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THE AMATEUR’S KITCHEN CARDEN. 
We now provide for a few vegetables. On the border 9 is 
a good place for early rhubarb ; 10 will suit for kale, 11 for 
globe artichokes; 12 , 13 , and 26 , summer saladings ; 14 , 
asparagus; 15 , early peas; 16 , early lettuces; 17 ," spring 
seed-beds; 18 , second crop of peas; 19 , early horn carrots; 
20, early kidney beans; 21, sweet herbs that are often re- 
quired, and parsley ; 22, corresponding border of herbs, but 
comprising sorts not often required, and such as are to be cut 
for drying ; 23 , autumn seed-beds ; 24 , kidney beans ; 25 , 
successional lettuce. 
There still remains a space between 21 and 14 for peas, 
potatoes, cauliflowers, and other successional crops, for which 
thus far, we have only partially provided. But we may stop 
at this point, and it may be well to remark that as we 
mentioned potatoes, we should consider the main crop for 
winter supply quite out of place in this garden. A few first 
earlies of the finest quality may be grown, but the substantial 
family supply should be derived from another piece of ground 
without, or from the nearest market ; this garden is too small 
for potato growing, if a considerable variety of produce of 
fine quality is to be derived from it. 
The fruit and vegetable garden represented in the ac- 
companying plan has been designed for the production of a 
supply of the choicest as well as of the commoner kinds 
of fruits and vegetables sufficient for a moderate-size house- 
hold. There is nothing fanciful about it, for a complicated 
design was not desired, but it is so admirably adapted for 
the purpose, and so complete in all its details, that a brief 
description of it, with the aid of the plan, will be appropriate 
in this place. 
The garden is formed on an estate of about twelve acres, 
within thirty miles of London, and, as the space could not 
well be spared for an orchard, it was determined to make the 
kitchen garden large enough to accommodate a fair proportion 
of all the fruit trees usually planted in gardens. Against the 
walls we planted apricots, peaches, nectarines, pears, cherries, 
figs, and plums, and by the side of the walks pyramidal trees 
of all the fruits mentioned above, with the exception of the 
apricots, figs, peaches, and nectarines. The supply of fruit is 
consequently in favourable seasons most abundant for at least 
eight months out of every twelve, and there is no lack of 
vegetables throughout the year. 
