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or if for cabbaging or heading, you may sow the white Silicia, 

 grand admiral, large mogul, brown Dutch, or New Zealand lettuces, 

 all of which form good bard heads; for this purpose, they must be 

 sown very thin, and when arrived at a due size, be transplanted in 

 rows into the different borders, &c, as directed in March, leaving 

 a sufficient quantity to occupy the seed-bed, which will head earlier 

 than those that shall have been transplanted. 



If these be covered at night and in very unfavourable weather, 

 either with mats or boards, &c, it will greatly forward their growth. 



But in order to have a few in a more advanced state for trans- 

 planting, and also for early small sallading, you may sow any of 

 the above kinds in a hot-bed, those for the latter purpose very thick, 

 and for the former pretty thin; the cos lettuces, not growing ilat 

 or in a spreading manner, are peculiarly adapted for sowing in 

 hot-beds at this season; but either of the kinds may be sown, and 

 with due care and proper thinning be brought to good and early 

 perfection. 



Lettuces which have stood the winter closely planted in frames, 

 should, about the end of this month, be thinned to about nine 

 inches, or if expected to grow very large, a foot asunder; the 

 plants which are drawn out may be planted into other frames, or 

 into warm borders where they can be well protected with mats, or 

 some suitable covering, till they are inured by degrees to bear the 

 open air; but if the weather is unfavourable, and you have not 

 a sufficiency of frames to receive the plants, it will be better to defer 

 this work till next month, being particular to pick oft* all decayed 

 leaves, and to stir the earth a little about the roots. 



Solving Carrot Seed. 



When carrots are desired at an early season, some seed may be 

 sown in a slight hot-bed in the beginning or middle of this month; 

 make this bed two and a half feet high, put on the frame, and cover 

 the bed with light dry earth six or eight inches deep; sow the 

 seed thinly on the surface, and cover it about a quarter of an inch, 

 with the same kind of earth; when the plants are up give them 

 plenty of air, and thin them as they advance in growth; keep the 

 glasses well covered at night, and in extremely severe weather, and 

 in April you may expect handsome roots. 



This seed, if sown as above, towards the latter end of the month, 

 will succeed very well without the assistance of glass, if the bed 

 is carefully covered at night, and occasionally, as the weather may 

 happen to be severe, in the day time, with garden mats, &c; you 

 mav also about the end of the month, sow a small quantity of car- 

 rot seed, on a warm border of light, dry, rich earth, and, if the 

 season proves favourable they will succeed tolerably well, anil be 

 fit for use at a very acceptable period: for the method of doing 

 which, see March. 



Parsnepa ami Beets. 



Parsneps being very hardy plants, and the seeds remaining in the 



