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Mr. FEARON, in the fulness of his com- times the money; and so they ought: passion, was thus exclaiming, I, though for the seedsman has his expensive he found me in a pair of Yankee shop to keep; has his books to trousers not worth a groat, was pre- keep; has his credit to give, and has paring to sell seeds in a house his seeds to purchase with his ready at NEW YORK, for which I gave four- money. While, therefore, I have a teen hundred dollars a year. In short, right to proceed in my manner, he does I imported a great quantity of seeds nothing wrong. By the lists, which I from London, which I sold principally publish below, the reader will perceive in the following manner: that, to the garden seeds I have added the seeds of several annual flowers. They are not of very rare kinds; but they are all very pretty; and, even these 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 cauli

I had little boxes made, into each of which I put a sufficiency of each sort of seeds for a gentleman's garden for the year. The large seeds were in paper bags, and the smaller seeds in papers In the box along with the seeds, I put a printed paper containing a list of the names of the several seeds, and against each name the number, from numbers one to the end: then, there were corresponding numbers marked upon the bags and the parcels. So that, to know the sort of seed, the purchaser had no-flower plants; and, if carefully sowed, thing to do but to look at the numbers on the parcels and then to look at the list. Many of these boxes of seeds went as far as LowER CANADA to the north, and into the FLORIDAS, to NEW ORLEANS, and even to the West India islands, to the south; and the net proceeds were amongst the means of enabling me to prance about the country; amongst the means of enabling me to lead a pleasant life; of enabling me to stretch my long arm across the Atlantic, and to keep up the thumping upon Corruption, which I did to some tune.

I intend to dispose of my seeds in the same manner now, except that I shall use coarse linen bags instead of boxes. The several parcels of seeds will be put up either in paper bags or paper parcels; and a printed list with the names and numbers will be prepared; and, then, the parcels and the list will be put into the linen bag, and sewed up, and will be ready to be sent away to any person who may want it.

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.

I have only one fear upon this occasion, and that is, that gentlemen's gar deners, who are in the habit of dealing with seedsmen, and who are apt to adhere too literally to that text of Scripture, which says that "he who soweth abundantly shall reap abundantly;" but, begging their pardon, this does not mean covering the ground with the seeds, which, though it may produce A bag for a considerable garden; a abundant reaping to the seedsman, is garden of the better part of an acre, far from having that tendency with reperhaps, will be sold for twenty-five gard to the crop. Thick sowing is, shillings; and for a smaller garden, indeed, injurious in three ways: first, for twelve shillings and sixpence. These it is a waste of seed and of money, seeds, if bought at the shop of a seeds- which it is actually a flinging away man, would come to more than three both second, it makes work in the

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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 berry: this strawberry, unlike all others Gardening Book, chapter 4, beginning that I ever heard of, produces its like at paragraph 85, I take very great pains from the seed; is raised with the greatto give instructions for thin sowing; est facility, bears most abundantly, and and, if every one who cultivates a gar- keeps bearing until the hard frosts come. den could see the regularity, the clean- The seeds are so small that a little ness, and the beauty, of my seed beds, pinch of them between the finger and never should we again see a parcel of the thumb is sufficient for a very large seeds flung promiscuously over the garden; and the method of rearing the ground. It is probable, that three hun-plants is this: about the first week of dred cauliflower seeds will lie in a thim-February, or it may be a little later, fill ble; and if you want three hundred with fine earth, to within about an inch plants, it is better to sow these three of the top, a flower-pot from twelve to hundred seeds in a proper manner, than fifteen inches over; take the little pinch to fling twenty thousand seeds over the of seed and scatter it very thinly over same space of ground. You must cut the top of the earth; then put some very the superfluous seeds up with a hoe, or fine earth over the seed a quarter of an pull them out with your hand;, and, inch thick, or rather less. Set the pot in small as they are, and insignificant as a green-house, or in the window of any you may think their roots to be, they room where the sun comes, and give warob and starve one another, even before ter very carefully, and very gently, as they get into rough leaf. I know very occasion may require. When the warm well, that it requires a great deal more weather comes, the pot should be set out time to sow a bed of a hundred feet of doors in a warın place when there is long, and with cabbages, for instance; no heavy rain, and should be taken in at a great deal more time to sow it in night if there be any fear of frost. Todrills, and to put the seed in thinly, wards the end of April, the pot may be than to fling the seed thickly over the set out of doors altogether; and, small ground and just rake it in; but, look as the plants will still be, they will be at the subsequent operations; and you fit to be planted out in the natural will find that, in the end, this "sowing ground by the middle, or towards the abundantly costs ten times the time latter end, of May. Then dig a piece and the labour which are required by of ground deep, and make it extremely the method of sowing pointed out in fine upon the top, and put out the little my book. Therefore, let no man ima- plants in rows two feet apart, and two gine, that to have a plentiful crop a feet apart in the row; for, though not great quantity of seed is necessary. bigger than a thread, each plant will When, indeed, you have reason to fear multiply itself into a considerable tuft that the seed is not sound, and when you before the middle of July; and then cannot obtain that which you know to they will begin to bear, and they will be sound, it may be prudent to throw in keep on bearing as long as the hard frosts great parcels of it in order to have the keep away. The very runners which best chance to get some plants; but, proceed from these plants, will take hap-hazard work like this ought root, blow, and have ripe fruit, during to be avoided, if possible; and, at the first autumn. When the bearing is any rate, I pledge myself, for the over, cut off all the runners, clear the soundness of all my seed; I pledge ground close up to the tufts, and let the myself that, if properly sowed, every tufts remain to bear another year, when seed that I sell shall grow. Thus far as to my seeds in general. I have now to speak of one sort of seed, which, as that horrible old Whig, Sir Robert Walpole, said of his bribes,

