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The Stachys tuberifera has not had a long trial, but it 

 promises fairly well, and produces a numerous crop of small 

 tubers, which make a nice dish for the table. It should be 

 grown in well-loosened soil, as the roots run to some distance 

 from the plant, and bear the tubers at the points. 



Generally speaking, carefully chosen kinds and properly 

 calculated quantities of vegetable seeds, combined with high culti- 

 vation and a well-regulated succession of crops, will furnish a full 

 supply of the best vegetables in season at all periods of the year. — 

 Malcolm Dunn, The Palace Gardens, Dalkeith, N.B. 



III. 



There has been no special method of cultivation in the pro- 

 duction of the Potatoes sent further than that the ground was 

 well worked by being forked several times during winter and 

 early spring. No manure was used, the ground having been 

 well manured for the previous crop. They were planted on 

 April 17-18. The soil is light and shallow, resting on a bed of 

 rock. — J. Hughes, gardener to Colonel Cartwright, Eydon Hall, 

 Northamptonshire. 



IV. 



The two varieties of Ridge Cucumber, Laxton's Open Air 

 and Laxton's Excelsior, were sown in drills on the level, on 

 strong cold land at Bedford, the former on the 16th and the 

 latter on the 15th May, and have been grown entirely without 

 any protection whatever. 



The fruits of Laxton's Open-air Tomato are from plants 

 put out in May last, between early Potatoes, and have been 

 ripened entirely in the open. 



The Sandy Prize Onions exhibited are from seed sown 

 broadcast at Bedford on January 18, and have had no artificial 

 treatment. — Thomas Laxton, Bedford. 



V. 



Our land is a sandy loam. For Potatoes I give the soil a 

 liberal coating of farmyard manure in November, and dig it in a 

 half- spit deep, and let the ground lie all the winter in a rough 

 state, and the first week in March fork it over to get the soil as 

 fine as possible. I generally plant in the end of March in drills 



