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3farket- Gardening. 
In garden-farming there are no strict rules with regard to the 
succession of crops ; the land is kept constantly under crop by 
sowing, or by replanting from seed-beds as fast as the fields are 
cleared. Cabbages may follow cabbages ; and the loading of 
the market-waggon proceeds in one part of the field while the 
plough-teams and planters are busily employed close by. On 
ordinary farms the necessity for a regular distribution of the 
labour of the farm throughout each period of the year, and for 
alternating the crops which produce manure with those which 
expend it, renders a tolerably regular rotation of crops desirable ; 
but, as garden-farms employ five or six times as much labour 
in proportion to their acreage, their reserve force is larger. 
Moreover, they are generally situated in the neighbourhood of 
large floating populations, and extra hands and extra horses, at 
certain seasons of the year, can easily be obtained. The rest is 
accomplished by the purchase of dung. 
An approach to a systematic rotation arises from the necessity 
of keeping delicate subjects — such as onions and potatoes — at 
a distance of several years apart. Having already given 
examples of such successions, a few remarks on double crops, 
and the periods of planting and removing them, will suffice to 
show what can be done in reference to economy of time and 
ground. 
In the London district potatoes are followed by a second 
crop. The earliest may be followed by cabbages, the later by 
savoys, and the latest by " collards," for bunching during the 
Avinter months, when cabbages are out of season. Cabbages 
should not be planted much later than the third week in June ; 
they will then be sent to market in November. Savoys are 
next pricked out from the seed-bed ; and collards, which are 
planted almost at any time when there is a piece of ground to 
spare, follow up to the end of August. 
On the 29th June and 6th July I was in fields where digging 
potatoes, manuring the land, ploughing, and planting cabbages, 
collards, and mangold, were proceeding without any delay. It 
was a little late for cabbages, but the frequent showers would, 
it was believed, enable the plants to start at once and rapidly. 
The land was dunged well and ploughed once with two horses, 
and the furrow was tender and crumbling. 
In dry seasons the transplanted crops require watering ; and 
although irrigation generally is neglected, it is sometimes very 
beneficial to garden crops. A 50-acre gardener, who grows 
celery, cauliflowers, and other crops, showed me a little rivulet 
running through his ground. It costs him 60Z. a year ; but, 
" when other grounds are scorched," he said, " my garden is 
