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any chance, he could always in the above named way 

 easily get others ; and because there were here so many 

 who drove this trade, so it was also easy to get such 

 young trees for a moderate price. The same thing is true 

 of market garden produce. Some nurserymen or market 

 gardeners lay themselves out for all kind of market- 

 garden produce, to keep for sale, others trouble them- 

 selves only about some few, which they sow in large 

 quantities, and cultivate well. As we to-day wandered 

 out about Chelsea, we saw whole tracts, like very large 

 arable fields, sown only with beans, cabbages, and aspa- 

 ragus. The beans were all of the kind which are here 

 called Broad Windsor Beans. They were all sown in 

 rows, in broadland. The breadth between each row was 

 21 inches, and often only i foot between the rows ; and 

 the distance between the bean plants in each row, 9 inches 

 to 1 foot. They were now everywhere in flower. A boy 

 went with a little iron hoe, jam hacka, and cleared away 

 the weeds between the rows, of which weeds Hvit- 

 roten [T. repens], was the principal and most. In some 

 places they had planted several kinds of cabbages be- 

 tween the rows. In other places there were long beds 

 3 feet to 4 feet broad, all sown with asparagus. There I 

 noticed a new contrivance [T. I. P. 388], which I had not 

 seen before, viz., how they collected a number of necks of 

 broken bottles. Such a bottle neck was set on each aspa- 

 ragus plant, Sparis stand, so that the asparagus stood 

 and grew up through the neck. The end of the neck was 

 open so that the air had free access to the asparagus. 

 When the sun shone on these glass necks, the glass per- 

 force became very hot, through which the temperature 

 inside the glass or neck was considerably increased, in 

 consequence of which the asparagus came to push up all 

 the quicker, and made haste to grow. All the asparagus 

 plants which were inside these bottle necks were about 



