'with a System of Cropping indicated. 121 



mid thereby keeping from the general view the dirt and unclean- 

 liness attendant upon the operations connected with their culture. 

 Horseradish and Jerusalem artichokes, being rough crops, are 

 placed in the slip on the other side, together with the herb beds. 

 The asparagus beds occupy one of the divisions inside the walls, 

 viz., one eighth of the quarters. Having thus disposed of the 

 standing vegetables, there are twenty-one sections left for a 

 rotation of crops of the annual kinds, which, by properly dis- 

 posing, might be so arranged as that some of them might not be 

 sown upon the same ground for a series of five years ; while to 

 others of which a less number of crops are wanting, a longer 

 period would be given ; and for those of which only one crop 

 is wanted, such as onions, beets, and carrots, if one section 

 should be sufficient for each, a series of twenty-one years would 

 elapse before they would come on the same ground again. It 

 must here be noticed that I calculate upon the fruit borders for 

 early and late carrots, winter onions, earliest and latest crops of 

 dwarf peas, kidneybeans, with salads, &c. 



I might now proceed to go all through the sections, and fix 

 the crops for one year to each; but I do not see the utility of 

 this : for, as soils differ, there can be no standard fixed as to the 

 time that one crop can be removed to be succeeded by another. 

 A knowledge grounded upon experience of the nature of the 

 soil is, in this case, necessary : but, in order to simplify what I 

 mean, I will suppose that four sections should be necessary for 

 peas. I take, therefore, the first year, Nos. 1. 6. 11. and 16., 

 which, if each be subdivided, will give eight crops. The follow- 

 ing year I appropriate Nos. 2. 7. 12. and 17. to the same pur- 

 pose ; and the third year, Nos. 3. 8. 13. and 18.: and so on, 

 year after year, throughout the whole series of sections ; and the 

 same rule is to be observed, by properly disposing of all the 

 other different kinds of crops at the commencement of adopting 

 the above system ; at the same time calculating upon the crops 

 that are to succeed those that aie in the ground, according to 

 the season necessary for their cultivation. 



Cabbages, being a crop which some gardeners let remain in 

 the ground over year, for the sake of having greens the follow- 

 ing winter, seem to stand in the way of the above system being 

 strictly adhered to ; but, in a series of five years' cropping, there 

 will be one section over and above the number wanted, which, 

 with a little management, will afford the means of following up 

 the system without its being materially deranged. 



Having thus ventured to give the result of my considerations 

 upon the subject in view, together v\'ith a plan which I conceive 

 may, at least partially, answer the purpose intended, I shall be 

 most happy to see it farther elucidated, and brought to greater 

 perfection by any of your correspondents who may feel inclined 



