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lettuces about ten or twelve inches distant each way ; water them 

 immediately, and repeat it occasionally in dry weather till they have 

 taken good root. 



For the method of planting the kinds most deserving of cultiva- 

 tion, and other particulars, see page 196. 



Continue to sow a variety of the best kinds of lettuce once every 

 two weeks, that there may be a regular succession. Dig a spot of 

 rich ground for them in an open situation, sow the seed even, not too 

 thick, and rake them in lightly. Scatter a few seeds among general 

 crops, and they will grow large and fine. 



SMALL SALADING. 



Sow small salading generally about once every week or fortnight ; 

 the sorts are lettuce, cresses, mustard, rape, radish, &c. 



Dig a bed of light mellow earth for these seeds, and rake the sur- 

 face fine. Draw some flat, shallow drills, sow the seeds therein, each 

 kind separate, and cover them lightly with earth. 



Water them moderately if the weather should be dry, which will 

 greatly promote their growth. 



For more particulars respecting small salading, see pages 132 and 

 199. 



RADISHES. 



Thin the general crops of radishes where they have arisen too 

 thick, leaving the plants about two or three inches asunder, and 

 clear them from weeds. 



Radish seed, both of the short-topped, salmon-colored, and white 

 and scarlet turnip sorts, should be sown at three different times this 

 month, by which means a constant supply of young radishes may be 

 obtained, allowing about twelve days between each time of sowing ; 

 choosing at this season an open situation for the seed ; sow it evenly 

 on the surface, cover, or rake it well in, and the plants will come up 

 in a few days, and be of proper size for drawing in three or four 

 weeks. 



The crops of early radishes in general should be often watered in 

 dry weather ; this will promote their swelling freely, and will prevent 

 their growing hot and sticky. 



Sow a thin sprinkling of radish-seed among other low-growing 

 crops ; such will generally be found very good. 



Turnip-rooted radishes, of both the white and red kinds, should 

 now be sown, and treated as directed on page 198. Thin such of 

 them as were sown last month to two or three inches apart. You 

 may, likewise, sow some of the white Spanish radishes ; but the gene- 

 ral time for sowing that, and the black winter kind, is June, July, 

 and August. 



SOWING SPINAGE. 



Continue now to sow seed of the round-leaved spinage every ten 

 or twelve days, agreeably to the directions given on page 198, which 



