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CULINARY OR KITCHEN GARDEN. 



they usually are met "with, occupying 

 more room, less conveniently protected, 

 exposed to having their roots mutilated 

 by digging about them, and, last of all, 

 affording by their removal no useful rota- 

 tion. The other perennial crops may be 

 planted next to them, and, if allowed to 

 remain, either to be forced on the ground, 

 (as is usually done in the case of the sea- 

 kale and rhubarb in particular, and in 

 that of the asparagus occasionally), or to be 

 allowed to come in at their natural sea- 

 son, then the whole quarter may be de- 

 stroyed at once (presuming a succession 

 is established in that adjoining), and the 

 ground they occupied cropped with 

 annual crops, for which the manurial 

 applications hitherto given will render it 

 exceedingly fit, particularly for carrots, 

 onions, &c, which seldom succeed on 

 newly-manured ground. That, however, 

 occupied with the gooseberries, currants, 

 and raspberries, being less enriched, must 

 now have manure applied to it. The 

 strawberry crop will now, by about the 

 seventh year, have travelled, by yearly 

 changes, to the further side of the adjoin- 

 ing quarter, followed up by the succes- 

 sional crops of sea-kale, asparagus, and 

 rhubarb, and, last of all, by currants, 

 gooseberries, and raspberries. In this 

 way, these crops may be made to circulate 

 round the quarters or divisions of the 

 main garden ; and if the changes appear 

 to be too rapid, an occasional shift to the 

 slips may be had recourse to. 



No doubt an excellent rotation is 

 afforded, when a portion of these crops is 

 taken up annually for forcing, the ground 

 vacated being next occupied with annual 

 crops ; but this rotation, although equally 

 good in principle, is less systematic in 

 appearance. 



The extent of ground occupied by any one 

 species of esculent must ever depend on 

 the quantity of the particular sort re- 

 quired to meet the demand. The follow- 

 ing is about the proportions: Pease occupy, 

 in general, the largest breadth in most 

 gardens ; always so, when the family are 

 resident in the country ; somewhat less, 

 when they only arrive about the 1st of 

 August (a very usual period), as crops 

 before that are not required. The cab- 

 bage tribe comes next in order, and vrould 

 occupy the larger space, were it not that 

 the crops for the latter end of winter and 



early spring are planted on the ground 

 from which the first crops of pease have 

 been gathered. Turnips would stand 

 next, were it not that asparagus, sea-kale, 

 and rhubarb, to be forced during winter 

 on the taking-up principle, require to be 

 extensively grown, on account of the roots 

 being destroyed when the crop is gathered; 

 and this is more especially the case when 

 a family requires them throughout the 

 winter and in spring from the open 

 ground also. Potatoes would rank next, 

 were it expedient to grow them in gar- 

 dens (beyond the early crops), which it 

 is not ; for, from some hitherto unex- 

 plained cause, they never are of so good 

 a quality in richly-manured gardens, as 

 in the less highly manured fields. Car- 

 rots, leeks, and onions follow — the former, 

 however, being a precarious crop. Celery 

 and spinach would occupy as large a 

 space as the last, were it not that the 

 latter, particularly for winter crops, which 

 are the principal, is not sown till the 

 latter end of July or beginning of August, 

 on ground from which probably the early 

 crop of pease has been removed. Garden 

 and kidney beans, and scarlet runners, 

 follow — the two latter having a preference, 

 in most gardens, to the former. Parsnips, 

 globe artichoke, and beet are the next in 

 order, followed by parsley, endive, salsify, 

 skirret, scorzonera, and Jerusalem arti- 

 chokes; garlic, shallot, rocambole, succory, 

 chervil, and all manner of pot and sweet 

 herbs, find a place in the olitory or herb- 

 garden ; and lastly, lettuce, of which there 

 is a perpetual sowing and planting, being 

 usually, unless grown upon a very large 

 scale, accommodated with room amongst 

 other crops, as its duration in sumr 

 mer is short — and during winter it is 

 placed in sheltered places, by the bottoms 

 of walls, &c. 



§ 3.— THE QUANTITIES OF SEEDS AND 

 EOOTS NECESSAKY TO CHOP A GAR- 

 DEN. 



The young gardener will find himself, 

 upon taking charge of a garden for the 

 first time, in a much greater dilemma, 

 when about to make up his seed order 

 for the ensuing year, than in any other 

 part of his charge. To order without 

 some certain knowledge of the quantities 



