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received similar treatment. The soil was loamy and had been 

 highly manured the previous year for a variety of tap-rooted ve- 

 getables ; no additional manui'e was used, excepting a moderate 

 top-dressing of wood ashes. Subsequent to planting, next year, 

 I purpose growing chiefly the foreign seed this year acclimated. 



While speaking of this, valuable product, it may not be out of 

 place to mention that for the last two years I have succeeded in 

 raising two crops of early Sovereign potatoes, and one-third of a 

 crop of Red-top turneps from the same ground during one season 

 by the following method of planting : As early in spring as the 

 condition of the ground will permit ; the first planting is made 

 in drills three feet apart ; from the first to the tenth of June, ac- 

 cording to the forwardness of the first, I put in the second be- 

 tween the rows, opposite the centre of the space between the first 

 planting. About two weeks elapses before they appear above 

 ground, and a fortnight more before attaining any important size, 

 which brings them into the early part of July, at which time the 

 first crop is ready to be taken off, leaving the entire space for the 

 second. Toward the latter part of August we find between the 

 rows of potatoes room to drill in turnep seed, which, before re- 

 quiring more space, the second crop of potatoes is at matmity, 

 which wlien taken off leaves the entire ground for the turneps. 

 By this mode of planting about four weeks is saved for the second 

 crop, to which the success of the experiment may be attributed. 



Notwithstanding there are several varieties of potatoes which 

 are a few days earlier, I still prefer the Sovereign. With me 

 they have kept as well through winter as the later kinds, and 

 have never been afiected with the rot. 



Garden Products. 



The basis of successful cultivation being dependent on the con- 

 dition of the soil, which, especially with land that has been 

 worked for a long period of years, is attributable to a system of 

 manuring as well as the quantity of manure applied. It is of 

 the first importance that a judicious preparation of the soil should 

 be adopted, and as every tiller of the ground who is desirous, with 



