The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . seed bed. One great failing is,that seed for various reasons does not cover sufficientground, sometimes on account of want of space, atothers through carelessness in sowing. To keep upa continuous supply, it is not so much the quantitysown at one time as the using of the proper varietiesto succeed tach other. There are now a numberof varieties of autumn and winter Broccoli that willresist a certain degree of cold, on account of theirclose, compact hearts, aud the leaves folding overclose together. Sno
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . seed bed. One great failing is,that seed for various reasons does not cover sufficientground, sometimes on account of want of space, atothers through carelessness in sowing. To keep upa continuous supply, it is not so much the quantitysown at one time as the using of the proper varietiesto succeed tach other. There are now a numberof varieties of autumn and winter Broccoli that willresist a certain degree of cold, on account of theirclose, compact hearts, aud the leaves folding overclose together. Snows was formerly considered tobe one of the best for use in the early winter, and isso still where the true stock is kept. The time ofsowing tho seed has also much to do with keeping upa succession, as it is almost useless to sow a latevariety early with the hope of preventing a blank ;but early varieties sown late and kept on growing,will prolong their season. There are, howevor,exceptions in this case, for if the seed of late Cauli-flower be sown early, the plants will turn-in just at a. -ialLADLUllUS ^I VAll. AVALANCJ! hold of the plauts seriously, much trouble is expe-rienced in keeping them through the winter. As arule, however, if the early varieties are taken up inthe autumn and put close together, so that they maybo covered with mats and litter, which afford occa-sional supplies even in hard weather ; and in mildweather they turn in much faster, so that if eithercut and placed in a cellar, or pulled up and hung ina shed out of the way of frost, they are found to begood eating. //. C. Prinsep. this branch of gardening must not be neglected. Toretain the moisture iu the ground, it should beworked iu the autumn or winter, so that it maybecome consolidated again before tho dry weathersots in ; but where so many crops have to be takenfrom the same plot, aud in close succession, it is verydifficult to treat all of them as one would wish. Wherethere is not this neces
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