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COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
Rules for Cottagers On 'saving Seeds, from Catechism of 
Gardening. The only seeds that are worth the cottager’s while to save 
are those of onion, scarlet runners, radish, and coss lettuce; as to cab¬ 
bage, savoy, carrot, parsnip, &c., there is such risk in saving them true, 
and cost so little if bought, that the amount can be noobjectto the buyer. 
When attempted, however, the finest and truest specimens of the crop 
should be chosen to produce seed. A few plants of radish and lettuce 
may stand where they were sown; a score of the first pods may be 
left on the runners ; and half a dozen of the best onions planted in a 
row on an open spot of the garden in the month of February, will 
yield seed enough for the following season. Indeed, saving onion 
seed should be a particular object with the cottager; as by having ten 
or twelve ounces to sell, will enable him not only to buy all his other 
seeds, but a load or two of dung besides. 
Quantities of Seeds required in a smalt Garden. 
1 pint of early peas is enough for a row of 20 yards in length. 
1 
ditto beans 
ditto 
27 ditto. 
1 
ditto runner 
ditto 
26 ditto. 
1 
ditto dwarf kidney 
ditto 
26 ditto. 
1 
ditto marrowfat peas 
32 ditto. 
1 oz. onion seed sows 15 square yards; i oz. leek, 7 square yards; 
1 oz. carrot, 15 square yards; 1 oz. parsnip, 15 square yards; i oz. 
of cabbage, savoy, borecole, broccoli, cauliflower, is enough for a seed 
bed of 4 square yards; i oz. turnip, 11 square yards; of radishes 2 
or 3 oz. for spring sowings, and H oz. for autumn. A bed of as¬ 
paragus, 5 feet by 30, requires 160 plants. An acre of potatoes re¬ 
quires from 15 to 20 bushels of sets. 
The foregoing particulars will serve as a scale for apportioning 
other kinds of seeds, according to the size of the seeds respectively, 
and extent of the ground to be sowed or planted. 
Flowering Plants for the Cottage Garden. 
Roses and honeysuckles for the walls of the house, and for the 
children’s flower border; tulips, narcissus, polyanthus, hyacinths, 
carnation, clove, picotee, pink, snowdrop, violet, JBrompton and ten- 
week stocks, wallflowers, &c. 
Implements used in Gardens. 
The spade; shovel; two-tined and three-tined forks ; hand trowel; 
dibbers ; mattock; turnip hoe, carrot hoe, and Dutch hoe ; large and 
small rakes; pruning knife; garden shears, and hook. 
T. HARDCASTLE, PRINTER, HIGH-STREET, SHEFFIELD. 
