Sept.] 



The Kitchen Garden. 41? 



Make the beds the length andwidth of one or more cu- 

 cumber or melon frames, " 



Then let feme good plants of fhe brownDutch, cos, and 

 common cabbage lettuce be taken up from fome tranf- 

 planted beds, with balls of earth about their roots, and 

 planted therein, about fix or eight inches afunder each 

 way, and watered x 



When the weather begins to grow cold, next month, 

 &c. you may put the frames over the beds, and cover 

 them with the lights occafionally, and other covering 

 when the weather is fevere. 



Thefe, if the winter proves any thing mild, and ma- 

 naged as the laft month, will be moderately well cab- 

 baged, fit for the table in November and December^ 

 &c. and by planting more in Odober and beginning of 

 November, you will have thefe forts of lettuces tolera- 

 bly well cabbaged in January and February, and ex** 

 ceeding fine in March. 



Caulijlonxeri.- 



The cauliflower' plants which were fown \x\ Auguft 

 will require to be planted out into a nurfery-bed about 

 the middle or twentieth of this month, or thereaboutt. 



Let a bed be prepared for them in a well fheltered part 

 of the garden, where it lies well to the fun. 



Make the bed in the fame manner, and obferve the 

 fame rules as mentioned the lafl month, in the article of 

 Cauliflowers. 



Mind to draw out fome of the bell plants from the 

 feed- bed, rejeding fuch whofe Hems are crooked and 

 bkck J clear the plants from decayed and damaged 

 leaves. 



Plant them in rows about three" inches afunder, and 

 allow near the fame diftance between plant and plant in 

 the row, obferving not to plant them fo deep as to bury 

 their hearts, for that would dellroy them. 



When you have planted the whole, give the plants a 

 little water to fettle the earth to their roots: obfervino- 

 not to apply the water too haftily, fo as to break their 

 leaves, or wafh the earth into their hearts. 



• Then, if the plants are fmall, or backward in growth, 

 you may put on the frame, and alfo the lights ; the 

 glalTes are to be continued only for a few days, till the 

 plants have taken root; obferving, till that period, to 



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