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FORWARDING SALAD HERBS, SMALL 

 PLANTS, &c. 



FOR the purpose of raising Mustard, Cress, and other 

 salad herbs, also Egg-plants, Tomatoe- plants, &c. in small 

 quantities, a hot-bed may be made, early in the Spring, of 

 good heating materials, on the top of which may be laid 

 leaf mould, old tan, or light compost, to the depth of about 

 nine inches. The various kinds of seeds may be sown in 

 boxes or flower pots, and plunged in the top mould up to 

 their rims, and by being well attended to, a supply of small 

 salads, as well as small seedling plants, may be raised with- 

 out much labour or difficulty. This method is also well 

 calculated for the raising of Annual flower plants at an 

 early season. 



FORWARDING TOMATOES. 



As this vegetable has become highly appreciated of late 

 years for its excellent qualities, it may be necessary here to 

 observe, that plants raised from seeds sown in hot- beds the 

 latter end of February, or early in March, as directed in 

 former pages, will grow to the length of four inches and 

 upwards, by the first of April, which is one month earlier 

 than they can with safety be trusted in the open garden. If 

 a few of these be pulled from the hot-bed, and transplanted 

 into flower pots, they may be kept growing therein until 

 settled warm weather, and then turned out and deposited 

 in the ground with the balls of earth entire ; or a fruiting 

 bed may be prepared by the first of April, in the manner 

 recommended for Bush Beans, Cucumbers, &c., and the 

 plants inserted in the earth at once ; these will produce ripe 

 fruit a month or six weeks earlier than those cultivated in 

 the ordinary way. 



