flower seeds alone, if purchased at a seedsman's, would come, and ought to come; to pretty nearly one half of the money which I charge for the whole. Of some of the sorts of seeds the purchaser will think the quantity small; and, of these the cauliflower is one; but, it must be a thundering garden that requires more than three hundred cauliflower plants; and, if carefully sowed, agreeably to the directions in my Gardening Book, the seed which I put up is more than sufficient for any gentleman's garden; and I will pledge myself for the soundness of every individual seed. In the small bag, the quantity is in proportion to the price. Authors always want people to read their books; or, to purchase them at least. The reader will not, therefore, be surprised, that I most earnestly exhort all those who buy my seeds, to buy my book, too, and even then they will not have half so much to pay as if they had to purchase the seeds of a seedsman.

ble; and if you want three hundred plants, it is better to sow these three hundred seeds in a proper manner, than to fling twenty thousand seeds over the same space of ground. You must cut the superfluous seeds up with a hoe, or pull them out with your hand; and, small as they are, and insignificant as you may think their roots to be, they rob and starve one another, even before they get into rough leaf. I know very well, that it requires a great deal more time to sow a bed of a hundred feet long, and with cabbages, for instance; a great deal more time to sow it in drills, and to put the seed in thinly, than to fling the seed thickly over the ground and just rake it in; but, look at the subsequent operations; and you will find that, in the end, this "sowing abundantly" costs ten times the time and the labour which are required by the method of sowing pointed out in my book. Therefore, let no man ima gine, that to have a plentiful crop a I have only one fear upon this occa- great quantity of seed is necessary. sion, and that is, that gentlemen's gar- When, indeed, you have reason to fear deners, who are in the habit of dealing that the seed is not sound, and when you with seedsmen, and who are apt to ad- cannot obtain that which you know to here too literally to that text of Scrip- be sound, it may be prudent to throw in ture, which says that "he who soweth great parcels of it in order to have the abundantly shall reap abundantly;" but, best chance to get some plants; but, begging their pardon, this does not hap-hazard work like this ought mean covering the ground with the to be avoided, if possible; and, at seeds, which, though it may produce any rate, I pledge myself, for the abundant reaping to the seedsman, is soundness of all my seed; I pledge far from having that tendency with re- myself that, if properly sowed, every gard to the crop. Thick sowing is, seed that I sell shall grow. Thus far indeed, injurious in three ways: first, as to my seeds in general. I have it is a waste of seed and of money, of now to speak of one sort of seed, which it is actually a flinging away of which, as that horrible old Whig, both second, it makes work in the Sir Robert Walpole, said of his bribes, thinning out of the plants: third, the" is sold only at my shop." This plants will never be so fine if they is the seed of the CISALPINE strawcome up thick. Therefore, in my Gardening Book, chapter 4, beginning at paragraph 85, I take very great pains .to give instructions for thin sowing; and, if every one who cultivates a garden could see the regularity, the cleanness, and the beauty, of my seed beds, never should we again see a parcel of seeds flung promiscuously over the ground. It is probable, that three hundred cauliflower seeds will lie in a thim

berry: this strawberry, unlike all others that I ever heard of, produces its like from the seed; is raised with the greatest facility, bears most abundantly, and keeps bearing until the hard frosts come. The seeds are so small that a little pinch of them between the finger and the thumb is sufficient for a very large garden; and the method of rearing the plants is this: about the first week of February, or it may be a little later, fill

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with fine earth, to within about an inch | WOLSLEY, who is my teacher as to this of the top, a flower-pot from twelve to piece of knowledge, and at whose house, fifteen inches over; take the little pinch at WOLSLEY PARK, I saw, in September of seed and scatter it very thinly over last, the finest dishes of strawberries the top of the earth; then put some very that I ever had seen in the whole course fine earth over the seed a quarter of an of my life. They were served up in a inch thick, or rather less. Set the pot in mixed state, some red and some white; a green-house, or in the window of any and the taste and fragrance were equal room where the sun comes, and give wa- to the beauty. Sir CHARLES was so ter very carefully, and very gently, as good as to make his gardener save me occasion may require. When the warm a considerable quantity of the seed, weather comes, the pot should be set out which, by the bursting of the paper, beof doors in a warm place when there is came mixed; and, therefore, the parcels no heavy rain, and should be taken in at of this strawberry seed, which I shall night if there be any fear of frost. To- put into my packages, will, the purwards the end of April, the pot may be chaser will bear in mind, be some of set out of doors altogether; and, small the white strawberry and some of the as the plants will still be, they will be red. After this long story about garden fit to be planted out in the natural seeds, which, however, is not so exeground by the middle, or towards the crably stupid as the impudent babble latter end, of May. Then dig a piece of the Whigs about having "settled of ground deep, and make it extremely upon a Speaker for the next House fine upon the top, and put out the little" of Commons," I proceed to give a list plants in rows two feet apart, and two of the names of my seeds, and of the feet apart in the row; for, though not numbers which are to be put upon the bigger than a thread, each plant will parcels; once more observing, that a multiply itself into a considerable tuft large package of seeds will be sold for before the middle of July; and then twenty-five shillings, and a small one they will begin to bear, and they will for twelve shillings and sixpence. A keep on bearing as long as the hard frosts direction may be sewed on the package keep away. The very runners which in a minute, and it can be sent to any proceed from these plants, will take part of the country by the coach, or root, blow, and have ripe fruit, during in any other manner, as the weight, the first autumn. When the bearing is even of the larger package, is only over, cut off all the runners, clear the about 16 pounds. ground close up to the tufts, and let the tufts remain to bear another year, when their produce is prodigious. But, then you must grub them up; for they so multiply their offsets, and so fill the ground with their roots, that they almost cease to bear if they remain longer. So that you must have a new plantation from seed every year; and the seed you may save yourself, by squeezing the pulp of dead-ripe strawberries in water, which sends the seed to the bottom of the water you skim off the pulp, and drain away the water, then put the seed out in the sun to dry, and then put it up and preserve it for sowing in the winter. There is a red sort and a white sort,

No.

KITCHEN GARDEN SEEDS.

1. Asparagus.

2. Bean-Broad, or Windsor.
3. ......Long-pod.

4. ...... Early Masagan.
5. ......Kidney (or French) Scarlet
Runners.

6.

7.

9.

10.

White Runners.
Black Dwarf.

11. Beet-Red.
12. Brocoli-White.

8.

Dun Dwarf.

Robin-Egg.
.Speckled.

...

. Purple.

Early York.
Savoy.

13.

which you may keep separate or sow 14. Cabbage-Early Battersea.

NEILD, I., Shaw Edge within Crompton, | ruled dull, as well as for distilling and grind-
Lancashire, cotton-spinner.
PARTRIDGE, W., Birmingham, wharfinger.
TANSLEY, J., Little Dean street, Westmiu-
ster, ironmonger.

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