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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[August 29. 
THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. 
Celery. —Pay attention to keeping the surface of the 
ground open, the plants free from spurious suckers, and 
the soil moist. 
Coleworts, Savoys, &e.—To secure a plentiful supply 
of spring vegetables, every vacant piece of ground 
should at once be cropped with coleworts , savoy coleworts, 
borecoles, &c.—if any plants are still left in the seed-beds. 
All of these may be planted thickly, and will, with¬ 
out fail, be found useful in spring for some purpose. 
Cauliflowers and C'ape brocoli may still be planted for 
winter storing. Plant fully also of endive, both curled 
and Batavian; continue to keep the earth’s surface 
amongst the brocoli, and all kinds of winter stuff', well 
stirred, and the decayed leaves cleared; for the latter, 
it allowed to remain on the soil, afford only a refuge for 
slugs, &c. 
Spinach. — Encourage this vegetable by repeatedly 
surface stirring the soil, thinning out the plants in due 
season; and, if the soil has not been already pretty well 
manured, its growth may be stimulated by the judicious 
application of liquid manure, not so much as to en¬ 
courage at this season too great a luxuriance, which 
would render it liable to get cut off by severe winter 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
In offering to the consideration of my readers some scales 
of expenditure for the management of limited incomes, I 
feel that I must claim from them even more kind indulgence 
than I have yet received; because the subject is one of 
extreme difficulty, and because I cannot, from my own ex¬ 
perience, either lay down rules, or practically judge of those 
afforded me by others. 1 have benefited by the advice and 
calculations of some whose experience has been great, 
both in affluence and poverty: who not only talk well on the 
subject, but whose actions have fully corresponded with, and 
perhaps exceeded, the sentiments they expressed, and the 
directions they have given me. And I purpose to make 
extracts from a very useful little work entitled, “ Practical 
Domestic Economy, which may be unknown to many of my 
readers, and beyond the means of others; and I shall ven¬ 
ture to add remarks as they occur to me, or are suggested 
by my friends. 
I think I have already said, that it is impossible to lay 
down accurate rules for the management of an income. The 
great, the important point—that without which nothing can 
be effected, and with which all things may be done—is stem 
rectitude of mind, based upon “ The Rock.” Circumstances 
and situation vary so much, that what is feasible in one 
case is impossible or improper in another. House-rent, for 
instance, is sometimes so much higher than the scale has 
admitted of, that a reduction must necessarily take place in 
some other item to make up for it. Provisions are also 
higher priced in some situations than in others, in which case 
less consumption must be permitted in those things which 
arc not essential for the support of life ; and in some cases— 
indeed I may say in all—many incidental expenses arise, for 
which there ought to be some provision made, and which, it 
appears to me, are not sufficiently allowed for in any scale I 
have hitherto met with. Journies are at times necessary, 
and often imperative sickness enters our dwelling—acci¬ 
dents occur to furniture, china, glass, &c. •— carriage of 
parcels and goods must be paid for: and in the country this 
is often a very material and unavoidable expense. Econo¬ 
mists must therefore, in almost all cases, alter estimates to 
suit their own particular requirements, for they will seldom 
find one exactly such as they wish. Testimonies to the cor¬ 
rectness of some of the estimates I am about to transcribe, 
however, have been most satisfactorily given; and if the 
SCALES OF EXPENDITURE. 
By the Authoress of“ My Flowers," Ac., Ac. 
weather, and yet, at the same time, a sufficient quantity 
should be given to keep up a good winter gathering of 
strongly grown clear leaves. 
Kidney Beans should now be planted on warm bor¬ 
ders, in patches the size of the spare hand-glasses and 
spare cucumber and melon frames, which should he 
placed over them previously to the arrival of the cold 
nights and stormy windy weather, so that a succession 
of this excellent vegetable may be kept up throughout 
the autumn months. 
Onions will, in general, become ripe enough for har¬ 
vesting by the end of this month. When drawn, they 
should have a twist round, in order to clear them of the 
soil with one band and be placed in the other to be tied 
into moderate sized bunches, and at once hung up in a 
loft, or open shed, or other place, where they can gra¬ 
dually dry. The present is still a good season for sowing 
onions. 
Ripe capsicums and chillies should be gathered and 
dried by those who wish to convert them into Cayenne 
pepper; the green fruit should be collected for pickling, 
&c., and tomatoes, both ripe and green, should be secured 
for sauce and pickling also. 
James Barnes. 
experience of only one family attests their truth, it is a proof 
that whoever will may meet with similar success. 
It may perhaps be expected that I should begin with the 
larger incomes, and gradually descend to those of the nar¬ 
rower limits; but it is so much more easy to expand our 
ideas than to contract them—it is so much more easy to add 
to our weekly expenses than to take from them—to indulge 
than to refrain—to spend than to save—that I begin at once 
from the lowest point at which a scale can conveniently bo 
framed, and which will, indeed, be the basis of all the rest. 
Besides, there is, in straitened circumstances—in honest, 
well-bred, straitened circumstances—something so interest¬ 
ing to the feelings, and my own individual sympathies extend 
so warmly to all who are thus situated, that I have abun¬ 
dantly more pleasure in the task than if hundreds and 
thousands were concerned. As many of our readers are 
persons receiving weekly salaries, or of limited incomes, 1 
shall address myself exclusively to them. 
The writer of the work, to which I have already alluded, 
commences by giving the following rule :— 
“ Divide the whole income, whatever it may be, into 12 
equal parts; and of the expenditure, per week, in every esti¬ 
mate, that of the adults or parents will be four-twelfths for 
each, or eight-twelfths for both; and for each child one-twelfth, 
or three-twelfths for the three children ; the remaining twelfth 
will be the reserve or saving. In a loss scientific but more 
homely language it is to be understood, that whatever is 
the amount of income for any given time in shillings, so many 
groats will be tlic expense of each parent; and so many 
pence will be the expense of each child, for that time ; and 
that the saving will be one penny in the shilling." The 
writer, in all his estimates below TT50 per annum, calculates 
for a family consisting of the parents and three children. 
“ .... It may be proper to say, that the quota of 
eight-twelfths, or two-thirds, assigned to the two parents, 
includes not only all the articles of provision for themselves, 
but every other description of household expense, tosether 
with tlieir clothes, rent, and all extras; whilst the one-Welith 
for each child consists chiefly of provisions of the f(flowing 
kinds:—namely, bread, flour, rice, oatmeal, sugar ,/treacle, 
milk, butter, potatoes, and some other vegetables; and a 
participation with their parents in a small portion of meat, 
