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-the depth of half an inch. The seed germinates very slowly, often 

 taking several weeks, and the drills should be frequently watered till 



the young plants are well above the ground. 



Quantity of Seed. — Half an ounce will sow a drill one chain in length. 



Varieties. Carters' 1 Ferned -leaved, price 1/6 per ounce, Carters 9 

 Perpetual, price 1/ per packet, Champion Moss-Curled, price, 1/ per 

 ounce, Co vent Garden Garnishing, price, 9d. per ounce. Double Curled, 

 price, 4d. per ounce, Henderson s Emerald, price 10 cents per ounce. 



Mustard and Cress. 



Sow once every 10 days from beginning of September, to end of Feb- 

 ruarv, to keep up a continual supply. 



No plants are more easy to grow than these ; they may be sown in 

 any kind of soil , but preferably in a moist and shaded position, with 

 the certainty of having plants fit to cut in a couple of weeks. Sow 

 each broadcast in a bed, and rake lightly over. 



Quantity of seed required. — One ounce of seed will sow a bed 16 feet 

 by 4 feet. 



Varieties. Mustard. Finest White, Brown or Black, New Chinese. 

 Prices of seed, English, 3d. & 4d., per ounce or 1/3 per pint, except 

 New Chinese, which is 2/ per pint. American, 5 cents per ounce or 40 

 .cents, and §1 per lb. 



Cress, Varieties : — Plain or Common, Golden. — -A delicious salad — 

 Carters' Cut and Come Again, Australian. 



Prices of Seed : — English, 3d. and 4d., per ounce ; American, 10 to 15 

 cents per ounce. 



Potatoes. 



Plant from October to J anuary to have new Potatoes ready for market 

 from end of December or beginning of January to April. 



Soil. — Potatoes will grow in almost any kind of soil with good cul- 

 tivation, but a good friable loam, rather light than otherwise, and free 

 from stagnant water is the best. Good potatoes are produced in light 

 sandy soil, but a liberal supply of manure is necessary to ensure a 

 heavy crop. 



Manure. — The quantity, and kind of manure to be employed must 

 depend on the nature of the soil, to a light sandy soil, a liberal supply 

 of thoroughly decomposed manure should be given, but if the soil is of 

 a heavy, damp nature, half rotted long manure is best. In hot dry 

 soils, cow dung, when it can be obtained, is preferable, as it retains 

 more moisture than stable manure, but it should be well mixed with 

 litter. Pig's dung is too powerful in an unmixed state, but when mixed 

 with about twice its own bulk of earth it forms an excellent manure. 

 Generally speaking, however, for the hills or Jamaica farm-yard manure, 

 that is the excrements, both solid and liquid, of the various animals 

 kept about a place, mixed with litter and refuse and allowed to decom- 

 pose, is probably the best. 



" Seed" or Sets. — There is some difference in opinion as to whether 

 the tubers should be planted whole or cut, but from experiments made 

 in the Gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick, London, 

 it was found on the mean of two plantations that the produce from cut 

 sets exceeded that from whole tubers by nearly one ton per acre. Good 

 sized tubers are considered best for sets. The eyes in the Potato are 



