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Report 2ipon the Market-garden, and 
As to the quantity of manure used no definite conclusion could 
be arrived at, but it struck the Judges that the outlay for manure 
was not so large as upon other market-gardens which they had 
inspected. 
Cucumbers and marrows are grown to some extent upon this 
market-garden. These are set in rows from 4 to 4 J feet apart. 
In most cases the seed is put at once into the ground, and it is 
exceptional to have transplanted plants. Mr. Patch sometimes 
"spears" the seed by putting it in damp flannels before it is 
sown. If the weather is warm, this answers well, but a low 
temperature afterwards will fiequently arrest further vegetation. 
Between each row of cucumbers and marrows one drill of rye is 
set early in the spring, to serve as a shelter to the tender young 
plants against the wind. Strangers, seeing these solitary rows 
before the cucumbers and marrows have put in an appearance, 
wonder that they are set so wide apart, and think that the 
gardeners have taken a leaf out of the Lois Weedon system of 
corn-growing. These rows of rye are sometimes most prolific, 
and yield from 1^ to 2 qrs. per acre of corn. The marrows and 
cucumbers upon the land were very indifferent, like most of 
those that were seen by the Judges. Much of the seed had 
rotted, and the few plants that had struggled up were miserable 
specimens. 
All the fences on this holding were good, and remarkably 
well kept by the tenant. Gates and buildings were in good order. 
Though the management of the land was not so thorough as that 
of Mr. Gay's in Class I., nor so original as Mr. Lancaster's, there 
was sufficient merit to warrant the Judges' recommendation that 
Mr.^Patch should have the second prize. 
Class III. 
Makket-Gakden Fakm. 
Hie Market-garden Farm of the Trustees of the late J. C. Circuit. 
{Manager, Henry Sicann.) 
Many farmers in Essex, near London, grow vegetables most 
successfully in alternation with corn and other usual farm crops. 
They do not, as a rule, cultivate the smaller vegetables, nor 
herbs, nor salad stuff, but confine their attention mainly to 
cabbages, peas, onions, scarlet-runners, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, 
marrows, cucumbers, and French beans. Cabbages, coleworts, 
carrots, and onions are, however, chiefly grown. The soil here 
is not, in many respects, better suited for the growth of vege- 
tables than that in many other parts of England. The proxim.ity 
to the London markets, and the almost inexhaustible manure- 
