42 AMERICAN GARDENER. 



in six days, turns a brown rye-field into a sheex 

 of the gayest verdure; this sudden transition 

 presents the gardener, or the farmer, with ground 

 well chastened by the frost, smoking with fer- 

 mentation, and with a sun ready to push forward 

 every plant ; but, alas ! he has no plants ! I 

 know, that there are persons, who do preserve 

 lettuce, cabbage, and other plants, during the 

 winter, and that there are fiersons^^rtio rear them, 

 on Hot-beds in the Spring ; but" what I aim at, 

 is, to render the work easy, to farme rs in parti- 

 cular; not only as the means of supplying their 

 tables, but the stalls of their cattle, and the 

 yards of their sheep and pigs. In the summer (a 

 cruelly dry one) of 1819, who, within many 

 miles of my house in Long Island, had a loaved 

 cabbage, except myself ? During June^ July 

 and August, I allowed fifteen a day for my own 

 family : I gave ten a day to one neighbour ; to 

 others I gave about Ji~ve hundred, perhaps, first 

 hot-bed, made on the 19t/i of March. The hot- 

 bed had six lights altogether, and was about 

 twenty feet long ; but, the part appropriated to 

 these cabbages was only four feet by three and a 

 half. The plants came out of this bed on the 

 20th of April, and were planted three inches 

 apart on another bed, without glass, but covered 

 at night with a cloth. On the 20M of May, they 

 were planted out in the open ground ; and, on 

 the \7th 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 



