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spinach, beet, is perfectly white, and is cooked like 

 seakale. The green blade can be used as spinach. 



Couve Tfonchuda. — Is used mucb in the same 

 way as seakale beet. Cut the lower leaves first, 

 and use the thick fleshy leaf-stalks ; when the 

 lower leaves are done, there still remains very 

 good cabbage on the top. Sutton calls it " rather 

 tender," but it is not always necessary to protect 

 it in winter. 



It will be found useful to obtain a large chart 

 of the vegetables usually grown, and the time of 

 sowing, planting, and cutting. This can be ob- 

 tained from the Stores (Book department). 



If a rough, plan of the garden can be obtained, 

 it will be of help ; if not, a copy book should be 

 bought, and on one page a rough, sketch made 

 of each plot, with the length and breadth 

 marked upon it. This need not necessarily be 

 drawn to scale. Upon the opposite page should 

 be put the crop which is on the ground. Probably 

 someone can supply information as to what crop 

 was previously there, and when the ground was 

 last trenched and manured. Any notes that can 

 be made in this respect will be useful. It is a 

 good plan to divide the garden under cultivation 

 roughly into four quarters, disregarding, for the 

 moment, that part which is under permanent crops, 

 such as asparagus, rhubarb, etc. By trenching 



