THE AMATEUR’S KITCHEN GARDEN. 
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only average one pound each, we may expect an annual 
supply of 336 lbs. of grapes, so we may set down our ultimate 
expectations at from 300 to 400 lbs. 
The beds marked b are to be cultivated the whole year 
round with useful vegetables, one important part of the 
routine being to plant them all in autumn with cauliflowers, 
lettuce, endive, sweet herbs, or the hardier kinds of bedding 
plants. As soon as the weather becomes wintry, the glass 
frames are to be removed from the vines and placed over these 
beds ; they are to be placed on bricks, of course, to allow of 
ventilation, and during very severe weather mats must be put 
over, and the ventilating holes must be stopped with moss or 
straw, or half bricks inserted. A total length of 168 feet of 
protected beds would be of immense value to those who prize 
early cauliflowers, lettuces, and such other subjects as would 
be kept through the winter in them. Instead of having to 
lift and replant them, as is the case when we winter them in 
frames, they would simply remain where planted in autumn, 
the lights being removed from about the end of April or later, 
according to the state of the weather. This would expedite 
the maturation of the crop considerably, as there would be no 
check from lifting or sudden exposure of protected plants to 
cold winds, which is the common case in kitchen garden 
routine, for the frames would be put on the cauliflowers at 
night and on the vines all day, at that critical season when 
winter and spring are contending for the mastery. The only 
effect of such treatment would be to retard, not injure the 
vines ; and as such things as hardy lettuces and sweet herbs 
of most kinds do not need protecting so late in the season as 
cauliflowers, vines desired to be started early might have their 
glasses put on about the first week in April. 
The diagram contains only ten instead of twelve com- 
partments, the space at command for it, necessitating the 
removal of two. 
Nectarines and Peaches require substantial borders and 
brick walls ; to grow them as standards or free bushes is not 
advisable, for it is only about once in seven years on an average 
that they ripen their fruit fairly well in any position unless 
aided by a wall. We have for many years past grown such 
fine Royal George Peaches and Elruge Nectarines on east 
walls exposed to open meadows in the cold valley of the Lea, 
that we cannot consistently object to east walls in any district 
