4f,2 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [Aug. 



Continue to earth up your advancing crops of celery once every 

 ten or fourteen (Jays, observing to do this in a dry day, and pre- 

 viously to break the earth fine with the spade; take care to gather 

 up all the leaves neatly, and not to bury the hearts of the plants. 



Artichokes. 



The late spring plantations of artichokes should be now looked 

 over and treated as directed for the older plants in page 438. 



Small Suiciding. 



Where a constant supply of small salading is wanted, such as 

 lettuce, cresses, radish, rape and mustard, they should now be sown 

 every eight or ten days on a shady border, and frequently watered 

 both before and after coming up. 



Sowing Peas. 



You may any time between the first and fifteenth of this month, 

 or at each period, sow a crop of the early-frame, golden, or Charl- 

 ton hotspur peas; these, should the season prove favourable, will 

 afford you tolerable crops in September. If the weather be dry, 

 soak the peas and water the drills, as directed in page 439. 



Planting Kidney-Beans. 



At any time before the middle of the month you may plant a 

 crop of the early-cream coloured, early yellow, or early speckled 

 dwarf kidney-beans; they will yet succeed very well; but should 

 the ground and weather be drv at the time, the drills ought to be 

 watered, and the beans soaked in soft water four or five hours 

 before planting. 



Sowing and Transplanting Lettuces. 



Early in the month sow a good supply of lettuces for fall use; 

 the kinds proper to sow now are the grand admiral, brown Dutch, 

 imperial, large royal, white cos, Mogul, and New Zealand let- 

 tuces; all these kinds succeed well at this season. Sow them as 

 directed in the former months. A succession crop should also be 

 sown about the middle of the month. 



In the last week of the month sow some of the brown Dutch 

 and hardy green cabbage lettuce, and also some of the ground 

 admiral, to transplant into frames and on warm borders in October, 

 for winter and spring use; for the method of protecting them from 

 frost, see November. 



Transplant from the seed-beds such of your advancing young 

 crops of lettuces as are grown to a sufficient size: let this be done 

 as directed in the preceding months, and, if possible, in moist or 

 cloudy weather; giving them a plentiful watering when planted, 



