4''-0 THE.KrrcH£i<r Garden. [Sepr,- 



latter end of the month, in three feet wide beds, in row: 

 fix inches diilance. . 



Alfo, about the laft week in the month, dig a warm 

 fouth border under a wall, &c for a principal fupply t)f 

 thefe plants to Hand ever the winter, rake the furface 

 even and fmcoth : then let fome of the bell plants be 

 tak'en up from the feed-bed, and pick oft broken and 

 decayed leaves, and trim the ends of their roots a lit- 

 tle, and put the plants in rows, lengthways of the bor- 

 der, about four or five inches afunder, and allow the 

 fame diftance between the rows. 



If the. plants furvive the winter, one half may be 

 thinned out regularly in the fpring, and planted in a 

 more open expofure ; the reft may remain in the border 

 to cabbage early. 



But obferve, if no lettuce- feed was fowrt in the third- 

 ©r fourth week in Auguft, to raife plants fcr the borders, 

 as above; you mull not in that cafe onut to fow fome 

 for that purpofc, fome time in the flrft week of this 

 month, which indeed will be foon enough ni warm rich 

 grounds. ' , 



Sonv Lettuce tc plant in Frames for Spring Ufe, 



About the middle, or any time bet'^een the tenth and 

 twentieth of this month, you ihibuld fow fome lettuce of 

 different forts to plant in frames in Odober.to Hand the 

 winter for ufe next fpring, and early in the fummeri 



Thefe m.ay be protetled in frofty or very wet weather, 

 by covering them with glafTen, and other coverings when 

 neceffary ; and if thofe which are pla'nted in the open 

 borders Ihould be cut off, thefe will be ready to fupply 

 their place. 



The beft luttuces for this purpofe are the cofs, brown 

 Dutch and Siiefia, biTt particularly the llrll mentioned 

 fort ; and the feed Ihouid be fown in a bed or border of 

 lich earth in a Warm fituation. 



F hinting Lettuces in frames for Winter Ufc. 



If you defign to have lettuces in good perfection for 

 the table in the winter months, you ihould, about the 

 latter end of this month, prepare one px more beds of 

 rich earth, in a part of the garden where the ground is 

 drieft, ind lies well to the foalh fun. 



Make 



