114 The Kitchen Garden. [Mar. 



There are ir.any gardeners, and others, who cannot 

 conveniently procure dung to begin to make hot-beds for 

 cucumbers or melons at an early feafon. Where that is 

 the cafe, it is not too late to begin now ; a hot-bed may 

 be made the beginning, or any time of the month, and 

 the feeds of cucumbers and melons may be fown therein ; 

 the cucumbers from this fowing will be fit to cut by the 

 middle or latter end of May, and the melons in July. 



Cucumbers and Melons for the Bell or Hand-glaJJes, 

 About the eighteenth or twentieth, or any tinr.e tovvards 

 the end of this month, is the time to begin to fow the cu- 

 cumbers and melons, which are to be planted under hand 

 or bell-glaifes. 



They may be fowed in any of the cucumber hot-beds now 

 at work ; or if not convenient, or there are no fuch beds yet 

 made, make a hot-bed for that purpofe for a one, or a 

 two, or three light frame, according to the quantity re- 

 quired ; fow the (zadj and manage the bed as direded in 

 the two former months. The plants will be ready for 

 ridging out the middle or latter end of next month, and 

 beginning of May, and will bear in June and July. 



^ran/planting and fonjoing Caulijlon/:ers» 



Tranfplant the cauliflower plants which have flood in 

 frames, or on warm borders, all winter, if not done lalt 

 month. 



h&t. thefe be planted in a rich fpot of ground. The 

 ground fhould be well dunged with fome good rotten' 

 dung, and afterwards neatly dug or trenched one fpade 

 deep ; taking care to bury the dung in a regular manner,, 

 in the bottom of the trench. Obferve to plant the cauli- 

 flowers in rows thirty inches afunder, allowing them the 

 fame diftance between plant and plant in the rows. 



The ground where this crop of cauiiEowers is to be 

 planted^ may be previoufly fown with fpinach and ra- 

 diihes, as m.entioned laic month. 



Draw fome earth to the ftems of the cauliflower plants, 

 which are under hand or bell-glafles j. it will ftrengthen 

 them and promote their growth. 



1 he glaffes may flill be continued over the plants, but 

 mull be kept continually raifed, at ieaft a hand's breadth 

 high, on props ; or in mild days the glaflTes may be taken 



off* 



