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to keep it in good heart. Success depends chiefly on this, and, there¬ 
fore, he must collect every particle of vegetable or animal matter in a 
hollow place between his house and garden, to receive every kind of 
drainage from the former, and all refuse from the latter; also all sorts 
of litter and cattle droppings from the public roads, lanes, and com¬ 
mons, which, when thrown together and turned once or twice till 
sufficiently rotten, will be found excellent manure. Ashes, lime- 
rubbish, marl, or chalk, may also be added, and mixed in the 
compost. 
ec Saving Seeds .—The only seeds that are worth the cottager’s while 
to save, are those of onion, scarlet runner, radish, and coss-lettuce; as 
to cabbage, savoy, carrot, parsnep, &c., there is such risk in saving 
them true, and cost so little if bought, that the amount can be no 
object to 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 of the cottager, as, by 
having ten or twelve ounces to sell, it will enable him not only to buy 
all his other seeds, but a load or two of dung besides.” 
The author has added the necessary quantities of seeds for a cottage 
garden—the suitable flowers, and implements, and directions, in the 
body of the work, for the culture of tubers, stems, leaves, and leaf¬ 
stalks, esculent flowers, and esculent pods, seeds, &c., with a monthly 
calendar. 
Vegetable Organisation.— “ In the most simple and elemen¬ 
tary forms under which plants present themselves to our notice, the 
cellular texture alone is found to occur. These plants, the Cellulares 
of Decandolle, constitute one of the primary divisions of the vege¬ 
table kingdom. They differ greatly, both in their internal configura¬ 
tion—in the several organs or parts of which the vegetable frame con¬ 
sists—in the roots, stems, branches, leaves, and parts of fructification— 
not only from plants of a higher order, but also among themselves. 
There is little apparent analogy between the rose that delights us with 
its fragrance, and the noisome fungus, Nature’s scavenger—between the 
the sturdy oak and the crust which attaches itself to the surface of the 
solid rock, either as a whole or in any of their parts; and yet the tran¬ 
sition from one of these extremes to the other, through the varied tribes 
of this part of Nature’s wide domain, is so gradual, and the relation by 
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