Aug.] The Kitchen Garden, ^^g^ 



So'njjing Lettuce Seed, and Planting, iffc. 



Sow lettuce feed, at two diiFerent times this month, for 

 afe, both this autumn, and the following winter and 

 fpring. 



The principal forts for fowmg now are the green and 

 white cos lettuce, celicia, brown-dutch, common and 

 hardy green cabbage lettuce ; but may alfo fow fome of 

 any of the other kinds. See tlie catalogue. 



The nrft lowing is to be performed fome time before 

 the tenth of the month, and is to raife plants for fupply- 

 ing the table in September, Odoberand November ; the 

 f^cond lowing mull be done fome time between the eigh- 

 teenth and twenty-fourth of the month ; and the plants 

 railed from this lowing are fome to be planted out in 

 September, for winter fupply ; and others, fuch as the 

 celicia, brown- dutch, common and hardy green, cab- 

 bage lettuce, to remain where fowcd, and thinned as 

 wanted in winter and fpring ; and a good quantity of 

 the cos and celicia lettuces be planted out in September 

 and Oi?i.ober, upon warm borders in order to Hand the 

 winter, tofappiy the table next M*r-ch, April and May. 



Let each fort of this feed be fown feparate ; take care 

 to rake it in evenly ; and, in dry weather, it will be pro- 

 per to water the bed or border now and then where the 

 feed is foivn. 



But fome of the plants raifed from both the firll and 

 fecond fowing, particularly the browii-dutch and com- 

 mon cabbagc^lettuce, may, when fit (that is, in Odo- 

 ber) be planted in Ihallow frames to forward them for 

 winter fervice, where they muii be covered every night, 

 and in all wet, or other bad cold weather, with the. 

 glaffes : and in hard frolls they mull alfo have a thick 

 covering of dry litter (fuch as ftraw, or fern) laid over 

 theglafles; and about the outfides of the frames. If thus 

 properly managed, they will be tolerably well cabbaged 

 in December, January, and February ; at which time 

 they will be efteemed a great rarity, and highly accep- 

 table. 



But if in Odober or November, fome ftout plants of 

 lettuce are tranfplanted from the open ground with balls 

 of earth to their roots, into a moderate hot- bed defend- 

 ded with a frame and glaffes as above, it will forward 

 them to a handfome fize in winter. 



S3 Planting 



