PRODUCTIVE FAMILY GARDENING. 
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As soon as they have attained the necessary- 
strength, begin to plant some out, either be- 
tween crops of other things that are coming 
off, or in quarters devoted to them ; but Ave 
are always anxious, as a row of anything is 
off that will admit of being replaced, to get 
something on the ground. Brocoli thus put 
out in a moderate garden, as room is made by 
other things coming off, must come in well 
at some time or other, and if one season misses 
all cannot. As soon as the plants which are 
put out for good, begin to grow, the earth 
ought to be drawn to the roots, and after this, 
little or no care is necessary. 
ENDIVE. 
This is a hardy salad, and may be culti- 
vated in small quantities with advantage, 
sown in April, May, and June, and planted 
out when large enough on a bank sloping to 
the south : it is a fine wholesome salad with 
beet-root and lettuce, or with red cabbage. 
When the plants are large enough these must 
be blanched by tying them up like lettuces, 
or by laying tiles or slates, or flat pieces of 
board, on them : one foot apart all over the bed 
would do for distance at planting out, and it 
is very little trouble. 
SEA KALE. 
Another luxury ; little or no trouble when 
cultivated for its proper season, and only costly 
when forced. For instance, many acres are 
grown that are merely put out in rows and 
earthed up. When the sprouts come forward 
they break the earth on the surface, the culti- 
vator then removes the earth low enough to 
enable him to cut off the shoots down clean 
to the crown of the plants. Here, as neither 
fire-heat nor dung is used, it cannot be said 
to cost much. The proper mode of cultiva- 
tion is to sow the seed three or four in a spot, 
these spots being eighteen inches apart in the 
rows, and the rows three feet apart. When 
they have vegetated, keep the strongest and 
take away the others, which may be trans- 
planted in continuation after the same plan, 
and, if carefully done, will not be much be- 
hind those that have not been disturbed. 
They may grow on for three seasons with 
nothing more than the earth drawn up to the 
roots, and being kept clear of weeds. Now 
if you have large flower-pots, or kale-pots, 
they may at Christmas be covered over the 
individual plants, and be surrounded by dung 
from the stable or leaves, the plants will 
shoot much sooner than if they were only 
earthed up ; but the least trouble is to earth 
up the rows into a flat-topped bank by digging 
an eighteen-ineh trench between the rows 
and putting the soil that comes out upon the 
plants, covering them eight inches. In the 
spring the plants begin to shoot, and when 
they break the surface it is known that the 
shoots are long enough for the purpose, and 
that they may be uncovered and cut, but 
those under the pots covered with dung or 
leaves will have been forward enough to cut 
weeks before. Sea kale, however, is not an 
economical vegetable, because the ground, 
like an asparagus-bed, is occupied the year 
round for one crop. This can be in part 
counteracted by cropping between the rows 
as soon as the kale is cut, for the bank is then 
levelled, the plants allowed to grow till the 
autumn, and all this time lettuces may be 
planted out and got off the ground ; or spin- 
ach, or a couple or three drills of turnips 
sowed directly the kale is done with, will 
come well into use before the plants need be 
earthed up again. 
CUCUMBER AND VEGETABLE-MARROW. 
If you can sow in a hot-bed a few seeds of 
cucumber and gourds to use as vegetable- 
marrow, and have a spare place in a south 
border to plant them, the chances are that you 
get a good supply of both. Sow them in 
April ; grow them singly in pots till the second 
week in June, stopping the shoots at the 
second joint ; plant them out in June, and 
there will be a good recompense for your 
trouble. The vegetable-marrow must not be 
allowed to grow too large ; they ought to be 
eaten before the seeds are formed : while 
young they are like marrow, but after a cer- 
tain age they become a mere jelly, and when 
they lose their firmness and swell they are 
watery, faint, and unwholesome. 
LETTUCE AND OTHER SALADS. 
Lettuce, corn-salad, small salad, and 
other herbs for the same purposes, may be 
sown each month, but corn-salad is by far the 
most economical of all the small salads, be- 
cause you keep picking from it the leaves, and 
they grow again continually. Lettuces, both 
the cos and the cabbage sorts, may be sown on a 
warm border in February, March, April, May, 
June, and July, and in frames, or with some 
protection, all the rest of the months. They 
may be watered and drawn out for planting 
according as they get strong enough, and 
ground is vacant. There is no season to 
regulate their growth any more than their 
consumption, but it may be taken as a general 
rule that the cabbage kinds are the most 
hardy, and do with least trouble all through 
winter, and that, as they want protection, even 
when sown in February, in an open border, the 
best way is to sow them with onions for pulling 
young, and with radishes to draw young, 
and the same litter that covers for one will 
cover for all. Lettuces ought to be planted 
out a foot apart in the row and eighteen 
inches from row to row. Radishes, like 
