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quently, with the drainings of the dunghil, the va- 

 lue would be greatly enhanced. 



SECT. IV. 



HINTS ON THE ROTATION OF CROPS. 



IN farming, a proper rotation of crops forms one 

 of the best features of good management. So it does 

 in gardening ; but in the latter it cannot be so ef- 

 fectually followed out as in the former, for these 

 obvious reasons : A garden is smaller than a farm ; 

 the articles cultivated in it are more numerous, and 

 also more nearly related in kind, than those cultivat- 

 ed in the farm. A complete rotation can only be 

 followed through, and full justice done to the land, 

 when the crops that are to form the rotation are of 

 a nature quite different, and when the manner of 

 culture is distinct. Under certain crops, land is ex- 

 hausted, and under others, strength may be restored 

 to it. But in all cases, under good management, 

 land must be fed. It must not be laid down to rest 

 without having had, as one might say, its supper. 

 The practice of not manuring land, but managing by 

 what are termed resting crops* has been found fal- 

 lacious, and is now justly exploded. 



Market gardeners, who are generally good mana- 

 gers, and must of necessity make the most of their 

 ground, in order to maintain their families, and be 

 able to pay high rents, have found out the utility of 



