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about 28 inches from row to row, and 20 inches from set to set, 

 giving a moderate dressing of fish manure. I then cover the 

 sets with a hoe, leaving a ridge over them. This method shields 

 the sets from the frost, and keeps them in a healthy state. I 

 make about three earthings after the Potato grows, leaving the 

 ridges when finished about 15 inches high. By this system I 

 find hardly any sets fail to grow, and there is very little 

 disease. 



Celery is sown the last week in February or the first in 

 March. When large enough to handle it is pricked off into 

 boxes, and towards the middle of May it is planted in trenches 

 about 4 inches deep. I like to dig my trench a month before 

 planting, so as to get the soil mellow. I give it about three 

 earthings, the first one being but a very slight one. 



Carrots : The soil is dug early in autumn a spit and a half deep, 

 and manured at the same time with good well-decomposed farm- 

 yard manure. The land is forked over again in March to make 

 it as fine as possible, and the seed sown about the third week in 

 April in rows 15 to 18 inches from row to row, according to 

 variety. 



Beet is treated about the same as Carrots. — James Lye, The 

 Gardens, Clyffe Hall, Market Lavington, Wilts. 



VI. 



The Tomatoes sent were all grown out of doors, some on a 

 south wall, but the bulk of them in the open, in shallow trenches. 

 No stimulant whatever has been used, with the exception of a 

 small quantity of old mushroom-bed soil, used at planting- time. 



The Peas were sown on June 18, which I have found to be 

 a safe date on which to sow late Peas in the counties of Berk- 

 shire and Kent for latest crop. I always use Marrowfats of the 

 British Queen and Ne Plus Ultra type. I have sent a small dish, 

 as a curiosity, of Sutton's Earliest Blue, sown on July 25 ; but 

 such late sowing is not advisable. Ne Plus Ultra and British 

 Queen here grow 8 and 9 feet high ; the manure principally used 

 for them is the product of dry-earth closets. 



The Seedling Potatoes are the result of a cross between 

 Covent Garden Perfection and Reading Russet. — Robebt 

 Maheb, The Gardens, Yattendon Court, near Newbury, Berks. 



