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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
The fact that these useful bedders may be raised most readily from 
seed cannot be known too widely amongst amateur gardeners. 
Bedding Calceolarias which have been wintered in boxes and 
pans should be planted out on a bed of soil, covered with a portable 
frame. When this is done, the frame can be removed after the 
second week in March, and used for more tender subjects, as the 
protection of a mat will be all that will be required by the calceo- 
larias after that period. The soil should be rich, and the plants put 
out at a distance of about four inches apart. After they have be- 
come somewhat established, nip off the points of the leading shoots, 
to encourage the development of side-shoots, and thus promote the 
production of bushy plants. 
now TO CROP THE KITCHEN GAllDEN. 
BY A KENTISH GARDENEE. 
obtain the greatest amount of profit from the kitchen 
garden a proper system of cropping must be resorted to 
— a system by which a change of crop will, as far as 
is practicable, be made every year, and the space pro- 
vided for the respective crops when the time arrives for 
sowing or planting them. That is to say, the quarter that was 
occupied with one class of vegetables last year should be planted 
with a totally distinct class this year, and the planting so arranged 
that as the time arrives for planting one crop a vacant plot shall be 
ready for it. If this is not done, the cultivator will at one period 
be unable to provide accommodation for all the crops he is anxious to 
grow, and at the other the garden will be half empty. I am perfectly 
aware that it is not possible to carry out a perfect system of rota- 
tion in small gardens, for the space will not admit of its being done ; 
but much more might be done than is the case at present in that 
direction. Having had a very lengthy experience in cropping the 
kitchen garden, I have ventured to offer a few hints on the subject, 
which I trust may prove useful to the amateur, for whose informa- 
tion they are penned. 
In the first place, allow me to observe that in "commencing ope- 
rations in the spring — for that is when the real work of the kitchen 
gardener begins — the mind must be carried somewhat in advance of 
the work, for we have not only to look at the effect of present 
arrangements, but we must endeavour to foresee how it will run in 
with the after-crops, and for facilitating the changing of the crops 
another year. Those who have neither mind nor eye to do so will 
soon get into a confusion, and render a systematic progress impos- 
sible for that year. With only a moderate amount of forethought, 
the cultivator can see one whole season before him ; and with only a 
little preparation, can select the sites for his crops another year. He 
should avoid distributing his crops in a haphazard manner, such as 
sowing his onions in small patches iu various parts of the garden, 
