afterwards thinned, leaving three or four good plants in a hill, which hills should be from four to five feet distance from each other, every way.

The soil for running Beans should be the same as for Dwarf kinds, except the Lima, which requires richer ground than any of the other sorts.

If any of these Beans are wanted earlier than the ordinary seasons, they may be planted in flower pots in April, and placed in a green house or garden frame, and being transplanted in May, with the balls of earth entire, will come into bearing ten or fourteen days earlier than those which, in the first instance, are planted in the natural ground.

It will require about a quart of Lima Beans to plant one hundred hills. A quart of the smallest sized Pole Beans will plant three hundred hills and upwards, or about two hundred and fifty feet of row, and the largest runners will go about as far as the Lima Beans.

Lima Beans should be shelled while fresh, and boiled in plenty of water until tender, which generally takes from fifteen to twenty minutes. Soine cook them in the Winter, after having been dried, in which case they should be soaked in soft water for a few hours, and then put into the water cold, and boiled until tender, with a little salt; but salted meat being boiled with them answers the same purpose, and makes them sweeter and more wholesome. Mode of cooking the other sorts, the same as the Kidney Dwarfs.

Beets, in their several varieties, are biennial, and the best blood-coloured are much cultivated for the sake of their roots, which are excellent when cooked, and very suitable for pickling after being boiled tender; they also, when sliced, make a beautiful garnish for the dish, and the young plants are an excellent substitute for Spinach.

The Mangel Wurtzel, Scarcity, and Yellow Turnip Beets, are cultivated for cattle. Domestic animals eat the leaves and roots with great avidity. They are excellent food for swine, and also for milch cows; and possess the quality of making them give a large quantity of the best flavoured

milk.

A small bed of the earliest and most esteemed kinds of Beets, may be planted in good rich early ground towards the end of March, or in the first week of April, which being well attended to, will produce good roots in June.

Draw drills a foot apart, and from one to two inches deep'; drop the seed along the drills about two inches from each other, and cover them with the earth. When the plants are up strong, thin them to the distance of six or eight inches from each other in the rows. The ground should be afterwards hoed deep round the plants, and kept free from weeds.

If the planting of beet seed, for general crops, be delayed until May or June, the roots will be much larger and better than those from the earliest planting, which, from being fre quently stunted in growth by the various changes of weather, become tough, stringy, and of unhandsome shape. In case of failing crops, Beet seed planted the first week in July, will sometimes produce large handsome roots for Winter use.

The most suitable ground for Beets, is that which may have been well manured for previous crops, and would re quire no fresh manure, provided it be well pulverized.

It is always best to thin Beets while young. If the tops are used as a vegetable, they should not be left too long for this purpose, or they will greatly injure the roots of those that are to stand. Beds that are to stand through the Summer, should be kept clean by repeated hoeings; and the roots intended for Winter use should be taken up in October, or early in November, and stowed away as directed in the calendar for those months.

Allowing Beet seed to be planted on the gardening plan, it will require at the rate of ten pounds for an acre of land, which is two pounds and a half for a rood, and one ounce for every perch, pole, or rod. If cultivated on the field system, one half the quantity of seed will be sufficient, or even less, if sown regular. If it be an object with the gardener to save his seed, he may plant two or three seeds in each spot where a plant is required, and thin them as before directed.

It may be necessary to add, that one pound of Beet seed will measure about two quarts, and as each capsule contains four or five small seeds, thinning out the surplus plants is indispensable to the production of good roots.

There are several sub-varieties of this genus of plants besides those above specified, most of which have large open heads, with curled wrinkled leaves. The Dwarf Curled, or Finely Fringed sorts, are much cultivated in Europe for the table; and the coarse and tall-growing are considered profitable for eattle. The Thousand-Headed Cabbage, and Cesarean Kale, grow from three to five feet high, and branch out from the stem, yielding an abundant supply of leaves and sprouts in the Winter and Spring.

