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them into a bearing state, the plants may be first raised ill 

 small pots plunged into a hot-bed, or a small bed may be 

 prepared, 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 bring 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 

 waterings, and earth them up carefully as they progress in 

 growth, to strengthen them. 



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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. Such gardeners as may 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 Cauliflower; and as the frames will not be 

 wanted until the severity of the Winter is past, such plants 

 as may be left at that season, may be protected by a cover- 

 ing 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 trans- 

 planted from the beds into the open ground in the month of 

 March, and be protected by hand glasses. This would 



