ROTATION OF CROPS. 



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The following is also a very good rotation . 



1. The cabbage tribe to be followed by 



2. Alliaceous plants, as onions, leeks, &c., to be followed 

 by legumes, as beans or peas. Peas may be followed the 

 same year with celery. 



3. Tap-rooted plants, as carrots, beets, parsnips 



4. Surface roots, as onions, potatoes, turnips. 



5. Celery, endive, lettuce, spinach, &c. 



Celery is excellent to precede asparagus, onions, cauli- 

 flowers, or turnips ; old asparagus beds for carrots, pota- 

 toes, &c. ; strawberries, and raspberries for the cabbage 

 tribe ; cabbage for the tap-rooted plants ; potatoes for the 

 cabbage tribe. 



In these rotations it is not necessary to apply manure 

 to every crop. For the bulbous roots as the onion, plants 

 cultivated for their leaves as spinach and asparagus, the 

 ground can scarcely be too rich, and the bulk of the ma- 

 nures may be applied to them and the cabbage and tur- 

 nip crops, while for plants raised for seed it is best that 

 the foliage should not be stimulated into too great luxu- 

 riance. 



Sub-succession. — To get the highest possible results 

 from a garden, there must be not only a general rotation 

 of crops year by year, but a number of sub-successions 

 each year, as fast as the crops are removed. One-fourth 

 of an acre thoroughly manured and kept perfectly free 

 from weeds, and as fast as one crop is removed another 

 placed upon the ground, will yield more than an acre 

 managed in the common way. 



For instance, late in the fall a portion of the garden 

 may be occupied with spinach ; this should be heavily 

 manured, and may keep the ground until time to plant 

 melons and other vines, when just enough of the ground 

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