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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 180. 



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 

 other general crops, and they will grow large and fine. 



Small Sallading. 



Sow small sallading, generally, about once every week or fort- 

 night; the sorts are lettuce, cresses, mustard, rape, and radish, Sec. 



Dig a bed of light mellow earth for these seeds, arid rake the 

 surface fine. Draw some flat shallow drills ; sow the seeds there- 

 in,, 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 sallading, see pages 118 

 and 183. 



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, salrnon-coloured, and white 

 Naples sorts, should be sown at three different times this month ; 

 by which means a constant supply of young radishes may be ob- 

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

 choosing at this season an open situation for the seed : sow it even- 

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

 up in a few days, and be of a 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. 



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

 now be sown, and treated as directed in page 181. 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 ge- 

 neral time for sowing that, and thc^black winter kind, is June, July 

 and August. 



Stowing Spinach. 



Continue now to sow seed cf the round leaved Spinach, every ten 

 or twelve days, agreeably to the directions given in page 181, 

 which see. Hoe the spinach sowed in the former months, and 

 thin the plants, to three, four, or five inches distance. 



