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But where there is a hot-house you may raise early kidney or 

 French beans, generally with much less trouble and more certain 

 success than in hot-beds, as above. 



Small Suiciding. 



Continue to raise in hot-beds a regular supply of small salading, 

 such as cresses, mustard, rape, radishes, lettuce, &c, as directed 

 in January, pages 19 and 20, which must be sown every eight or 

 ten days, in order to aftbrd a proper succession; for at this season 

 such are more acceptable, and to many persons more palatable, 

 than at any other period of the year. 



Towards the latter end of the month, in the middle states, and 

 in all parts to the southward, you may begin to sow lettuce, and 

 the other different kinds of small salading on warm well sheltered 

 south borders, especially if the great winter frosts have passed 

 away. 



For this purpose dig the ground neatly, giving it an advantageous 

 slope towards the sun, rake the surface fine, and draw shallow 

 drills from north to south about three or four inches distant; sow 

 the seeds therein, each sort separate, very thick, and earth them 

 over not more than a quarter of an inch deep. If the season 

 proves favourable, you may expect tolerable success; but the more 

 certain way would be to cover these beds with frames and glasses, 

 which would not only forward them to perfection at an earlier 

 period, but also protect them from the various accidents incident 

 to such early crops in unfavourable seasons. 



When these plants, both under cover and in the open ground, 

 begin to come up, they sometimes, by rising very thick, raise the 

 earth in a kind of cake upon their tops, which consequently retards 

 their growth; they may be assisted by whisking the surface lightly 

 with your hands, &c. to separate the earth, after which, the plants 

 will rise regularly. 



When those coming up in the open ground happen to be attack- 

 ed with morning hoar frosts, and likely to be a sunny mild day, if 

 before the sun rises full upon them you water them with fresh pump 

 or well water poured out of a watering-pot, with the head on, to 

 wash off the frosty rime, it will prevent their turning black anil 

 going off. 



Cauliflower Plants. 



The beginning of this month plant your autumn sown cauli- 

 flowers in hot-beds, to flower in April and May; garden pits or 

 frames constructed of stone is what is generally used and preferred 

 now for forcing instead of the wooden frames directed in pa^e 10: 

 however, where stone cannot conveniently be had wood will answer 

 by being regularly lined with fresh dung, as directed in page 17. 

 Stone pits are generally made larger than wood, say twenty - 

 four feet long, (which will require six sashes, each four feet wide 

 by five feet ten inches long,) six feet deep at the back, and four 



