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planting, and slightly covered with earth to promote fermentation in the 

 green herbs, with an occasional watering from the tank, will produce excel- 

 lent celery. Give the late potatoes a final earthing up ; weed carrots and 

 onions ; earth up cabbage and cauliflowers ; rod the marrow-fat peas and 

 kidneybeans. The work may this month occupy twenty hours of the cot- 

 tager, or five hours every week, and about a day and a half of a young 

 person. The ground being now full, and No. 11. and the remainder of 

 No. 12. only to be cropped in August, it may be unnecessary to continue 

 the sketches of the ground, and it may be here observed that the division 

 under late potatoes and oats the one year will fall to be under the peas 

 and cabbage tribe next season. The vegetables in season in July are, early 

 potatoes, green peas, cauliflowers, cabbage, lettuce, onions, carrots, tur- 

 nips, &c. 



August. — The yellow turnips should be thinned to stand 4 in. apart in the 

 rows, and at least 18 in. between the rows early in August. The onion bed 

 should get the final weeding, and the alleys be dug, and planted with let- 

 tuce, of which a succession should be sown in the plant bed monthly. The 

 ground under the American potatoes will be getting partly clear, and 

 should be dug as the potatoes are taken up, to be planted with early York 

 cabbage, and winter lettuce, in the following month. The ground should 

 also be turned over as the cabbage and cauliflower are cut, or the cabbage 

 may be allowed to stand to give young tops till winter. The work in this 

 month will not exceed four hours each week, or a day and a half. The 

 vegetables in season are, American early potatoes, turnips, cabbage, cauli- 

 flowers, lettuce, peas, kidneybeans, carrots, &c. 



September. — The ground under early American potatoes will be 

 clear, and ready for cabbages and winter lettuce, which should be 

 planted by the middle of the month, by which time the late potatoes will 

 come in ; a few rows of leeks may be transplanted to blanch for winter 

 use. The oats will be cut down and stooked when ripe ; the grain should 

 be beat out and reserved for the poultry and pig, and the straw laid up for 

 litter. Take up onions as they ripen, and tie in bundles when dry. Keep 

 down weeds and earth up Savoys. Plant 1 fall with German greens for 

 winter, as soon as the ground is clear of late potatoes. The work this 

 month will occupy about five hours in each week, or about two days. The 

 vegetables in season the same as last month. 



October. — Plant to the extent of 3 more falls after late potatoes, 

 as soon as the ground is clear. Take up the whole by the 12th, and 

 pit or secure them in a house. The stems should be previously cut and 

 dug into the oat ground ; the roots may be thrown into the pigsty. Tak- 

 ing up the potatoes and digging the ground, and also the ground under 

 oats, will form the chief employment in October, and will at least occupy 

 the cottager about four days, or a day every week. Much, however, of the 

 time requisite for the garden may be spared in by-hours, if the cottager is a 

 mechanic, or if he gets employment by the day near home. The vegetables 

 in season are the same as in the two former months, with the exception of 

 peas and beans. 



November. — There is little to do. The yellow turnips should be 

 all taken up, and secured with a slight covering from the frost. Carrots 

 should also be stored up in sand or dry earth ; succory may be blanched 

 within doors, but the root, as coffee, will be of most value ; it sells in 

 Scotland as high as 6d. the root, of no great size, to be mixed with the 

 coffee of invalids, and consequently cannot be bad for people in health*. 

 Cleaning the ground of summer crops, as they are over, and winter digging 

 the same, will be easily performed in one day each month, from November 

 till March. 



I have gone thus minutely into the operations of every month, and 

 although on stubborn soils more time may be requisite, yet, on light easy 



