ROTATION CROPS FOR ALLOTMENTS. 
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tundity observable in the oak, elm, beech, 
chestnut, and others ; for no other deciduous 
tree has the same habit. 
As a park ornament it has its uses; but, as 
Loudon has well observed, it is a dangerous 
tree in the hands of those who have not well 
studied the art of landscape composition. 
The propagation of this tree is so simple, 
and so generally known, that it is unnecessary 
to dwell upon this point. It will grow almost 
anywhere, either by cuttings, layers, suckers, 
or seeds, and has the advantage over many 
others in suffering but little from being trans- 
planted when of a large size. 
ROTATION CROPS FOR ALLOTMENTS. 
The most usual way in which allotments 
are disposed is as under; the crops returning 
in rotation every seven years. Thus, the first 
division, now in wheat, barley, or oats, is fol- 
lowed by clover ; then by potatoes, taken off 
early enough to be followed by another crop 
in the same year, generally white turnips or 
BT JAMES GRIGOR. 
rape ; and so on, until No. 7 is reached, which 
will, of course, be succeeded by barley, &c. as 
before. It is to be understood that the crops 
extend from side to side of the field-table, the 
road being in the middle, so as to afford easy 
access with manure both to the right and lett 
hand : — 
Wheat, Barley, or Oats, 
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laid down with Clover, 
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Clover 
for stall-feeding. 
Potatoes, followed, in August, 
by Turnips or Rape. 
Late 
Potatoes. 
Tares cut in spring 1 , and 
followed by Turnips. 
Late or 
Winler Potatoes. 
Turnips. 
Turnips. 
Carrots, 
Cabbages, &c. 
In very small allotments, the usual mode is 
to have one moiety in wheat, and the other in 
green crops, such as potatoes, cabbages, peas, 
beans, turnips, carrots, mangold-wurtzel, &c, 
changing the crops every year. 
Wheat, sow from 20th October till Novem- 
ber 16, dibbled or in drills: if in drills, let 
them be 6 inches apart, and 21- inches deep. 
In dibbling, steep your seed in urine, and use 
plenty of rape-dust to make it part. The 
rows 6 inches apart, and 6 inches distant, and 
3 inches deep, 3 seeds in each hole, or as near 
io 3 as possible. If dibbled, one bushel per acre. 
Oats, sow March 15, in drills 6 inches 
apart ; 3 bushels of common manure to a rod. 
Barley, sow April 15, at the rate of 2 
bushels per acre. 
Beans, sow February 10, in rows 18 inches 
apart, and 3 inches asunder, covering them 
3 inches deep. 
Peas, which should follow corn-crops, 15th 
February, in drills, 8 or 9 inches apart, 1 
bushel to j acre. 
Turnips, a few in May, and throughout 
June and July, \ lb. to j acre. 
Carrots, 16th March, in drills 12 inches 
apart. Give no manure, but let them follow 
a crop which had been richly manured. 
Ground dug two spits deep is the fittest for 
them. Seed, 4 lbs. per acre. 
Mangold-Wurtzel, in rows 2 feet apart, and 
1 foot distant in the rows. A good plan is to 
dibble the seeds, dropping 3 or 4 seeds in one 
hole. May 6th is the time. 
Potatoes, any time in November, 12 inches 
deep, the lines about 3 feet apart. Short- 
growing, early sorts, may be put in lines 2 
feet apart. 
Cabbage, sow in beds August 1> and plant 
them out in November. 