For the garden, these several varieties may be treated in every respect as Winter Cabbages. The seeds may be sown about the middle of May, and the plants set out in the month of July, in good rich ground. They are never so delicious as when rendered tender by smart frosts; they are valuable plants to cultivate, particularly in the more Southerly States, as they will there be in the greatest perfection during the Winter months; they will also, if planted in a gravelly soil, and in a sheltered warm situation, bear the Winters of the Middle States; and may be kept in great perfection in the Eastern States, if taken up before the frost sets in with much severity, and placed in trenches up to their lower leaves, and then covered with straw, or other light covering the heads may be cut off as they are required for use; and in the Spring, the stems being raised up, will produce an abundance of delicious greens.

One ounce of good Borecole seed will produce about four thousand plants, and may be sown in a border four feet by ten, or thereabouts.

BRUSSELS SPROUTS.

CHOU DE BRUXELLES AJETS.

Brassica oleracea, etc.

This plant frequently grows from three to five feet high, and produces from the stem small heads resembling Cabbages in miniaturc, each being from one to two inches in diameter. The top of the plant resembles the Savoy, when planted late. The sprouts are used as winter greens, and they eat very tender when touched with the frost.

The seed may be sown about the middle of May, in the same manner as Borecole, and the plants set out with a dibble early in July. The subsequent treatment must be in every respect as for Borecole.

It may be necessary to add, that in cooking these sprouts, as also Kale, Colewort, and greens in general, they should be put into hot water, seasoned with salt, and kept boiling briskly, until tender. If it be an object to preserve their natural colour, put a small lump of pearlash into the water, which also makes the coarser kinds of Cabbage more tender in the absence of salted meat.

The several varieties of Broccoli and Cauliflower, may be justly ranked amongst the greatest luxuries of the garden. They need only be known in order to be esteemed. The Broccoli produces heads, consisting of a lump of rich seedy pulp, like the Cauliflower, only that some are of a green colour, some purple, some brown, &c. and the white kinds so exactly resemble the true Cauliflower, as to be scarcely distinguished either in colour or taste.

Broccoli is quite plentiful throughout England the greater part of the year, and it is raised with as little trouble as Cabbages are here. The mode of raising the Purple Cape Broccoli is now generally understood in this part of America; but the cultivation of the other kinds has been nearly abandoned, on account of the ill success attending former attempts to bring them to perfection. In such of the Southern States, where the Winters are not more severe than in England, they will stand in the open ground, and continue to produce their fine heads from November to April. In the middle, and especially in the Eastern States, if the seeds of the late kinds be sown in April, and the earlier kinds in May, in the open ground, and treated in the same manner as Cauliflower plants, it would be the most certain method of obtaining large and early flowers; but as only a part of these crops can be expected to come to perfection before the approach of Winter, the remainder will have to be taken up, laid in by the roots, and covered with earth up to the lower leaves.

Those who are desirous of obtaining Broccoli and Cauli flower in any quantity, so as to have all the different varieties in succession, should have places erected similar to some of our greenhouses: the back and roof may be made of refuse lumber, which being afterwards covered with fresh stable dung, will keep out the frost. The place allotted for Cape Broccoli and Cauliflower should have a glazed roof to face the South-the sashes must be made to take off in mild weather, but they should be always kept shut in severe cold weather, and covered with mats, or boards, litter, &c. so effectually as to keep out the frost.

The hardy kinds of Broccoli may be preserved without glass, by having shutters provided to slide over the front in extreme cold weather, which may be covered over with fresh stable dung or other litter. If these plants get frozen, it will be necessary to keep the full power of the sun from coming on them until they be thawed; this may be done by shaking a little straw on the bed as they lay. It may perhaps be not generally understood that the sudden transition from cold to heat, is more destructive to vegetables than the cold itself. If plants of any kind get frozen, and cannot be screened from the sudden rays of the sun, they should be well watered as the air gets warm, and before they begin to thaw; this will drive out the frost, and may be the means of saving the plants.