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clemencies of the weather ; and when the beds wherein they are grow- 

 ing become cold and destitute of that warmth so necessary for the 

 above purpose, you must give them a slight lining of fresh horse-dung, 

 to renew the slow temperate heat so congenial and necessary to these 

 plants at this season. 



SOTTING CELERY. 



Towards the end of this month, if the weather permits, prepare a 

 small bed of light rich earth in a warm border, to sow some celery 

 seed therein for an early crop; the best kinds to sow are the solid 

 white, and red celery, both of which are excellent. 



Break the earth very fine, and either sow the seed on the surface, 

 and rake it in lightly, or rake the surface smooth, sow the seed there- 

 on, and cover it with light earth, sifted over near a quarter of an inch 

 deep; or the ground being formed into a three or four feet wide bed 

 and the surface raked, then with the back of the rake trim the earth 

 evenly off the surface about a quarter of an inch deep into the alley, 

 sow the seed on the bed, and with a spade cast the earth over it 

 evenly and rake the surface smooth. 



Though this seed may not come up for a length of time, there will 

 be no danger of its perishing in the ground, and it will be in a state 

 to receive the first advantage of the growing season : if a frame and 

 lights or hand-glasses can be spared to put over it, they will greatly 

 forward its growth ; when raised in this way, though it will not be 

 so early, it will not be so subject either to start to seed or to pipe, 

 as if sown and forced in a hot-bed. 



But those who wish to have celery as early as possible, should sow 

 the seed on a slight hot-bed, and cover it with a frame and lights, or 

 with hand-glasses, or in default of these, cover at night and in bad 

 weather with mats placed on hoops stuck archwise over the beds to 

 support them, being careful in either method, when the plants are 

 come up, to admit the free air every mild day. 



There should not be many of these early sown plants planted out 

 for a continuing supply, only a few to come in before the general 

 crop, for they will soon pipe and run to seed. 



SOWING RADISH SEED. 



Towards the end of this month, if the weather is mild and the 

 ground open, you may dig a warm border to sow therein some early- 

 frame, short-top, white and red turnip-rooted radish seeds, to draw 

 for salads in April and early in May. Dig another piece at the same 

 time for salmon-radish, which will succeed the former. 



Let them generally be sown broad-cast on the surface, either in a 

 continued space, or in four or five feet wide beds, and rake them in 

 with an even hand; or in sowing large crops in one continued space, 

 if quite dry light ground, it is eligible, before raking in, to tread 

 down the seed lightly, then rake it in regularly. 



You may sow among these crops of radishes, a sprinkling of spin- 



