38 THE AMERICAN GARDENER. [Chap, 



were all raised in one single light, four feet by 

 three and a half, on a hot-bed, made on the IQth of 

 March. The hot-bed had six lights altogether, and 

 was about twenty feet long ; but, the part appro- 

 priated to these cabbages was only four feet by three 

 and a half. The plants came out of this bed on 

 the 20A of April and were planted three inches 

 apart on another bed, without glass, but covered at 

 night with a cloth. On the 2Qth of May, they were 

 planted out in the open ground ; and, on the llth 

 of June we began to eat them. All these cabbages, 

 Early Dwarfs, Early Yorks, Sugar Loaves, and 

 Battersea, (coming in one sort after the other) 

 amounting to about four thousand in number, stood, 

 when planted out, upon rather less than thirty rods 

 of ground ; and the earliest sorts, while we were 

 using them so liberally, were selling in New York 

 market at from 6 to 4 pence a piece. 



65. To preserve, during Winter, such a number 

 of plants, or, indeed, any number, however small, is 

 a work of great difficulty, and is merely chance- 

 work after all. Besides, fall-sown plants are not so 

 good as spring-sown. They become stunted; and 

 they very frequently go off to seed, instead of pro- 

 ducing loaves. However, it is not my business to 

 treat here of cultivation : I am here to speak of the 

 Making and Managing of hot-beds. This must, 

 of course, include a description of the Wood and 

 Glass, when formed into Frames and Lights. But, 

 first of all, I must treat of the making of the 



;bed. 



66. The materials of which the bed is to be com- 

 ; posed, and the manner of preparing those mate- 

 trials, are first to be spoken of. 



67. Dung of horses, cattle, sheep or pigs, is used 

 o make the bed of. Either riay be made to do. 



