AND GUIDE TO THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 



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The Cultural Directions are by an eminent Horticulturist, many years one of the principal 

 writers of the " Gardeners' Chronicle." 



SELECT LIST 



OF 



VEGETABLE SEEDS; 



ARKANGED AND CLASSIFIED ON AN ENTIRELY NEW PRINCIPLE, AND 

 EMBRACING ALL THE BEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION, AND 'ESPECIALLY 

 SUCH AS ARE MOST APPROVED OF IN COVENT GARDEN MARKET, 

 WITH CULTURAL DIRECTIONS PRINTED ON EACH. 



ALL PACKETS OF VEGETABLE SEEDS SENT POST PAID OK OTHERWISE. 

 This arrangement has been made to enable purchasers, whose Gardens are limited, to have 

 from our Establishment, CAREIAGE FREE, really superior Seeds, both as regards their 

 growing q.ualities, and the pureness of the stocks from which they have been saved. 



Orders for Vegetable Seeds by Weight or Measure, amounting to 21s. and upwards, sent 

 Carriage Paid. 



for tbe (Suidance of Amatears, we have placetl in Black Type tlie best 

 varieties, anil only such as are most saitable to maintain a succession. 



Section I— LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



PEAS. 



I Selection of Soil and Situation. — For the production of heavy crops a deep loamy soil 

 : is most suitable ; but ordinary garden soil, if properly prepared and well manured, will yield 

 abundantly. To obtain an early crop, plant in the warmest and most sheltered situation at com- 

 mand, such as the south side of a wall or hedge ; but for the main crops choose an open airy situation. 

 And instead of devoting a portion of the garden to Peas alone, as is usually done, it will be found | 

 advantageous to plant them in single lines amongst other crops ; the plants will thus get more sun and : 

 air, and bear much longer and more abundantly. 



Preparatio.v of the Land. — Trench to the depth of two feet, and ridge up roughly, exposing j 

 as large a surface as possible to the action of the weather ; and this should be done as long before 

 sowing as convenient. The summer and autumn crops will require abundance of well-rotted manure ; 

 but the early crop will come sooner into bearing if planted in soil which is rather poor than otherwise, 

 but it should be deep and well pulverised. 



Time and Manner of Sowing. — The first crop should be sown about the middle of November, 

 the second early in January, putting in a small breadth of a second early variety at the same time ; I 

 and to secure a constant succession, sow once a fortnight from tiiis time till the end of June, or later 

 if necessary, to secure a supply as late as it can be obtained in any particular locality. After the 

 beginning of March sow the best kinds of Wrinkled Mai-rows ; but for the last two sowings use a free 

 cropping early, or second early variety, and sow in drills two inches deep and four inches wide, 

 covering the seed with friable soil, and, if possible, when the ground is sufficiently dry to work kindly. '■ 

 If sown in successive lines let the intervening space exceed the reputed height to which the variety 

 grows by six or twelve inches. As the seed for the earlier crops will be some time in the ground \ 

 j exposed to the depredations of mice, &c., it should be sown thickly to allow for losses ; and although ' 

 [ the strong growing branching kinds, which are used for the main crops, succeed better if sown 

 I thinly, it is prudent to guard against loss from various causes by sowing all rather thickly ; and if the 



plants are found to be too close when fairly started into free growth, they can easily be thinned out. 

 I • After Management. — When the plants are about two inches high, draw the soil neatly towards 

 them, and apply stakes of about the height to which the variety grows. Spruce fir or other evergreen 

 branches added will afibrd a useful shelter to early crops. Keep the ground between the rows well 

 [ stirred and free from weeds j and in dry weather mulch with manure for eighteen inches on each side 

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