Its devotees appear to derive a certain amount of satisfaction from the mere making of a garden, the laying-out and digging and planting; but it can be imagined that the most enthusiastic gardener would in time become discouraged by a long series of beginnings without any endings to his labors, to a frequent sowing and an entire absence of reaping.

Practical tests have shown that thick sowings of tree seeds give the best results.

Sow at intervals from May till the end of August, but the principal sowing, to stand the winter, should be made the first week in August, giving the plants the protection of a frame.

Her writings were a continual seed-sowing, which later workers fertilised, and brought to maturity.

In the open ground the first sowing may be made about the third week in April, another sowing early in May, and subsequent sowings for succession every two or three weeks until the end of July.

Successional sowings should be made to the end of June, to produce a constant supply till Cauliflowers are ready.

To obtain bloom during the winter and spring successive sowings are necessary.

They are as the implements which cleave and break up the idle fallow, and without their work there can be no prodigal or generous sowing.

The Scotch have a proverb warning the farmer against premature sowing: "Nae hurry wi' your corns, Nae hurry wi' your harrows; Snaw lies ahint the dyke, Mair may come and fill the furrows.