Feb.] THE KITCHEN GARDEN. j^o 



ground a long time before they vegetate, may be sown as early in 

 this month as the ground can be got in a proper condition to receive 

 the seed, which ought always to be a principal consideration; for 



nothing can be worse than to work ground whilst too wet. 1 would 

 not, however, advise to sow more at this time than what may answer 

 for a first early crop. 



Sow a small quantity of beet-seed on a warm border in drills for 

 a first crop; but this ought not to be done till about the end of the 

 month. 



Observe that seeds which are sown in the open ground at this 

 time, cannot have much advantage, as to earliness, over those which 

 may be sown two weeks later; therefore would advise never to sow 

 seeds till the ground is in a good dry state, and proper condition to 

 receive them. 



Solving Peas. 



Towards the latter end of this month, prepare a dry and well 

 situated piece of ground for an early crop of peas, the early-frame, 

 early charleton and golden hotspurs, are the kinds most suitable 

 for this crop, but more particularly the first, though the others are 

 excellent, and will immediately succeed the early-frame. 



Sow each sort separate, and pretty thick, in rows or drills three 

 feet asunder, covering them not more than about an inch and a half; 

 or if the ground be very loose and light, too inches deep; but if it 

 is of a stift' nature, one inch will be sufficient. 



But in order to give the first early crops a greater advantage, 

 prepare a south border of dry light earth for their reception, and 

 raise the earth into narrow sloping ridges, about a foot broad at the 

 base, and nine inches high, and at the distance of three feet from 

 each other; ranging these in a south-west direction from the north 

 side of the border; then on the easterly sides of these ridges, 

 about half their height, sow your drills of peas, giving them the 

 same depth of covering as above directed. In this situation they 

 will have all the advantage of the morning and mid-day sun, lie dry, 

 and will consequently advance in vegetation much more rapidly 

 than if sown in the ordinary way. 



liaising Peas in Hot-beds, fyc. 



Where a few peas are particularly required in the most early 

 season, they may be obtained by sowing some of the early dwarl 

 kinds in a hot-bed, to remain, or rather to be transplanted from that 

 into another; either of which methods should be performed early 

 in this month if neglected in last. These may be sown in a large 

 hot-bed in rows from the back to the front of the bed, to remain: 

 or it would be rather more eligible to sow them thick on a small 

 hot-bed, to be transplanted into a larger when about an inch or 

 two high: and if you have any in an advanced stale you may now 

 transplant them as above, to remain for bearing. But if you have 

 the convenience of a hot-house or forcing-house of any kind, you 



