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to be relied on for producing good ana early crops. 

 This vegetable, besides forming an important and 

 profitable article to the market gardener, who always 

 finds a ready sale for it in the markets of this 

 country, will also enhance the reputation of the 

 gardener, who (where there is a range of houses) 

 furnishes this delicate vegetable in the greatest per- 

 fection, nearly the year round. Such was the case 

 during some years of the author's practice, and 

 most likely the same is done by many eminent gar- 

 deners of the present day. 



The following mode of culture is recommended 

 for the first raising of plants for an early crop, in 

 any of the departments before mentioned (but 

 more particularly for the pine stove), by which 

 culture they are prevented from being drawn up 

 weakly, as they frequently are in the stove, during 

 the dreary months of November and December. 

 After this first sowing, a sufficiency of plants may 

 be raised for a succession in pots or pans in any of 

 the houses, where the heat is kept up to 55 or 

 upwards. 



About Michaelmas prepare a bed of good hot 

 dung, about two feet thick, well put together, and 

 six inches wider than a one-light frame, which will con- 

 tain a number of plants. When the bed is finished, 

 the frame and light must be put on ; and if much 

 steam rises, air must be given. In the course of two 

 or three days, the surface of the bed is to be levelled, 

 and a quantity of light rich soil put into the frame 

 to the depth of six or eight inches. As soon as the 

 mould has felt the warmth of the bed, it should be 

 nicely levelled for the purpose of sowing the seed, 



