April.] THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 321 



S?nall Salading. 



Sow small salading generally about once every week or fort- 

 night; the sorts are lettuce, cresses, mustard, rape, radish, &c. 



Dig a bed of light mellow earth for these seeds, and rake the 

 surface fine. Draw some ilat, shallow drills, sow the seeds therein, 

 each kind separate, and cover them lightly with earth. 



Water them moderately if the weather should be dry, which 

 will greatly promote their growth. 



For more particulars respecting small salading, sec pages 125 

 and 197. 



Radishes. 



Thin the general crops of radishes where they have arisen too 

 thick, leaving the plants about two or three inches asunder, and 

 clear them from weeds. 



Radish seed, both of the short-topped, salmon-coloured, and 

 white Naples' sorts, should be sown at three different times this 

 month, by which means a constant supply of young radishes may 

 be obtained, allowing about twelve days between each time of 

 sowing; choosing at this season an open situation for the seed; sow 

 it evenly on the surface, cover, or rake it well in, and the plants 

 will come up in a few days, and be of proper size for drawing in 

 three or four weeks. 



The crops of early radishes in general should be often watered 

 in dry weather; this will promote their swelling freely, and will 

 prevent their growing hot and sticky. 



Sow a thin sprinkling of radish seed among other low growing 

 crops; such will generally be found very good. 



Turnip-rooted radishes, of both the white and red kinds, should 

 now be sown, and treated as directed in page 188. Thin such of 

 them as were sown last month to two or three inches apart. You 

 may, likewise, sow some of the white Spanish radishes; but the 

 general time for sowing that, and the black winter kind, is June, 

 July, and August. 



Sowing Spinage. 



Continue now to sow seed of the round-leaved spinage every ten 

 or twelve days, agreeably to the directions given in page 1 88, which 

 see. Hoe the spinage sowed in the former months, and thin the 

 plants to three, four, or five inches distance. 



Carrots and Parsneps. 



Carrots may now be sown for a full crop; but in order to have 

 tolerable sized roots, in some reasonable time in summer, let the 

 seed be sown the beginning of the month. 



Where, however, a supply of young carrots arc required, it is 

 proper to perform three different sowings this month; the first in 

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