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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

I imported a great quantity of seeds from London, which I sold principally in the following manner:

Mr. FEARON, in the fulness of his com- times the money; and so they ought: passion, was thus exclaiming, I, though for the seedsman has his expensive he found me in a pair of Yankee shop to keep; has his books to trousers not worth a groat, was pre- keep; has his credit to give, and has paring to sell seeds in a house his seeds to purchase with his ready at NEW YORK, for which I gave four-money. While, therefore, I have a teen hundred dollars a year. In short, right to proceed in my manner, he does nothing wrong. By the lists, which I publish below, the reader will perceive that, to the garden seeds I have added the seeds of several annual flowers. They are not of very rare kinds; but they are all very pretty; and, even these 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,

I had little boxes made, into each of which I put a sufficiency of each sort of seeds for a gentleman's garden for the year. The large seeds were in paper bags, and the smaller seeds in papers In the box along with the seeds, I put a printed paper containing a list of the names of the several seeds, and against each name the number, from numbers one to the end: then, there were corresponding numbers marked upon the bags and the parcels. So that, to know the sort of seed, the purchaser had nothing to do but to look at the numbers on the parcels and then to look at the list. Many of these boxes of seeds went as far as LowER CANADA to the north, and into the FLORIDAS, to NEW ORLEANS, and even to the West India islands, to the south; and the net proceeds were amongst the means of enabling me to prance about the country; amongst the means of enabling me to lead a pleasant life; of enabling me to stretch my long arm across the Atlantic, and to keep up the thumping upon Corruption, which I did to some tune.

I intend to dispose of my seeds in the same manner now, except that I shall use coarse linen bags instead of boxes. The several parcels of seeds will be put up either in paper bags or paper parcels; and a printed list with the names and numbers will be prepared; and, then, the parcels and the list will be put into the linen bag, and sewed up, and will be ready to be sent away to any person who may want it.

I have only one fear upon this occasion, and that is, that gentlemen's gar deners, who are in the habit of dealing with seedsmen, and who are apt to adhere too literally to that text of Scripture, which says that "he who soweth abundantly shall reap abundantly;" but, begging their pardon, this does not mean covering the ground with the seeds, which, though it may produce A bag for a considerable garden; ajabundant reaping to the seedsman, is garden of the better part of an acre, far from having that tendency with reperhaps, will be sold for twenty-five gard to the crop. Thick sowing is, shillings; and for a smaller garden, indeed, injurious in three ways: first, for twelve shillings and sixpence. These it is a waste of seed and of money, of seeds, if bought at the shop of a seeds- which it is actually a flinging away of man, would come to more than three both second, it makes work in the

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the method of sowing pointed out in
my book. Therefore, let no man ima-
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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 wa-
ter 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.
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11. Beet-Red.
12. Brocoli-White.
.......Purple.

Early York.
Savoy.

17. Cale-Curled-Scotch.

which you may keep separate or sow 14. Cabbage-Early Battersea.
them and plant them promiscuously. 15.
And, now, to do justice to Sir CHARLES 16.
WOLSLEY, who is my teacher as to this
piece of knowledge, and at whose house, 18. Carrot.
at WOLSLEY PARK, I saw, in September 19. Cauliflower.
last, the finest dishes of strawberries 20. Celery.
that I ever had seen in the whole course 21. Chervil.

of my life. They were served up in a 22. Cress.

mixed state, some red and some white; 23. Cucumber, early frame.
and the taste and fragrance were equal 24. Corn (Cobbett's).
to the beauty. Sir CHARLES was so 25. Endive.

good as to make his gardener save me 26. Leek.

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27. Lettuce-White Coss.

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..Brown Dutch.
.Green Cabbage.

31. Mustard-White.
32. Nasturtium-Dwarf.
33. Onion.

34. Parsnip.
35. Parsley-Curled.
36. Pea-Early-frame.

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Tall Marrowfats.
Dwarf Marrowfats,

a considerable quantity of the seed,
which, by the bursting of the paper, be-
came mixed; and, therefore, the parcels
of this strawberry seed, which I shall
put into my packages, will, the pur-
chaser will bear in mind, be some of
the white strawberry and some of the
red. After this long story about garden
seeds, which, however, is not so exe-
crably stupid as the impudent babble
of the Whigs about having "settled 37.
upon a Speaker for the next House 38.
"of Commons," I proceed to give a list
of the names of my seeds, and of the
numbers which are to be put upon the
parcels; once more observing, that a
large package of seeds will be sold for
twenty-five shillings, and a small one
for twelve shillings and sixpence. A 44. Turnip-Early-Garden.
direction may be sewed on the package
in a minute, and it can be sent to any
part of the country by the coach, or
in any other manner, as the weight, 46. Catch Fly.
even of the larger package, is only 47. China-asters.
about 16 pounds.

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39. Radish-Early Scarlet.
White Turnip.

40.

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41. Spinage.
42. Squash (from America, great va-
riety).
43. Strawberry-Cisalpine.

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