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KITCHEN GATIDEN.—AI'IUL.—What remains to be sown here? A few peas may be put in for successional crops, or for main 'crop if only an early variety or two have been sown. There are peas which are well adapted for small villa gardens, namely, Prince of Wales and Omega. Villa gardens are generally circninscribed in space rather than otherwise, and it is well to oconomise room by growing things suited to the restricted dimensions. Now these peas, dwarf in gro-vth as they are, should be sown thinly, because they branching that is to say, they throw out numerous side branches from the main stem, which grow long and bear peas. It is therefore obvious that a few of such peas will plant a longer strip of ground than the same number of a variety that does not posses a branching habit. Let us advise our villa gardener to put sticks to his peas they do not cost much, and they pay for themselves in larger and better crops. A few longpod beans or Windsor beans it preferred (though the former yield the largest crop) may also be sown, also lettuce, mustard and cress, radishes, Australian cress, endive, &c. It is yet too early to sow dwarf French beans or scarlet runners; we shall be certain to have frosts later on, and these beans, being tender plants, are soon destroyed. It is of use to court disaster; while late uncongenial springs have to he endured, disasters in gardening matters will be common enough. Potatoes may now be planted, but it is quite early enough, frost proving destructive to these also, and nothing can toe more disappointing than to haye a crop of healthy looking plants cut back by frost. Experienced potato cultivators are now found advocating the planting of the latest varieties of Potatoes first, and the earliest last: the reason being that the latest are longest in starting into growth, and the earliest quickest, and by this means the latter run the less chance of being smitten by frost. A short time since we recommended the villa gardener, if he had a cold frame at his disposal, to plant a few early kidney or early round potatoes m it, or both, and if he is able to. do this he need not be in so great s hurry to plant his main crops of potatoes. But when he does this let him first dig over the ground, and then draw a drill with a hoe, and set his seed dig and plant at the same time. A few days ago we planted some choice potatoes in a piece of sandy loam, and having drawn a trench with a hoe the seed was put in and then covered to the depth of two inches with some vegetable mould from a heap of rubbish. This will gave the tubers a rare start, at the same time we shall be devoutly grateful if the shoots will remain below ground for some time to come.—Gardeners' Chronicle.

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