54 AMERICAN GARDENER. 



pets, or with a slight covering of any sort, which 

 take off again at sun-rise in the morning. 



88. To put out all your plants in this way will 

 require a -very long bed, or many short ones. If, 

 therefore, your number of plants be very large, 

 the best way will be to put out a part of them in 

 this way, leave the remainder in the hot bed a 

 week longer (taking off the lights in the day 

 time,) and then to plant all the remainder out in 

 beds of fine rich earth, in the natural ground, 

 and without any covering. 



89. Now, here we drop, for the present, the 

 subject of Cabbage Plants ; because I am to 

 speak of their culture, under the word, Cabbage, 

 in that part of the work, which will treat of the 

 cultivation of vegetables. I am, in this part of 

 my work, to confine myself to the making and 

 managing of Hot-beds ; and, I have selected the 

 Cabbage Pla?it, as a subject for explaining my 

 meaning, because I think that the raising of that 

 plant is one of the most useful purposes, to which 

 a hot-bed can be applied in America. 



90. But, a Hot-Bed may be applied to many 

 other purposes. Lettuces may be raised in it. 

 Pepper-grass, Raddishes, young Onions, may be 

 raised. Parsley-roots may be put in, and fine 

 parsley obtained in March. Asparagus may be 

 raised in this way. It is not worth while to 

 attempt to bring Cucumbers and Melons to fruit 

 in a hot-bed: but the plants may be raised there, 

 and afterwards put out in the ground with great 

 advantage in point of time. Several sorts of 

 annual flowers and of Green-house plants may be 

 got forward by a hot-bed, which, without it, can 

 hardly be got at all to any great degree of per- 



