The Vegetable Garden

There is nothing so much relisfoed in early spring as the first vegetables - it hardly matters what they are. Many of these things can be forwurded several weeks by the use of glass, and consideriiag how theaply this may be had, itis s? wonder tha-t more hot bed Yegetation not indulged in. Kadishïs, lettace, asparagus, strawberries- these in particular caá be forwarded by simple frames, withsu-t the íiid ot' mamire, utthough whcre this can be had of courso it is an advantage. An asparagns bed,, niade in the open ground, of such length and width that any desired frame Will eover it, uiayhave rich soil put over it inside the frame, several inehes - even six or moro,, and on this radishes and lettuoes be sown. ïhe radishes will be in use before the lettace is muoh int erf e red with, and the asparngus will not find muoh in tho road when it pushes through. For this kind of cold frame it is best to have the glass slope very much to the south. If the frame be made say, to feet abovo the ground at the back, and six or nine inches in the front it will be all tho better. ThesP cold frames may be much aided by having an evergreen hedge on the eold side. This will nuike a shelter from the wind, and very much help in the earliness. A sttawberry bed in the open ground wil] yield fruit nearly two weeks eaiiier if a lovv glass frame be put over the plants. A very littio heat tickles tho strawberry, and will make it laugh indeliciousberryness. Even the planting on è warm rich bank, sloping to the sun will giveus fruit considerably in udvanco of tho level and flat groivnd, Ingetting ready for spring vegetables do not fear to pile on the manure. It is the rank, rich growth wlnch gives the agreeable tenderness to them, and without an abundance of manure this cannot be done. Deep soil is also a great element of success. Though we do not faver subsoilinit or tmderdraining for fruit tn.vs, we regard it as protitable ia vegetable growitig. In arrangiag new vegetable gardens, it is always best to have it in a parallelogram, as whether it is to be worked by a plow or the spade, this forin saves much timo and labor. Those wlio have not much money 1O spare, or who aretogrow vegetables on a largo scala, will want to use the plow, and for this a long narrow strip is proferable to a square, Poi this, one -walk throBgh the center may be enough, and box edgings, or even a narrow grass border may do to line the walk. This is a very good arrangement for a farm garden. Along side of this walk may be the cuvrants and gooseberries, and ewn garden üowers, or a fow or 80 of dwarf pears or dwarf apples or strawberrie-vor other low growing thiugs that would not do to grow in the land which we #ant to keep under the plough. At each end of tire loug narrow strip, space can be left for the plaugh to turn. The walk porhaps may be adl of grass, made level, and neatly mown. Du-ring the year, as the successive crops are to be put in, the digging fork will easily prepare tho ground once ploughed in spring; even in thoso neater kept gardens whore the plough does not enter, tho digging fork will be found to do fourfold the work of the spade in the same time. But whether the plongh or spade be used, and in whatever way the garden be laid out, we should take care to httve overything. neat and in order, It annoys U3 considerably when asked to look at some friend's garden, to see thiugs skvonly and untidy. When we hint as mueh- for we ncver hesitato to say, in as kindly a w.ay at possiblev just what wo think of such neglect, we are remiuded that it may ba all very well tor fine peopls to have fino gardons, and things kept nice, but they uive ív living to get, and such work ''don't iay." We gct out of patiencc with suoh acople. As a general rule it -will be íovmd that it takes no more timo to do things neatly than nntidily. There never was a truer saying than that lazy ptople tako tbe roost trouble. ïheie is no more excuse for a dirty, untidy garden, than for going with one's clothos torn, or neshed