VIL 



A CHAT IN THE KITCHEN GAEDEN. 



October, 1849. 



EDITOR. We find you, as usual, in your kitchen gai'den. 

 Admirable as all the rest of your place' is, your own fancy 

 seems to centre here. Do you find the esculents the most satisfac- 

 tory of your various departments of culture? 



Sujbscriber, Not exactly that ; but J find while the shrubbe^, 

 the lawn, the flowers, and even the fruit-trees, are well cared for 

 and made much of by my family and my gardener,' the kitchen 

 garden is treated merely as a necessity. Now, as I estimate very 

 highly the value of variety aijd excellence 4n our culinary vegeta- 

 bles, I take no little interest in Iny kitchen garden^ so that at last it , 

 has'become a sort of hobby with me. 



Ed. We see e'vddences of that all around us. Indeed, we 

 scarcely remember any place where so large a variety of excellent 

 -Vegetables are grown as here. Artichokes, endive, sea-kale, oele- 

 ■rjac, ■winter melons and mushrooms, and many other good and rare 

 things, in addition to what we usually find in country gardens. 



Sub. And what a climate ours is for gro'wing fine vegetables. 

 From common cab^bages, that 'will thrive in the coldest cjimate, to 

 egg-plants,' melons and tonlatoes, that need a tropical sun,-^all may 

 be so easily had for tl^e trouble of easy culture in the open air ; 

 and yet, strange to say, three-fourths of all country folks, blessed 

 wit^i land in fee simple, are actually i^oraht of the luxury of good 

 ■vegetables, and content' theniselves with potatoes, peas, beans and 



