Perhaps there is no season when the want of a supply of good vegetables fur the family is more felt, than the spring. At this season the winter's stock of every thing but potatoes, is pretty well exhausted, or, which amounts to the same thing, is become good for nothing. The gardener who has, at the opening of the spring, plants of nice salad thai ho has kept through the winter, or grown in the hot-bed in frames, has what may be considered the most important of spring vegetables. Besides this, most ordinary gardeners) will have at this season, only a little asparagus. This is but a sorry show for the kitchen garden; in fact one that any gardener or housekeeper ought to be ashamed of - in a climate where it is as easy to grow vegetables as this.

What ought a good gardener to have ready for the table, simply in the open air, by the first of April? Let us see: German Greens, Sea Kale, Salsify, Rhubarb, Asparagus, Spinach. This is * respectable show, yet every good kitchen gardener in the northern states ought to furnish it as a matter of course, and will do so with a very little care* I shall say a word or two about some of these vegetables- German Greems, or Siberian Kale. The Horticulturist first made this vegetable known to thousands in this country. In Germany and Russia it has been cultivated for a hundred years. It is in reality, a sort of kale or cabbage, growing with spreading leaves like a turnip - but the leaves are much crimpled or curled. It is one of the hardiest of all vegetables - will grow in any soil, and stand all kinds of weather. As soon as the spring opens it commences to grow, and the leaves are fit in a week after to cut for boiling. It is oookcd and served up just like any other kind of "greens," and is something in flavor, between cauliflowers and asparagus - very excellent. The seeds are planted broadcast, like tnrneps, in August and September, and twenty feet square will supply a family.

It is emphatically a poor man's vegetable, requiring so little attention, and affording so much (bod; it will hold its place in the best garden where it is once afforded a trial.