KITCHEN-GARDEN PLANTS. ClIAP. 



applied to the producing of some crop for the latter end 

 of the Summer. Potatoes may be raised from seed, that 

 is to say, from the round pods that grow upon the haulm j 

 and from these seeds new varieties come, as in the case 

 of the Strawberry and many other things. The pods 

 should be gathered when dead ripe. The pods should be 

 squeezed to pieces, the seed separated from the pulp, 

 made very dry, kept dry till April or early in May. They 

 should be sowed in little drills, two feet asunder, the 

 plants thinned out to a foot apart, they should be culti- 

 vated like other potatoes, and they will produce little 

 roots fit to plant out for a crop next spring. Few peo- 

 ple take the pains to do this, the sorts being already as 

 numerous as the stones of the pavement of a large city. 



172. PUMPKIN. A thing little used in England, but 

 of great use in hot countries. They are of various sorts, 

 the fruit of some of which are of immense size, and the 

 fruit of others in very common use in the making of 

 pies, where, however, they require the assistance of 

 cream, sugar, nutmeg, and other spices ; but, when so 

 prepared, are very pleasant things. They are by no 

 means bad cattle food, especially for milch cows, during 

 two months in the fall of the year j and I have no doubt 

 that they would produce twenty ton weight upon an acre 

 of land. The time for planting them in the natural ground 

 is the middle of May. They are not so sensible of frost as 

 the Cucumber. They will be up in the first week of June, 

 and you have nothing to do but to keep the ground clear 

 of weeds. The best way is to put three or four seeds in a 

 ckimp, and put the clumps at ten or twelve feet apart. 

 The runners should have a proper direction given to 



