CANADIAN WONDER FRENCH BEAN: 
the onion beds free from weeds. Scatter 
amongst any onions which you may have 
growing a mixture of soot and salt, half 
and half. This is a useful stimulant, 
and it will, ina great measure, prevent 
the attack of worms and insects. 
Radish.—Sow a little seed irom time 
to time and use the plants as quickly as 
they are ready. , 
Rape.—Sow in light rich soil in drills 
half an inch deep and 8 inches apart, and 
sow thickly, This valuable vegetable can 
be sown at almost any time of the year. 
The leayes are used as Spinach, and it is 
also used as a salad. - 
Spinach.—Sow a little seed, but very 
little. 
Tomato.—These plants are growing 
with great rapidity, and need frequent 
attention in staking and tying, pruning, 
&c. If the plants are set out in lines, a 
trellis may be formed, and the shoots as 
they grow should be secured to it. Care 
must be taken not to tie the shoots too 
tightly, for if this be done the ligature 
will assuredly do harm by cutting into 
the soft fleshy stem. Tomatoes grown on 
the trellis system, or if only tied to the ~ 
one upright stake, produce earlier, finer 5 
and better quality fruit than when the 
plants are allowed to sprawl all over th, 
ground. Atthe same time the plants aro 
more easily thinned of surplus shoots . 
and the fruit is more readily gathered. 
More waiter is required when the plants 
are kept away from the ground than 
when the vine is permitted to cover the — 
surface of the soil. 
The use of rotted manure rather than 
fresh manure is desirable in connection 
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with many market garden or vegetable 
crops, as it gives quicker results and with 
root crops will give a smoother and nicer 
product. 
The Rubbish Heap. 
A rubbish heap of some kind or other 
is necessary in every garden. There must 
be a depot for weeds which have been 
cut or hoed, and raked off, for prunings 
or clippings of all kinds, whether from 
kitchen garden, shrubbery, or flower 
garden, An accumulation of rubbish is 
inevitable, but the rubbish-heap should 
not become offensive to the eye or nose 
By a little care it may be converted into 
manure of some value. Should there be 
even a suspicion of any insect or fungus 
pest amongst the stuff wheeled to a heap, 
a fire should be lit at the first oppor- 
tunity, and the whole burnt. The ashes 
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are valuable as manure. If the heap be 
composed of vegetable matter free of any 
disease, then it may be allowed to rot and 
form valuable humus suitable for any 
part of the garden. Care should be 
taken not to convey to the rubbish heap 
broken ylass or pottery-ware of any des- 
cription. Such valueless and indestruct- 
ible material may be buried deeply in 
some out-of-the-way place, 
erect AAT 
Capsicum. 
In Roumania large areas are devoted 
to the cultivation of the capsicum, also of 
the egg plant and the mallow (Hibiscus 
esculentus). The large fruited, thick- 
fleshed capsicum fruits are, whilst still 
green, roasted ou the hot plate of the 
close cooking stove; freed from tho 
rind, and eaten as salid with oil and 
vinegar ; or the raw fruit is filled with 
meat and rice and cooked, and are thus 
brought to the table. The small-fruited 
chillies are eaten in the green state, or 
allowed to ripen, and used as a condiment 
with meat. The plants are set out ata 
distance of 10 to 18 inches apart, and by 
liberal waterings more fruit than leaves 
are produced. The seeds are sown in 
hotbeds, and when frosts are over the 
young plants are put out in light soil in 
warm positions, are hoed, and nothing 
more is done to them except watering, 
