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When the weather is very wet or cold, keep the glasses on, and 

 should the frost set in rather too severe towards the end of the 

 month, you must give the necessary covering so as to prevent the 

 plants from getting- frozen ; but be careful to admit air to them at 

 every favourable opportunity. 



In the first week of this month, you should plant into the frames, 

 if omitted in October, such lettuces as are designed to be wintered 

 therein, this should on no account be delayed to a later period. 



On the approach of severe frost protect your lettuces on warm 

 borders, Sec. as directed in page 504. 



N. B. Lettuces make a most delicious boiled sallad, which in the 

 estimation of most people who have tried it, is much superior to 

 spinach. This observation escaped my recollection while writing 

 the work of the summer months, where it might have been more 

 appropriately inserted ; as then, thousands of heads start to seed and 

 are totally lost, which might be profitably used in this way. They 

 are generally in an excellent condition for this purpose, at any time 

 from the period of their having attained a sufficient size, till the 

 hearts or center stems have shot towards seeding six or eight in- 

 ches high, so that when they are past use for a raw sallad, they 

 are yet good for a boiled one. 



Small Sallading. 



Small sallading of every kind will now require to be sown on a 

 slight hot-bed, under the protection of frames and glasses ; other- 

 wise disappointment will ensue, especially if the cold sets in early. 

 In mild weather admit plenty of air to give strength to the plants. 



Garlick Rocambole, and Shallots. 



You may now plant garlick, rocambole, and shallots ; the earlier 

 in the month that this is done the better. When planted at this 

 season in dry, light, rich ground, the roots will be much larger 

 than if deferred till spring. The bulbs of the common garlick or 

 Allium sativum, grow to a larger size than those of the rocambole, 

 or Allium Scorodofirasum^ but som^ people conceive the latter to be 

 of a better flavour. 



The true shallot, or Allium ascalonicum, is considered to possess 

 the most agreeable flavour of any of that genus, and is, conse- 

 quently, highly deserving of cultivation. 



For the method of planting each of the above sorts, see page 190 ; 

 but in planting the bulbs produced on the tops of the garlick and 

 rocambole stalks, observe to cover them only about two inches 

 deep, as they are not so large or strong as the cloves of the roots. 



Cabbage and Cauliflower Plants. 



During the continuance of mild weather, give your cabbage and 

 cauliflower plants every advantage of free air, to inure them by de- 

 grees to bear the cold, by taking the glasses off totally, in the 



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