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contains an acid as fine as the Gooseberry, for pies and tarts j 

 a' square rod of ground will supply a family ; and it may be 

 used till midsummer or later. [For fuller explanations y see 

 m^ticle Rhubarb.] 



FORWARDING SALAD HERBS, SMALL PLANTS, 



For the purpose of raising Mustard, Cress, and other salad 

 herbs, also Egg-plants, Tomato plants, &c., in small quanti- 

 ties, a hot-bed may be made, early in the spring, of good 

 heating materials, on the top of which may be laid leaf mould, 

 old tan, or light compost, to the depth of about nine inches. 

 The various kinds of seed may be s»wn in boxes or flower- 

 pots, and plunged in the top mould up to their rims, and by 

 being well attended to, a supply of small salads, as well as 

 small seedling plants, may be raised without much labour or 

 difficulty. This method is also well calculated for raising 

 annual flower plants at an early season. 



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As this vegetable has become highly appreciated of late 

 years for its excellent qualities, it may be necessary here to 

 observe, that plants raised from seed sown in hot-beds the lat- 

 ter end of February, or early in March, as directed in former 

 pages, will giow to the length of four inches and upward by 

 the first of April, which is one month earlier than they can 

 with safety be trusted in the open garden. If a few of these 

 be pulled from the hot-bed, and transplanted into flower-pots, 

 they may be kept growing therein until settled warm weather, 

 and then turned out and deposited in the ground with tlie 

 balls of (3arth entire ; or a fruiting-bed may be prepared by 

 the first of April, in the manner recommended for Bush 



