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young. Carrot seed should be steeped in water before sowing, and then mixed with dry sand, that it may be sown the more readily.

Beet, is a useful garden produce, and if planted out early, may be taken up in August, when you may put in winter cabbage. Sow the seeds in April, and transplant by a dibble, in well-dunged ground, in May. Cut off the tops in November, when they may be eaten like spinach, and then store the roots out of the reach of frost, for winter use.

Parsley, is a useful herb, and will grow anywhere, and it will propagate itself, if one or two plants be allowed to run to seed occasionally.

Chives, are almost as useful as onions, and should be grown in every cottage garden. The plants can be readily procured, and they increase very fast.

Peas, are a very useful vegetable in a family, and if you sow the dwarf kind, in drills, three feet apart, they will require few sticks to support them, and will, indeed, do without any, although not so well. The taller kind of peas require more room, and will need to be well supported with sticks.

Beans, are also a very useful vegetable, and may be planted singly, in rows two feet and a half or three feet apart; or else they may be dibbled in between your cabbage plants, in March. The best sorts are the Windsor and Mazugan.

Of other vegetables there is a great variety, but they need not be particularized here, the above being generally sufficient for the small farmer's or the cottager's garden.

Quantities of Seed suited for a Cottage Garden.— One pint of peas will sow fourteen yards of a drill; one pint of beans will sow twenty-two yards of a drill; one ounce of onion seed will sow ten square

yards; half an ounce of leek seed will sow six square yards; one ounce of carrot seed will sow ten square yards; one ounce of parsnip seed will sow twelve square yards; half an ounce of cabbage, savoy, brocoli, or cauliflower seed, will sow between three and four square yards.

Flowers, should be cultivated in every garden, especially if near the house; in which case, if not in every other, the Garden certainly ought not to be limited to the production of vegetables merely, but should contain the ornamental, as well as the useful. Too much time and space must not, however, be devoted to flowers; and we will only mention a few of the more hardy sorts, which may be easily managed, and which will be pleasing at all seasons of the year.

Climbing over the porch, or around the door, you may have a few of the hardy tall-growing roses, for ornament. Common monthly or China roses may cover the corners of your house, or be trained under and along the sides of the windows, mixed with laurestinus, arbutus, and pyracantha; nor let the honeysuckle be wanting in some corner, twisted round a tree, or hanging over a corner of the wall.

Have plants of the hundred-leaved, moss, cabbage, variegated, and common blush roses, in the corners of your garden nearest the house; and in the borders, plant snowdrops, crocuses, hepaticas, the winter aconite, red and yellow tulips, white and yellow bachelors' buttons, primroses, anemones, narcissus, cowslips, polyanthus, white and yellow lily, stocks and wallflowers of different colours, dahlias, hollyhocks, jonquils, violets, and the pretty little Virginia stock, and any other annuals you like or can procure.

If you edge your flower-borders with the garden daisy, and the hardy sorts of auriculas, there will be few days in the year in which some pretty little flower will not peep forth, and afford you pleasure in looking at it. A holly, bay, laurel, or rhododendron, will do well under shade, and their perpetual green will refresh your eyes in winter: and be assured that such ob

jects as a garden presents, if it be neatly kept, are always valuable; for they do the heart good, and impart a kindly tone of feeling and refinement, and serve to keep out evil thoughts.

Encourage your children in a taste for flowers. Teach them to plant the seeds and roots, and to weed and keep them clean, and train and cultivate them; and the taste will remain with them when they grow old. It is on such things as these, in the recollection of bygone days, that local attachment is founded, making us delight to revisit the scenes of our childhood, and bringing back the wanderer from distant climes, to seek a last resting-place in the home of his fathers.

ON HEALTH.

The possession of health, is one of the greatest blessings that can be bestowed upon man, whatever be his rank or station in life; and to the labouring man it is so essential, that his very existence may be said to depend upon it. Without health, the labourer will be unable to pursue his labour, or obtain the means of supporting his family; and without health, the farmer will be unable to attend to his business, or take part in the labours of his farm. You cannot, therefore, be too careful to preserve unimpaired, that on which so much depends.

Under ordinary circumstances, the preservation of health will in great measure depend upon a person's habits, and upon the nature and sufficiency of his food, his clothing, and his habitation. On each of these we purpose to remark; and we will, in the first place, offer a few general recommendations in regard to health, by attending to which you will, it may be hoped, escape the visitation of sickness; whilst a neglect of them, will too probably entail disease and suffering upon you sooner or later.

Every excess, whether in eating, or in drinking, ought to be resolutely avoided. The appetite satisfied, anything beyond what is necessary for that purpose, is inju

rious; and numerous diseases spring from excess in this respect. In case of indisposition, which will not yield to the application of such simple remedies as are within every person's reach, it is always safest, and in the end will be the best economy, to seek the aid of a competent medical man, whose directions should be strictly adhered to.

Prevention is, however, always better than cure; and as illness may certainly be often prevented by avoiding excess in eating and in drinking, so may it often also be avoided by due care with respect to clothing. Nothing is more likely to occasion chill, and produce fever, than wet clothes. Whilst working, or taking violent exercise, the body is generally enabled to resist the effect of wet garments; but to sit still, or lie down in wet or damp clothes, is almost certain to produce cold, and most likely fever, rheumatism, or other serious ailments. You should therefore endeavour to be always provided with a change of clothing, so as to have dry garments to put on, in case of your getting wet. Wet clothes are the cause of many severe illnesses.

With respect to habitations, much might generally be done for increasing their comfort and convenience, as well as for rendering them more healthful. You should carefully avoid having any stagnant pools, about your dwellings. The exhalations from these, and from collections of dung, and vegetable and other matter in progress of putrefaction, are at all times pernicious, especially in hot weather, inducing fever and other illness. The ground immediately round the house, should be drained, and kept as dry as possible; and the manure and offal of every kind should be removed to such a distance, that no offensive exhalation may reach your dwelling.

The interior of the house is the wife's peculiar province, and her character and estimation with her husband and with her neighbours, will mainly depend upon the order and neatness with which it is kept; and when it is remembered that the comfort and health of her family will also greatly depend upon her activity and good management in this respect, no other incen

tive can be required to stimulate a correct and right principled woman to the vigilant performance of her duty.

However small the rooms, they should be kept dry and clean in every part, and the walls should be whitewashed as often as they require it. No wet clothes must ever be permitted to hang in the room you inhabit. The floors should be swept, and the dirt and rubbish of every kind removed to the dung-pit.

The rooms should be duly ventilated, and especially in the morning, when the doors and windows must be opened, and the fresh air freely admitted. In case of illness, particularly fever, this is of the greatest importance; for without such precaution, infectious fever is sure to spread, and attack every one within its reach. We cannot in fact too carefully attend to the cleanliness and ventilation of our dwellings, as a means of preventing the occurrence of illness, and of lessening its ravages, in case it should unhappily break out among us.

The comfort of every one will greatly depend upon personal cleanliness, and even success in life may be considerably influenced by its observance; for where there is an habitual want of cleanliness in a family, it is certain that the indolent and slatternly habits in which it originates, will influence every family arrangement; whilst the same attention, activity, right judgment, and forethought, which secure cleanliness and good order in a dwelling, will generally extend to other matters, and conduce to success.

FOOD.

Food is the prime necessary of life, and we ought not only to endeavour to obtain a sufficient quantity, but also to direct our attention to the best and most suitable kinds of food, and to the most convenient and economical modes of providing it.

Without being the slaves of our appetites, it is right that every man, whatever his station in life, should

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