Feb.] The Kitchen Garden. 49 



The fcarlet and Alpine ftrawberries are the forts that will 

 fucceed befl ; they fhould be planted in pots, obfendng to 

 take them up and plant them with a ball of earth about, 

 their roots ; but this fliould be done fome time before you 

 place them in the hot-houfe. See next month. 



If the plants for this purpofe were to be potted at Mi- 

 chaelmas, or in Oclober, &c. it would be better. 



Place the pots towards the front of the houfe, near the 

 gla/Tes, and let them have water frequently, efpecially 

 when they are in bloffom, and the fruit young; but ob- 

 ferving, that when they are in bloffom not to water too 

 fteely over flowers, giving it only chiefly to the earth in the 

 pots. 



Of FIo-ivcving-plMifs in the Hot-houfe. 



In the hot-houfe you maylikewife bring many kinds of 

 flowers to blow at an early feafon, by placing pots or boxes, 

 with the plants therein, any time this month. 



Particularly fuch as pots of rofes and honey-fuckles ; pots 

 of carnations, fweet-williams, wall and flock July flowers, 

 &-C. and pots or boxes of any kinds of bulbous roots, planted 

 either in earth or fand. 



FEBRUARY. 



Work to he done in the Kitchen Garden, 



Cucumhers and Melons. 



WHERE the raiflng of early cucumbers and me- 

 lons was not begun lafr month, it may now be 

 commenced the beginning or middle of this with a greater 

 profpeft of fuccefs ; obferving exaclly the fame method in 

 making the feed hot-bed, fowing the feed, and general 

 management of the bed and plants, as direfted under 

 the head cucumbers, &c. in the kitchen garden of January. 



Ridgiyig out early Cucumbers and Melcns taifedlaji Month, 

 If the cucumber and melon plants, which were raifejl 

 the beginning of the laft month, have not fuifcred by artv 

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