mid Cottage Economy. 

 Plan 1. 



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1. Savoys ; 2, German greens ; 3, winter dug ; 4, broccoli ; 5, early cabbage j 6, late greens ; 

 7, winter dug. 



March. — In the first week of March the cottager will dig 2 falls, to be 

 sown with beans, onions, leeks, carrots, and succory. The onions and 

 leeks may occupy half a fall, and should be dunged with a compost of soot 

 and dung from the poultry-yard, previously prepared. Some seeds of the 

 magnum bonum lettuce may be dropped into the onion bed to be trans- 

 planted in May. The leeks may occupy a small space, as they will also be 

 transplanted ; the carrots and succory need not be sown till near the end of 

 the month. Half a fall may be planted with the long-podded bean, at 

 18 in. distance between the rows, and 6 in. between the plants ; 2 falls 

 adjoining may be dunged with four barrow-loads from the pigsty, for 

 early ash-leaved potatoes, with a double row next the carrot ground of 

 early dwarf peas. This, with dunging, planting, and sowing, will require 

 ten hours of the cottager's time. The second week he will dig 4 falls of 

 the other division, and sow with the common oat ; as this will not require 

 to be so finely broken, and no dung to carry, the digging, sowing, and raking 

 will occupy eight hours. 



The third week he will throw out the savoy roots, and dig half a fall for 

 plants of cabbage, cauliflower, greens, savoys, broccoli, a few radishes and 

 lettuce to be transplanted, leaving a small piece of ground for sowing a 

 succession of lettuce ; this operation will occupy two hours. 



The fourth week he will pass 2 falls for American early potatoes, and dig 

 1 fall for early cabbages, to be planted at 20 in. between the rows, and 18 in. 

 plant from plant. Sowing carrots and succory will take three hours' work. 



The vegetables in season in March are, late potatoes, yellow turnips, 

 early broccoli, greens, and winter lettuce. At the beginning of April the 

 ground will stand thus : — 



Plan 2. 



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1 plant bed : 2, empty ; 3, German greens in use ; 4, empty ; 5, oats ; 6, broccoli in use ; 7, 

 early cabbage, the winter lettuce in use ; 8, late greens ; 9, early cabbage ; 10, empty ; 11, early 

 potatoes, and a row of peas ; 12, onions, carrots, succory, and beans. The time employed in 

 March is twenty-three hours. ; 



