KITCHEN GARDEN DISPLAYED, <^2 I 



for forcing in hot-beds and forcing houfes, 

 and for oiher early crops. 



To have a conilant fupply of lettuces, the 

 feed is fowed every month, from February cr 

 March, till June or July, for the principal 

 Summer crops of full heading lettuce ; and 

 in Auguft and September for late Autumt* 

 and fome VVinter plants, and a principal part 

 to Hand for Spring, and early Summer head- 

 ing lettuces. 



For ttic early and firll main crops, fow a 

 fmall portion in January or February in a 

 warm border, for earliell Spring fowed ier- 

 tuces, and a larger fupply in March in open 

 compartments, cr in any beds or borders for a 

 full crop; or for the earliefl crop, fome may al To 

 be fowed in a gentle hot- bed, or in a frame, in 

 the beginning of February, efpecially if the 

 Winter Handing plants are cut off by the ieve- 

 rity of the froft in Winter; and in either me- 

 thod, when the early plants are one, two, or 

 three inches high, prick fom.e either on a 

 warm border, four inches apart, or under a 

 frame for better pjotedtion and forwarder 

 growth, or fome in a flender hot- bed to brino- 

 them as forward as pofTible, and in their ad- 

 vanced pricked out growth, when of fome 

 tolerable Ibength, in March, April, and 

 May, a quantity may be thinned out, ahd 

 planted in beds or borders ten or twelve 

 inches afunder, to acquire full fize ; and of 

 thofe fowed in March in open compartments 

 for firft main crops, fliould, when three cr four 

 inches high^ in May and June, be thinned, and 

 O o ferae 



