6o The Kitchen Garden. [Feb. 



with tranfplanted plants : one to be a year's growth from 

 the time of planting before the other ; by which melhod 

 of fov/ing a quantity of feed, and planting out a quantity of 

 plants every fpring, you will, after the hrlt three years, 

 obtain a frelh piece of plants every year, fit for forcing. 



The feafon to fow the feed is the lall: week in February, 

 or firft fortnight in March ; it fliould be fovvn in a fpot of 

 light rich ground ; fow it tolerable thick and tread it down 

 evenly, then rake it into the ground, in a regular manner^ 

 See March. 



The feafon to tranfplant the plants from the feed-bed is 

 in March, obferving the method as direftedin that month. 



The feafon to begin to make hot-beds for forcing thefe 

 plants, is according to the time you defire to have the plants 

 ht for ufe; for initance, if you defire them at Chriltmas, 

 begin in the feccnd or third week in November. 



Such perfons as do not choofe to raife the plants them,- 

 felvcs for forcing, or fuch as defire to be furnifhed with 

 plants for that purpofe till their own is ready,, may in ei- 

 ther cafe be furnilhed with them, at moll of the kitchen 

 gardeners near great cities, but particularly thofe near 

 London, many of whom raife great quantities purpofely 

 for fale,. and at a fit age for forcing. 



They fell them generally by the rod of ground they grow 

 upon, and about eight or ten fliillings is the price : there 

 are generally between two and three hundred roots in a 

 rod ; and tvvo and a half or th^ee rods at mofl, is fuffi.- 

 cient for a three-light frame. 



Thefeplants, if properly packed u^p in hampers, or boxes, 

 with ilraw, may be conveyed to a great dillance : I have 

 had them come fixty miles in the winter feafon for forcings 

 when they have come very fafe, aad produced buds plen- 

 tifully. 



Mujhrooms* 



Take care that the mufhroom beds are ftill well defended 

 from heavy rains and froft ; both of which would deHroy 

 the fpawn. 



The covering of flraw fhould never be lefs than twelve 

 or fifteen inches thick, on every part of the bed. If the 

 wet at any time has penetrated quite through any part of 

 the covering, let the wet ftraw be removed, and replaced 

 with fojae that is clean and dry. 



For 



