Practical papers—market gardening. 
in the team work during the year. If you have a good sized 
garden, say of seven or eight acres, you will probably need to 
average two trips per day for nearly or quite 300 days in the year. 
This, of course, includes the hauling of manure into your garden 
as well as marketing your crops. Here, then, is a difference of 
1,200 miles in one year’s driving. Hence, my advice is, pa} T a 
large price for land near jour market, rather than take land as a 
gift three or four miles away. 
How we come to the business of planting and cultivation. I 
will take it for granted that you are provided with at least ten 
cords of good manure for each acre that you propose to cultivate; 
and if you have fifteen cords per acre, all the better. I know that 
some farmers will persist in farming without manure, but I am 
going to try and believe that no one will be so silly as to attempt 
gardening without a good supply of it on hand. 
Before going farther, let me give one general rule for manuring, 
which my own experience has shown me to be the best of any that 
I have ever tried. It is as follows: Spread about one-half of 
what you design for a given portion of land upon the top of the 
ground, and for this take the coarsest part of the manure and plow 
it under. Spread the other half upon the top of the ground after 
plowing, and drag it in with a fine tooth harrow. After this it will be 
necessary to rake the whole ground over with hand rakes. I lay 
this down not as an invariable rule, but as a general one, which of 
course has its exceptions. 
Hew comes the selection of seeds, and if there is any thing more 
utterly bewildering to a beginner than this, I am sure that I do 
not know what it is. For instance, I have one volume in my . 
library, in which there are twenty-five varieties of onions enumer¬ 
ated, thirty-four of potatoes, thirty-four of squashes, forty of beets, 
forty-two of tomatoes, fifty of cucumbers, fifty-four of cabbages, 
fifty-six of turnips, fifty-eight of corn, eighty-four of lettuce, 108 of 
beans, 115 of peas, and so on through the whole list. There is a 
list of twelve of our standard garden vegetables, and 700 varieties 
of seed to select from. Hor is this all. Hot a year passes by but 
new varieties of each of these and many other kinds are intro¬ 
duced with an almost innumerable host of circulars, that would 
