820 Notes on the Bokhara Clover. 



June. Plant cauliflowers, savoys, German greens, leeks. Train and nail 

 wall and espalier trees. 



July. Sow yellow turnips for a winter crop ; plant cauliflower and cole- 

 worts. Towards the end of the month attention must be paid to keeping 

 down weeds. 



August. Sow winter onions, cabbages, savoys, and German greens, about 

 the middle of the month. For planting out in spring, coleworts may still be 

 planted. 



September. Lift onions and lay them on the border to dry. Strawberries 

 may be planted for a crop next season. 



October. Plant early cabbages for use in the spring. 



November. Plant trees and bushes where they are required. Turn up 

 vacant ground to the frost. Make compost for the garden where it can be 

 done. 



December. Continue trenching and digging where it can be done. Plant 

 in mild weather, if it was omitted last month. 



More might have been said had time and the nature of the article permitted 

 it, but I cannot conclude without adding a word or two respecting the keeping 

 of cottage gardens. In" general they are but indifferently kept. Weeds are 

 often allowed to shed their seeds, which prove a lasting scourge to the garden, 

 and a great loss to the cottager. Timely hoeing, and weeding and cleansing, 

 would prevent a great number of excuses being made, when visitors come ; 

 and it adds greatly to the pleasure of a garden, to be enabled to look at it 

 when it is neat and clean. There is as much difference between the two, as 

 there is between a trollop and a tidy country lass. But where much compe- 

 tition is among cottagers for neat gardens, I am convinced, from the oppor- 

 tunities I have had in visiting these gardens, that it may be carried to an 

 injurious extent. One thing I have observed for several years: those who 

 had prizes awarded for neat gardens seldom received a prize for the best ve- 

 getables. I can account for it in no other way than that there was too much 

 raking and too little hoeing. When the rake is much used, a crust is ready 

 to form upon the surface of the ground ; but when hoeing is practised, the 

 roots receive the benefit of atmospheric influence, which the modern disco- 

 veries in chemistry assert to be of great importance to vegetation. 



West Plean, January 6. 1842. 



Art. X. Notes on the Bokhara Clover. By H. I. C. Blake. 



Having derived many little improvements in gardening through 

 the channel of your Magazine, I have taken the liberty of inform- 

 ing your readers of the manner in which the Bokhara clover 

 grew with me last year. Mr. Gorrie of Annat Cottage was so 

 kind as to send me some seeds last year, and I planted a few in 

 my garden, and a few in a pot : those in a pot I forwarded a 

 little by placing it in a small greenhouse, and, when of a suffi- 

 cient size, turned out one in my garden, throwing away the 

 remainder. It grew luxuriantly during the summer, and attained 

 the height of 6 ft., branching out all around it full 3 ft. each 

 way. The scent of it is very sweet after a shower. I tried 

 it with a pony of mine, who would not touch it ; also a donkey ; 

 but I have seen cart-horses eat it. I think April is the best 

 time to sow it ; and it should be cut when about 2 ft. high, other- 



