120 CULTURE OF VEGETABLES [CH. 



broadcast. Draw the drills an inch deep, 6 or 8 apart, 

 missing a drill when 7 have been drawn, so as to form 

 an alley. After sowing and covering, tread it in, or 

 roll. If this cannot be done without binding the surface, 

 it will be better to put off the sowing. The best sorts are 

 Strassburg, Reading^ James' Long-Keeping, Trebons^ Globe 

 Tripoli. 



Lettuce. A few seeds of lettuce may be scattered 

 thinly amongst the onions, and if a few plants of Cos 

 Lettuce, which have been raised in frames, can be had 

 from a neighbour, they may be pricked out on a warm 

 border, and each fortnight or so a small sowing made 

 for succession. All the Year Round is a useful cabbage 

 variety. 



Parsnips. About the same time in the early weeks 

 of March parsnips should be sown, and later on, 

 carrots on the same plot and in same way. The drills 

 may be made an inch and a half deep and a foot apart. 

 Three or four may be dropped in the drills, 6 or 8 inches 

 apart, afterwards thinning them out. The Hollow Crown 

 and Student are the best. 



Carrots. Early Horn Carrots may be sown in succes- 

 sion broadcast, in a warm border, during the first open 

 weather, and later, for the main crop, James* Intermediate 

 and Long Surrey. 



It will hasten germination if all these seeds are well 

 mixed with moist rabbit sand, and kept in boxes in the 

 potting-shed for a week before sowing them. 



