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On Cottage Gardening. 



the red, Battersea, and Barnes varieties ; savoys, borecole, Brus- 

 sels sprouts, heet, salsify, scorzonera, skirret, orange and Al- 

 tringham carrots, lettuce, small salad, spinach, onions, leeks, 

 celery, celeriac, broccoli of sorts, cauliflower about the 20th; 

 turnips, radish, the turnip-rooted, and black and white Spanish. 

 Plant potatoes for principal crop ; also new beds of asparagus, 

 artichokes, cuttings of the roots of sea-kail, rhubarb, and other 

 plants which may be propagated by division of the roots. Trans- 

 j^lant lettuce, cabbage, and all other seedlings requiring removal ; 

 hoe and thin spinach, turnips, and all drilled crops that stand too 

 thick. Mould up peas, beans, and other rowed plants ; and stick 

 peas when 6 inches high, and top beans if the fly appears. 



May. — Sow scarlet-runner, kidney beans, and dwarfs, on a 

 warm border ; also peas and beans to succeed former sowings ; 

 purple Cape broccoli and late purple and white ditto, cabbage to 

 come in as coleworts, turnips and carrots to draw young ; cu- 

 cumbers for pickling, lettuce of sorts, and scorzonera, salsify, and 

 skirret, if omitted last month. Plant late potatoes. Transplant 

 cabbage, and prick out in nursery beds celery, cauliflower, 

 broccoli, &c., and ridge out cucumbers, the plants being previously 

 raised on heat. Hoe among all crops to destroy weeds and 

 loosen the surface. 



June. — Sow vegetable-marrow, gourds, and pumpkins; Prus- 

 sian-blue and Knight's marrow peas may still be tried, and the 

 pearl variety for the latest crop ; sow again runner and dwarf 

 kidney beans, turnips for autumn use, and endive of sorts for main 

 crops ; potatoes may still be planted ; cabbage, broccoli, borecole 

 of sorts, and savoys, may be rowed out for good ; celery also may 

 be put in trenches, and row out leeks into their final stations. 

 Draw earth to drilled crops ; stick peas and runner beans ; de- 

 stroy weeds ; and gather flowers for drying. 



July. — Sow broccoli for late crops, and dwarf kidney-beans 

 endive twice, and small salad twice ; lettuce on a north border ; 

 mazagan and white-blossomed beans for late crops ; cabbage for 

 winter coleworts ; turnips for succession ; and Spanish radish. 

 Transplant cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, savoys, and celery, into 

 trenches ; prick out celery seedlings, lettuce, and endive ; attend 

 to the ridged cucumbers and picklers, giving water if necessary, 

 and securing the vines with hooks ; pull onions, shallot, and garlic, 

 if done growing ; stick peas and runners. Mould up potatoes, 

 cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower ; gather herbs for drying, and hoe 

 up weeds. 



August. — In the first week so?d early York, early dwarf, and 

 sugar-loaf Cabbage, onions, prickly-seeded spinach, radish, lettuce 

 of sorts, and cauliflower, about the 22nd day. Transplant 

 broccoli, cabbage, savoys, Brussels-sprouts, borecole, celery into 



