Spinach, New Zealand (Tetragonia Expansa)

This may be raised in heat from seeds sown in March, and planted out about the middle of May, three feet apart in every direction; or the seed may be sown in the open ground in April, and as soon as large enough be transplanted on another bed as already recommended. These plants will furnish a supply of leaves from the middle of July to the end of October.

Tomato (Lycopersicum Esculent Urn)

Sow in heat in February and March, and prick out, when large enough, in deep pans of light, rich soil, six inches apart in every direction. After a while a few of the strongest may be potted off separately, and grown on in the greenhouse; the rest should be planted out against a hot wall, three to four feet from each other. Here they must be trained regularly, nipping out the points of the side-shoots from time to time as necessary. The tomato should be supplied with alternate applications of liquid manure and pure soft water. Any full-grown fruit on the vines unripe in the autumn must be gathered and put on a shelf in a sunny greenhouse to be ripened off.

Turnip (Brassica Rapa)

The culture of this is so well understood that it is needless for me to say much respecting it. I am, of course, now dealing with the ordinary turnip for domestic use, and in so doing I would say, in the early part of the season, say from March to May, it should be sown in moderate breadths, and the selection should consist of the earliest varieties of smallish growth. From the middle of June to the end of August the larger sorts should be chosen. Sow broadcast on a good, deep, well-manured soil; thin out as early as possible - weeding them at the same time - to a sufficient distance, which must be determined by the sorts. The small kinds may be nine inches apart, the larger ones from a foot to eighteen inches asunder. In case you find them attacked by the fly, dust the plants immediately with soot or quicklime while the dew is on them ; when, provided the soil be rich, and the weather favourable, they will soon grow out of the reach of the pest, for it is only in their young state they are liable to injury.

Vegetable Marrow (Cucurbita Ovifera)

A rich soil and a sunny position is essential to the growth of this vegetable; and as they come from a hotter climate than ours, it is necessary to prolong the season for them by raising the plants in heat, that they may acquire sufficient strength previous to planting out, and have the entire summer before them for the production of their fruit. Sow the seeds in pots or pans in March or April, and as soon as large enough pot them off singly; by the end of May they will be ready for planting out where they are to remain. Provided beds are prepared for them in the same manner as advised for ridge cucumbers, but with more room for the vines to ramble, the produce will not only be superior in quality, but larger in quantity also, than in beds of ordinary soil; nevertheless, a mound of any kind - one of mere clay with a slight mixture of leaves, manure, and loam - will suit them, and on such a hillock the seeds may be sown in May, in case you have no convenience for forwarding them early in pots under glass. In dry hot weather it will be necessary to give them abundance of water, and occasionally a good drenching with liquid manure. The vines should never be stopped - on the contrary, they should be permitted to grow in their own way.

As leaving fruit on the vines to ripen acts as a direct check to further production, it will be necessary, where a plentiful supply of tender green marrows are required, to remove each one as soon as it reaches maturity.

A Few Of The Best Vegetables

Asparagus

Conover's Colossal and Giant or Batter-sea.

Beans, Broad

Royal Dwarf Cluster, Early Monarch, and Mazagan.

Beans, French Or Dwarf

Fulmer's Dwarf, Black Negro, and Canadian Wonder.

Beans, Runners

Carter's Champion, red; Painted Lady, red and white; and White Dutch, white.

Beet

Sutton's Dark Red, Pine Apple Short Top, and Nutting's Selected.

Borecole Or Kale

Cottager's Kale, and Improved Variegated.

Broccoli

First division, Walcherin; second division, Snow's Winter White ; third division, Cooling's Matchless; fourth division, Knight's Protecting.

Broccoli, Sprouting

Dancer's Purple Sprouting.

Brussels Sprouts

Mein's Victoria and Imported.

Cabbages

Cocoa Nut, Rosette Colewort, Enfield Market, and Large Blood Red, for pickling.

Capsicums

Long Red and Long Yellow.

Carrots

Early Scarlet Short Horn, James's Scarlet Intermediate, and Improved Long Red Surrey.

Cauliflowers

Early London White, Veitche's Autumn Giant, and Sutton's First Crop.

Celery

Cole's Crystal White, and Williams's Matchless Red.

Chili

Long Red and Tomato-shaped Red.

Cress

American, or Land, and Extra-fine Curled.

Cucumbers

For Frame-work, Tender and True, and All the Year Round; for ridging out, Wood's Improved, and Stockwood.

Endive

Imperial White Batavian, and Moss Curled.

Gourds

Improved Mammoth, and Large Green.

Kohl-Rabi

Early White and Early Purple.

Leeks

Musselburgh and London Flag.

Lettuces

Cos varieties, All Heart and Black-seeded Bath; cabbage varieties, All the Year Round and Tom Thumb.

Melons

Sutton's Hero of Bath, Beechwood, and Munro's Little Heath.

Mustard

White and Brown.

Onions

James's Long-keeping, Globe Tripoli, White Spanish and Newnham Park.

Parsley

Sutton's Imperial Curled and Fern-leaved.

Parsnips

The Student, Hollow Crown, and Jersey Marrow.

Peas

First early, Dillistone's Early and Kentish Invicta; second early, Advancer and Sangster's No. 1; for medium or main crop, Best of All, and Laxton's Prolific; for succession, Laxton's Superlative and Veitche's Perfection; and for late crops, British Queen and King of the Marrows.

Potatoes

Kidneys : first early, Ashleaf; second early, Prince of Wales; late, Late Rose. Rounds: first early, Early Oxford; second early, Drummond's Prolific; late, Fortytold.

Radishes

French Breakfast, oval-shaped; Wood's Early Frame, long; Early White and Scarlet, round or turnip; Black Spanish, for winter use.

Savoys

Early Ulm, Drumhead, and Dwarf-Green Curled.

Spinach

Round, for summer; Prickly, for winter; and New Zealand.

Tomatoes

General Grant and Greengage.

Turnips

White Stone, White Dutch, and Orange Jelley (for late use).

Vegetable Marrows

Shirley Hibberd's Prolific Early, Improved Custard, and Long White.