2^.~0n Vegetable 



By 

 Trevor Monmouth. 



Culture. 



To obtain tender vegetables of a sufficiently high quality to 

 give perfect satisfaction at home, or to win prizes at horticultural 

 exhibitions, the soil must in the first instance be properly pre- 

 pared by deep digging or trenching and liberal treatment with 

 good manure. As regards trenching, the mode in which it 

 ought to be done depends almost entirely on the character of 

 the soil and sub-soil. With a heavy soil and a cold, tenacious 

 sub-soil, bastard trenching is the best : this consists of turning 

 over the lower spit and mixing therewith strawy manure, 

 road-scrapings, or vegetable refuse Such treatment will improve 

 its character, and make it more porous, while the surface soil 

 is still retained on the top, leaving it as rough as possible. On 

 soil of a loamy nature several feet deep it is a good plan to 

 turn the whole right over to the depth of 2ft., i.e., bringing the 

 bottom to the surface and placing the surface soil at the bottom, 

 incorporating manure at the same time. In this way a fine 

 root-run is provided for the vegetables, the drainage is improved, 



