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without a hot-bed 5 but where there is the con- ten or twelve days old, whilst ihey remain 



vemence of hot-beds in which to plunge the mostly in the - e , cut up close 



pots of slips of tender plants, it runs them off to the ground for use; lor, bein 



more expeditiously: and most hor-house plants warm relish, in which consists their chief ex- 



in particular require that assistance. cellence for winter and spring salads, if suffered 



But many shrubby plants growing into large to grow large, and run into the rou-m leaf 

 bunches from the root of the small under- they become of a disagrei hot 

 shrubby kinds, a« thyme, savory, hyssop, sage, taste; but when used as a ; ey eat ex- 

 be.- as- well as those of larger growth, as roses, ceedingly tender, with an agreeable warm Ha 

 spiraeas, raspberries, and numerous other sorts, vour. 



may be slipped quite to the bottom into separate For the purpose of salading, th.-se plants 



plants, each furnished with roots, and planted may be obtained young al all times of the year 



either in nursery-rows, or at once where they in spring and summer in thi tund, and 



are to rcmam. in winter under the shelter of" frames and glass 



And as to the slipping of herbaceous plants, and occasionally on hot-b ds. 

 various sons multiply by the roots, &c. into This sort of salading is procured by sowing 



large bunches, which may be slipped into many the seed-, of the different plants at different times 



separate plants, by slipping off the increased throughout the whole year. 



suckers or offsets of the root, and in some sorts Winter mid Spr'mg Culture. — In the winter 



by the offsets from the sides of the head of the and spring it may be raised either in hoi-beds or 



plants, anil in a few sorts by slips of their hot- in the- open border-, and, according as it may be 



torn shoots, as well as of the stalks and branches required, early or late; but when il is required 



in plants of bushy growth; but the greater part as early as possible, it must be sown in hot-beds 



by slipping the roots, as in many of the bulbous 

 rooted tribe and numerous librous-rooted kinels 

 of plants. 



The slipping of the bulbous plants is performed 



under frames and lights, eve. or in a bed or bor- 

 der of natural earth under glasses. 



The sowing should be made on hot-beds any 

 time in December, January, or February ; anil 



in summer when their leaves decay, the roots where a considerable supply is daily required] may 



being then taken up, slipping off all the small be continued sowing every week or fortnight in 

 r-tlsus from the mam bulb, which are generally hot-beds till March, or during the cold weather. 

 soon planted again in nursery-beds for a year or for which a moderate hot-bed of dung should' 

 two. See Bulbous Roots. be made for one, two, or more sarden-frames, 

 In the fibrous-rooted sorts, the slipping but only half a yard or two feet dt-plh of dung, 

 should generally be performed in the spring or according to the temperature of the season, as the 

 early part of autumn, which may be effected heat is onlv required to bring up the plants 

 either bv slipping the outside offsets with roots, quickly, and forward them a week or two in 

 a- the plants stand in the ground ; or more ef- growth, placing; a frame directlv thereon, and 

 fectnally, by taking the whole bunch of plants moulding the bed all over with light rich earth, 

 up, and slipping them intoseveral separate parts, five or six inches thick, makingthe surface level 

 slip being furnished also with roots, planting and smooth ; when, if it is to be forwarded as 

 them, it small, m narsery-rows for a year, to much as possible, directlv sow the seed, which 

 gam strength; or such as are strong maybe may be done either in drills as shallow as pos- 

 planted at once where they are to remain. See sible, about two or three inches broad, and (lat 

 the Culture of the different sorts. at the bottom, and thre inches asunder, sowing 

 SMALLAGE. SeeApiUM. the seeds of each sort separate and very thick. 

 SMALL SALAD HERBS, such young so as almost to cover the around, onlv just co- 

 tender heibs as are made use of through the vcring them with earth; or, to make the most 

 year for the purpose of furnishing salads. For of the bed, it may be sown all over the surface, 

 this use several young seedling herbs of a warm previously smoothing it lightly with the b . 

 nature are in request To mix with the larger prin- the spade, the different sorts Separately, and all 

 cipal Salad Herbs, as lettuces, endive, and very thick ; and after pressing them all ['even and 

 celery, in order to improve their flavour and lightly down with the spade, covering them very 

 wholesome quality. thinly with earth, by sifting over as much light 

 The sorts mostly in use are cresses, mustard, Mould as will onlv just cover the teed ; and" as 

 radish, rape, and turnep ; also sometimes cab- soon a- the Bowing is performed in either ,ne- 

 bage-lcttuce for winter and earry spring use; thod, putting on the lights: the seeds 

 all ot which tor this use are in perfection when conic up, as in two or three days or l< 

 quite young, thai is, not more than a week or careful at this time to give vent to the steam 

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