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Revieirs- and Extracia. — Hortieulture, 
as possible, promote the means necessary for a practical use of its contents, the 
beneficiul results would soon become visible. 
After the author has g-iven u few plain, practical remarks concerning cows, 
pigs, &c. &c., he proceeds to lay down some directions for the management of a 
cottager’s garden, of 25 rods of ground; this he divides into 2| rods for early 
potatoes, 5j late potatoes, 2^ early cabbages, 2^ late cabbages, savoys, 2^ 
greens, 2^ leeks and onions, 2^ peas, I j beaus, ^ carrots, | early turnips, 1 late 
turnips. He says, “ no vegetable answers better to the cottager than good pota¬ 
toes, undone great reason why people have bad/potatoes, is, because they take 
their sets from the small potatoes, thinking they will do as well to set j but to 
have fine crops of potatoes, yon should always take the eye from the middle of the 
best and finest potatoes.” 
We conceive the failure originates, in a great measure, iu the sets taken from 
small potatoes not being- allowed a sufficient body to support the eyes during the va¬ 
rious changes of wet and drought,runtil they become established. To remedy this, 
take out all the inferior eyes from the small potatoes, and plant them whole, for we 
have found from repeated experience, that a perfect eye from a small potatoe, if it 
has a sufficient body, and is not planted too deep, will grow equally as good a crop 
us from a large one. We have been in the habit of planting a considerable quan¬ 
tity for a number of years, and never yet failed of a good crop *, and we have 
found that a little quick lime, dug or ploughed into the land, will always insure 
them of a good quality. 
“With respect to laying up potatoes, the following method has been found to 
answer well:—As early in October as they are ripe, dig-them up as dry as possi¬ 
ble, and lay them in a heap, ridged up and covered with stubble or straw, and 
then again cover it with earth.” 
If they are covered a good thickness with soil, and in very severe frost, a quan¬ 
tity of litter, or rubbish of any kind is laid over the hill, to prevent the frost pene¬ 
trating, the second thatching may be entirely dispensed with. 
“The following are good sorts of potatoes:— iov first carly^ Fox’s Seedling, 
and Early Manly ; for second earb/y Nonsuch, and Early Champion, particularly 
the last. Perhaps the best sort of all is a new one, called the Bread-fruit potatoe, 
with which Heligoland beans may be profitably cultivated, by sowing them in the 
channels with the potatoes; they ripen at the same time without injuring the crop 
of potatoes. While potatoe plants are small, any quick growing- crop may be 
planted in the spaces they will occupy when full grown. Early potatoes should 
be planted in the second or third week of March. >Some late potatoes should be 
planted at the same time, and the rest in April.” 
We conceive Early Kidneys would be among the best for early planting, and to 
succeed them. Champions and Bread-fruits; and if the winter crops should not be 
got in till the middle of May, there need be no fear of a crop if properly managed 
We conceive, the directions for sowing and planting, which follow, are upon the 
whole very good. 
The sorts of Apples recommended are “ Hawthorndean, Royal Codlin, Pear- 
main, Grey Russet, and Ribstone Pippin.” This last, though an excellent fruit, 
we have found in many soils and situations, to be a very shy bearei ; wo should 
rather recommend either the Keswick Codlin, Fearne’s Pippin, or Minsbul Crab 
instead. The former of these, though no keeper, will yet bear very heavy cro|>8, 
and the two latter are not bad keepers, and bear well in any situation. 
Many useful recipes of difterent kinds fill up the remainder of the work, aud 
render it a very useful tract for general distribution. 
