conditions may make failures of one or more crops. But in variety and succession of crops is safety and profit. In order to succeed, crop must be made to follow crop, so

from the first of March to the first of August;

ng you will find work ready and crops maturing

e Garden," though it does embrace some weird vegetables, explaining, for instance,

for the crops to come up, f

ar and bring returns only at periods of the year, but the retur

ey farmers in market

nd Radish

Onions, and

nd Strawber

bers, and Cabba

, Peaches, and

Potatoes

y in

ower in

d Brussels Spr

d Brussels Spr

Sprouts i

Sprouts

ps can be varied

ge, none of the rows should be less than thirty inches apart, and for late growing things, as large cabbage, four feet is better. If the rows are long, it may be necessary to grow two or three kinds of vegetables in the same row; in this case it is important that vegetables requiring the same general treatment and similar length of season be grown together. For example, a row containing parsnips and salsify, or parsnips, salsify, and late carrots would afford an ideal combination; but a row containing parsnips, cabbages, and le

op and sometimes a failure in this crop will mean ruin to the farmer, whereas, where small areas are used, th

ime-one of which will mature much earlier than the other, thereby giving its place up just about t

d later part of the season. The secondary crop matures early in the season, leaving the ground free for the main crop.

xamples of some

carrots. The radishes

need t

, citron, pumpkin,

and cauliflow

h and earl

ith early

Vegetable Garden

soon as the early vegetables mature they are removed, and a mid

. Early potatoes and early cauliflower are followed by Brussels sprouts and celery, two crops b

ng" are summarized by Professor

e planted. Later between the cauliflower, two or three cucumber seeds may be dropped. The onion sets up around the

other early relish, which will have ample time to grow and to be consumed before harm can come to the onions from t

s, cucumbers, and turnips off the same place. Weed

rable capital in growing fruit against brick walls-it cost over $3100 to prepare the land, of which the wa

six yards of frames for seedlings, vegetables are grown in the open air to

is an admirable orchard, from which millions worth of fruit is exported, and the land attains the selling price of from L 325

$350 per acre, the land with full-bearing fruit or nut trees often sells at $1000, and even up to $2000 pe

a good season for all crops, on a half acre of land, Mr. Henry

ble marrows, 2976 carrots, 264 bundles radishes, 14 gallons French beans, 12 gallons currants' 95-1/2 punnets mustard, 27 pounds mushrooms, rhubarb, 948 bushels sprout tops, 38 dozen leeks, 1150 plants, 11-1/4

arm work, therefore I never went to school. Anyhow I thought something was very wrong if the land would not pay; so, to compel myself to go out in the fresh air, I took an allotment on the Sussex Downs to work in the early morning before my daily duties began. I might say that I am a waiter, and have been in my present

ago it was but four inches of soil on chalk, but I now have a foot of s

not to have workhouses. Every man could live, and live well, if

etors, by sale preferred, and let it out to men, not by 1000 acres, as no man can farm well a thousand acres in England; let the farms be greatly reduced, and then the land can be treated as it should be. Most of u

e done, and done easily. I do know that one man alone can manage two acres, and at the end of this year I shall be able t

man to have, say, 500 or 1000 acres which in no way can he properly manage; as, in the fi

in a near-by market, and which has been cultivated under the best management for a term of years, would provide a very comfortable living. The product of other acres,

h as one best situated, yet, almost none of its production would be available to sel