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additions of sand will be required after the autumnal dressing, the 

 beds by these additions become unsightly; but cutting off the 

 most aspiring (with its flowering stem) every summer, will keep the 

 whole within proper bounds. Instead of covering with dung or 

 litter, to protect from winter's frost, the frames may be set on those 

 parts intended to be forced, to answer that purpose; and the 

 uncovered parts of the beds may receive a coat of mould out of 

 the alleys, to be drawn back off the sand in the spring. 



The writer of this began to force Sea Kale as long ago as 1798, 

 using hot dung within, as well as without, a frame with glazed 

 lights ; but soon found that, neither the glass nor dung inside 

 was necessary or suitable: he, therefore, afterwards succeeded, 

 by the above plan, to produce the tinest crops of this vegetable, at 

 any time in the winter months ; and can confidently recommend 

 such management, especially to those who have no hot-house or 

 hot-bed frames ; because when there is any early forced house or 

 frames, if old roots are properly selected and potted in the 

 autumn, and placed in such house or frame, where there is suf- 

 ficient heat, and well shut up from light by whelming other empty 

 pots over them, a crop may be had in this way, without the trouble 

 and expense of out«door forcing. 



J. M. 



