Dandelion (Leontodon Taraxacum)

This has a close resemblance to the endive, and is now considered one of the most wholesome, and known to be one of the earliest salading plants we have. Seed should be sown in May and June, in drills six inches from each other; and as soon as the plants are large enough for the purpose they may be thinned out to four or five inches apart in the rows. Plants so treated will be ready for use the spring following.

Egg Plant (Solatium Ovigerum)

This is one of a group which are chiefly cultivated for the extraordinary resemblance between their fruit and the egg of the domestic fowl. The seeds should bo sown in heat in March in wide-mouthed pots, and when the plants are large enough they should be potted off singly in three-inch pots filled with a compost consisting of equal quantities of loam, dung, and peat. As soon as these pots fill with roots change them to the next size, and continue them in the hot-bed; the nearer they are kept to the glass the better, so long as they do not touch. Water them rather freely as they begin to flower, for the fruit takes up a good deal of the nourishment as they swell. When the fruit sets they may bo removed to the greenhouse near the glass, otherwise they will draw. Those intended for cooking may bo turned out of their pots into a bed of rich soil (where they can have shelter), in June, planting them two feet apart in every direction.

Endive (Cichorium Endivia)

While lettuces are to be had this is very little required, but when they become scarce it is eagerly sought after. For an autumn supply seed should be sown in May and June, in drills nine to twelve inches apart, on well-manured ground; and as soon as the seedlings are large enough they will require thinning out to six inches asunder in the rows. For winter and spring use they must be taken up at the end of October and planted closely in a frame or pit. They should not be planted out until fully grown, and then the simplest means of excluding light will suffice to blanch them - this may be accomplished either by tying up or covering with slates or tiles. Another sowing may be made in July or August, according to the climate of the place; and a portion of the produce from this sowing be planted out on a raised bed in a sheltered aspect, the remainder in frames or in any other situation where they will be comparatively dry, and sufficiently protected. Do not, in any case, blanch too many at a time, or begin to blanch them until they have grown large enough to be worth it.

They are very impatient of frost, and must, in consequence, be covered with litter during severe weather.

Garlic (Allium Sativum)

This does best on light, dry, rich, but not recently manured, ground; a fresh hazel loam, newly broken up, suits it, as on such it grows very fine. Plant the bulbs in October or November, or from February to April, in drills nine inches apart and six inches deep, at the same distance asunder in the drills. The plants are soon up and must be kept clear of weeds. The bulbs will have arrived at maturity by the end of July or beginning of August, as will be known by their foliage changing colour; when they may be taken up (leaves, stalks, and all) and dried, tied up in bundles, and hung up for use as required.

Gourd (Cucurbita Varium)

Sow seed about the middle of April on a gentle hotbed, and as soon as the plants are large enough to handle, pot them off two in a pot; grow the plants on until they are well established, they may then be gradually hardened off till the middle of May, when it will be time to turn them out into the open ground. Should the weather prove at all severe, it will be necessary to protect them with hand-glasses for a short time.

Horse Radish (Cochlearia Armoracia)

An open situation, and a deep, soft, sandy loam - neither very dry in summer, nor too wet in winter, suits this root best. The ground should be prepared in the autumn by well manuring and trenching three feet deep, leaving the last trench open till the spring. In February procure the sets: these should be the strongest crowns or leading buds from old plants, and about an inch long. Then begin at the end where the trenching was left off, level the bottom of the open trench, and plant the sets nine or ten inches apart all the way along it, with their crowns upright; then dig another trench two feet wide, as in the ordinary way of trenching, turning the earth into the first trench over the rows of sets, and then plant another, and so on till finished. The bed must be kept entirely free from weeds all the summer, and in the autumn it must be cleared of the leaves. The roots will be fit to take up for use the following autumn.