200 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. [MARCH. 



about eighteen inches asunder, covering them half an inch deep, 

 when they come up thin them, leaving the best plants six inches dis- 

 tant from one another, about the beginning of July your first crop if 

 sown in March, will be fit for blanching, at which time you are to 

 earth it up as you do celery, and in three weeks after it, will be in a 

 good condition for use. To have a regular succession of this plant 

 some seed must be sown every three weeks during the season, and 

 your late crops may be preserved in winter as you do celery. 



Capsicums or Red-peppers, Tomatoes, and Egg-plants. 



The different varieties of the Capsicums, Tomatoes, and Egg- 

 plants, being in much estimation for culinary purposes ; you should 

 sow some of each kind now in pots, and forward them in your hot- 

 beds, so as to have strong plants ready for planting out into the open 

 ground as early in May, as the night frosts shall have totally disap- 

 peared. Each and every of these kinds bear transplanting ex- 

 tremely well, and from this sowing you may expect early and abun- 

 dant crops. For further particulars, see April, May, &c. 



Planting out Cabbages, Beets, Turneps, tfc.for Seeds. 



As early in this month as the weather gets open, and tolerably 

 mild, plant out such cabbages, beets, carrots, turneps, parsneps, &c. 

 as you have preserved during the winter to raise seed from ; the cab- 

 bages are to be planted in rows, four feet asunder, one foot distant 

 from each other in the rows, and up to their heads in the earth ; the 

 others may be planted in four feet wide beds, at the distance of ten 

 or twelve inches root from root or in rows, at pleasure ; observing to 

 tie up the shoots, to stakes placed for that purpose, as they advance 

 for seeding, to prevent their being broken down by winds, heavy 

 rains, &c. 



Planting Patatoes. 



Potatoes may now be planted for an early crop, as soon as the 

 weather opens, and that the frost is entirely out of the ground ; let 

 the soil in which you plant them be moderately light, a little en- 

 riched with dung, and advantageously situated. 



Be careful to procure the earliest kinds, from which select a 

 quantity of the best formed and soundest roots, and of a tolerable 

 size ; these are to be cut into sets, a week before planting, in order 

 that the wounds should have time to form a dry crust, for if planted 

 at this season immediately after being cut, they would imbibe too 

 much moisture, many of them rot, and all would be greatly weak- 

 ened thereby : cut each root into two, three, or more pieces accord- 

 ing to their size, minding particularly that each cut be furnished 

 with one or two good eyes or buds which is sufficient. They are 

 then to be planted in rows two feet and a half asunder, the sets to be 

 nine inches distant in the row, and three or four inches deep. Should 

 severe frost ensue protect them by laying some long litter, or 

 wispy dung over the drills. 



