tz The Kitchen Garden. [Jan. 



There being two forts, the common plain, and the curl- 

 ed leaved, the latter is greatly preferable, the leaves being 

 large, thick and bufliy, excellent for culinary ufes, and 

 much admired for garnifli to difhes. Let fhallow drills be 

 drawn for this feed in a dry part of the garden. Sow the 

 feed in the drills tolei-ably thick, and cover it about a quar- 

 ter of an inch deep with earth. 



This feed is generally fown in a llngle drill round the 

 edges of the kitchen garden quarters, or along the edge of 

 the borders next the paths. 



This feed fometimes lies iix weeks or two months before it 

 grows. 



Look over the frames where you have cauliflower plants : 

 and where withered or damaged leaves appear, let them be 

 picked of}', and fufter no weeds to grow among them. If 

 you can conveniently come at the furface of the ground to 

 Jlir it a little, this will be of fervice to the plants. 



In open weather, let the plants have plenty of air every 



day, by railing the glaffes, or by taking them entirely oft* 



when the weather is mild and dry : but keep them clofe 



down every cold night, and do not open them at all in 



'^ fro fly weather. 



In very fevere weather, cover the glaffes every night, 

 with mats, jl raw, or fern, alfo, if there be occafion, in the 

 day-ti'iie, in very rio;orous frofl, and no fun j likewife lay fome 

 litter round the outlides of the frame, for this will be very 

 ufeful in preventing the froil: from entering at the fides. 



Cauliflowers under hand or bell-glafles mufl: alfo have air 

 every mild day^ by railing the glaffes three or four inches 

 high on the warmell fide; in firarp weather keep them 

 clofe ; in fevere irofl, lay fome long litter round each glafs : 

 this will protcrt the plants greatly : but in mild dry wea- 

 ther, the glafles may be taken olT every day, for four or 

 five hours; and in quite mild weather, let the glaffes re- 

 main tilted alfo on nights, to admit full air, to prevent their 

 dravviug up weak, or running into flower, at an improper 

 growth ; but they mufl be kept clofe every cold night. 



PliTnt out Callage Plants, 



When the weather s open, prepare fome ground for cab- 

 bage-plants ; let fome rotten dung be laid on the ground, 

 which Ihould be well dug one fp.ide deep, and the dung 

 properly buiied in the bouom of the treuches. 



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