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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[June 27. 
and have made four or five leaves, may be shifted into 
pots 3£ inches wide, singly; or three may he put into 
5-inch pots till they bloom. We have practised the 
method with seedlings of planting them out in one or 
two light boxes in the proper compost, and allowed them 
to bloom there, planting out in the border the common 
ones as soon as they were proved, and transplanting 
such as were judged to be worthy of a farther trial into 
pots, singly. The raising of new kinds from seed is a 
delightful amusement, which, we trust, our amateur 
friends will treat themselves with as much as circum¬ 
stances will allow. T. Appleby. 
THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. 
An abundant variety and supply of good winter and 
spring vegetables depends so much on a proper system 
of cropping for the next few weeks, that no space of 
ground should be left uncropped. Cauliflowers, brocoli, 
Brussels sprouts, borecole, and kales of the best varieties, 
coleworts, &c., should be abundantly planted; not a space 
must be left vacant. Many of these vegetables may be 
planted to advantage between the rows of the p>eas and 
beans. As soon as the crop of the latter is gathered 
they should be cleared away, and the ground be well 
hacked over with the spud mattock, or stroDgly surface- 
scarified ; an operation which will be but little trouble, 
if the surface of the soil has been attended to as pre¬ 
viously directed. If the soil is not in good case, in con¬ 
sequence of not having been well manured when the 
winter or spring trenching was performed, apply some 
liquid-manure to the plants when established in the 
soil. 
Spinach. — A sheltered and good piece of ground 
should now be chosen for sowing the winter spinach 
when the time arrives. So much depends on the pre¬ 
paration of the soil for securing an abundant winter 
supply of this useful winter ancl spring vegetable, that 
it is well worth while to take some pains in preparing 
for its culture; and a small piece of ground, well chosen, 
may be made to produce a very large quantity of its 
fine healthy leaves. A spot of the early border, pea- 
ground, or old strawberry-ground, intended to be de¬ 
stroyed, should be ridge-trenched, exposing the soil as 
rough as possible to the influence of the sun and air; 
continuing, in the after-management, to frequently fork 
and hack it over, until it becomes, by the 10th or 12tli 
of August, as well pulverized as an ash hill. 
Some of the ground also, where the strawberry-crop 
is to be destroyed, may be prepared for sowing coleworts, 
and the principal cabbage crop, as well as lettuce, endive, 
Rampion, winter onions, late radishes, &c., as it will be 
found fresh and healthy for sowing seed and raising 
plants, as well as for general cropping. Sow the Early 
Dutch, Early Stone, and Early Red-top American turnip, 
all of which are quick in coming in, and of a very good 
quality when they do come. The fly, which in this 
locality is very plentiful and troublesome this season, 
will require to be well looked after, if a healthy even crop 
of turnips is to be obtained; dusting them over early in 
the morning with charred dust or dry wood ashes, both 
of which are famous protectives against those depre¬ 
dators, as well as stimulants of the first quality to the 
plant. Branches of the common elder, put into a light 
frame, and drawn over the turnip crop in the heat of 
the day, is also famous for driving away the fly. The 
previous-sown crops of turnip, if not well watered occa¬ 
sionally, will be hard, strong, and useless for culinary 
purposes. 
Potatoes. —The ground of the early and second early 
potatoes, between each row, may now be planted with 
any kind of winter vegetables, such as savoys, borecoles, 
cattle cabbage, &c. The potatoes afford for a time a 
slight shade and protection, and by the time the potato- 
haulm is taken up these kinds of plants are established; 
and the forking-out of the potatoes when ripe affords 
considerable advantage to the progress of these winter 
crops; after which, when rain prevails, and it is con¬ 
sidered needful to stimulate their growth, a small portion 
of guano or liquid-manure applied will cause great lux¬ 
uriance. 
Ridge Cucumbers should be encouraged by having the 
earth’s surface about them mulched, the vine or shoots 
kept occasionally stopped, trained, and pegged down, 
and a good soaking of manure-water applied when hot 
weather prevails. James Babnes. 
MISCELLANEOUS INEORMATION. 
OUR VILLAGE WALKS. 
By the Authoress 
The MS. of which I gave the commencement in my lost 
paper concludes thus :— 
“ Passing onward to the every-day occupations of life, how 
curious it is to reflect that the trees of the forest, sometimes 
greatly enriched by cultivation, have, in all ages and in 
every climate, been made instrumental as well for the main¬ 
tenance as the destruction of human life. They have at one 
time supplied food, shelter, clothing, and luxuries of every 
kind; at another, the instruments of death—the lire and 
stake of the martyr, his cross, and his earthly crown. Well 
might Wordsworth say 
“ ‘ There ia a spirit in the woods.’ 
It would he a vain thing here to attempt to particularize all 
the various, useful, and necessary applications of this sub¬ 
stance. It is found in every climate—each of which pro¬ 
duces an indigenous supply, according to the wants of man— 
equally available for savage as for civilized life. What can 
we say of its various qualities of hardness and softness, its 
lightness and its weight, the rapid growth of some kinds, the 
slow growth of others, its tenacity, its brittleness, its beauty 
of “ My Flowers.” 
of texture, colour, odour, and fibre; the medicinal qualities 
of some varieties, together with the almost endless diversity 
of its products of fruit, flowers, leaves, hark, gums, roots, and 
berries ? Or what shall we say of the modes in which timber 
is almost tortured by man for his own purposes ? Think of 
the application of steam to make the stubborn log bend; the 
process of Kyanizing, charring, and galvanizing to preserve 
it from decay; the extraction of its sap and resins, and then 
the injection of liquids through its pores to give it solidity 
and weight; its adaptation to arts and manufactures, not only 
for the shelter, preservation, and conveniences of life, but 
also as one of the component parts of gun powder for its 
destruction! 
“ Although it is well known that a large portion of England 
was originally little else than one continued forest, yet it is 
believed that only a very few kinds of timber were really and 
strictly indigenous in our soil, indeed for purposes of work ¬ 
manship it has been said there were but three, according to 
the old legal adage and distich—that 
“ 4 Oak, ash, and elm 
Are timber throughout the realm.* 
