AMERICAN GARDENER. i 



the earliest sorts, while we were using thtftn so 

 liberally, were selling in New York mayket at 

 from 6 to 4 pence a piece. 



65. To fireserve during Winter, such a num- 

 ber of plants, or, indeed, any number, however 

 small, is a work of great difficulty, and is mere- 

 ly chance-work after all. Besides, fall-sown plants 

 are not so good as spring-sown. They become 

 stunted; and they very frequently go off o seerf, 

 instead of producing 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 des- 

 cription 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 

 composed, and the manner of preparing those 

 materials, are first to be spoken of. 



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

 used to make the bed of. Either may be made to 

 do, with a greater or less degree of care and trou- 

 ble ; but, the best possible thing is dung from 

 the stable ^ taken away before it has been rotted^ 

 short and long promiscuously, but rather long 

 than short. If there be a large proportion of 

 short it may have any litter added to it; any 

 broken straw or hay or corn stalks, in order to 

 make a due mixture of long and short. 



68. This choosing of the materials being a 

 very important point, I shall, in order to make 

 my instructions clear, sufijiose a case, and such a 

 case as will be very clear to every American 

 Farmer. 



69. By the month of March he has always a 

 heap of dung, which has, from time to time,, 



