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earthed over with light rich compost, six inches deep, and 

 the Beans planted therein, and covered one inch. 



The second hot-bed should be earthed over to the depth 

 of eight or nine inches, and the Beans transplanted as soon 

 as they are two or three inches high, in cross rows twelve 

 or fifteen inches apart, by three or four inches in the rows, 

 or in clumps a foot apart. When the season is so far advanced 

 that one bed, with the help of linings, will biing the plants 

 well into fruit, the seed may be planted at once to remain 

 for podding ; or if the gardener should choose to mature his 

 crop in the open ground, he may raise his plants in boxes or 

 pots in the month of April, and plant them out in a warm 

 border early in May. 



Beans raised in hot-beds will require considerable atten- 

 tion. Cover the glasses every night with mats and boards ; 

 admit fresh air every mild day, give occasional gentle water- 

 ings, and earth them up carefully as they progress in growth, 

 to strengthen them. 



FORWARDING BROCCOLI AND CAULIFLOWER. 



IN treating of the method of cultivating this family of 

 plants, in the articles under each head, I recommended an 

 artificial climate to be provided for them, so as to induce 

 them to arrive at full perfection in the winter and early part 

 of the spring. Gardeners who have provided frames for the 

 purpose of making hot-beds, in the spring, may make use 

 of them through the winter, in protecting Broccoli and Cau- 

 liflower ; and as the frames will not be wanted until the se- 

 verity of the winter is past, such plants as are left at that 

 season may be protected by a covering of boards, straw, or 

 litter, as occasion may require. 



If Cauliflower be required early in the summer, the plants 

 raised in the preceding autumn should be transplanted from 

 the beds into the open ground, in the month of March, and 



