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A CATECHISM OF GARDENING. 
light in gardening; and if as a task it were occasionally introduced 
at school, it might he an incentive t6 the acquirement of more intel¬ 
lectual knowledge ; making the latter less irksome to the tender mind. 
Entertaining these ideas, and having before him the example of 
many academies on the Continent, the author has employed himself 
in drawing up the following little work. He has chosen the cate¬ 
chetical form in order that it may bear some resemblance to other 
elementary school hooks, and that the teacher may give a portion of 
the questions to be answered by the pupils, as in the case of religion, 
history, &c. By such exercises, many, if not all the most useful and 
and common practises may he impressed, and being connected with 
a view of the operations, they may be fixed on the mind. 
The book will be useful to the master as well as his scholars, as 
enabling him to direct the operations and culture of what should re¬ 
dound to his own advantage, as tenant of the School Garden; and 
no task imposed by him in the business or care thereof would ever 
be deemed a hardship by the pupils. 
As a remembrancer, and book of reference, it will be useful to 
every cottager, who is not already sufficiently acquainted with Cot¬ 
tage Gardening : the directions are brief and plain, and can hardly 
be misunderstood. 
Within the compass of 50 duodecimo pages, it contains informa¬ 
tion on Vegetable poisons; General advice on Gardening, Saving 
Seeds, General Catechism, and a calender of work to be done in each 
month. 
CULTIVATION OF LEAVES AND LEAF STALKS. 
“ You have now to enumerate and describe the leaves and leaf 
stalks used as food : what are they ? All the cabbage tribe, lettuce, 
endive, spinach, white beet, celery, cardoon, rhubarb, lamb’s lettuce, 
sorrel, parsley, mustard cress, and water cress. 
What concerning the cabbage P The principal and most useful 
varieties, are the early York, early dwarf, for first crops; Battersea 
and sugar loaf, for later supplies; the small red for pickling; and 
the drumhead and large red for field culture. The early Battersea 
is an excellent sort for cottages. 
At what seasons should cabbage be sowed ? For the principal 
spring crop the seed should he sowed some time between the 25th of 
of July and 8tli of August. If sowed before that time, many of the 
plants run to seed without heading; and if later, they do not come in 
soon enough for the table. 
Is not cabbage seed sown at other times P Yes : as a succession 
should be constantly coming in all the summer, another seed bed is 
