362 The Garde72ers Kalendar. Dec. 

 obferving to clofe the leaves up regularly, and 

 put it into the ground, almoft to the tops of the 

 plants. 



You may now make hot-beds for Afpara- 

 gus, to fupply the table about the latter end of 

 January ; for, at this feafon, it will be near fix 

 weeks from the time of making the beds, be- 

 fore the Afparagus will be fit to cut, if the beds 

 are of a due temperature of heat. 



About the middle of this month, if the wea- 

 ther is mild, fow fome early Peas on warm bor- 

 ders, to fucceed thofe which were fown the 

 former moRths; and obferve to draw fome 

 earth up about the fl:ems of thofe Peas and 

 Beans which are c^me up, and in bad weather 

 cover them with ftraw or reeds, to protefl: them 

 from the froil ; and if fome old tan is laid over 

 the furface of the ground about their ftems, it 

 will prevent the frofl: from penetrating the 

 ground, and gready protedl the plants. 



Take up Cabbages and Savoys which are 

 defigned for feed, and hang them up in a dry 

 room by their flalksfor a week or ten days, to 

 drain them of moifture \ and then plant them 

 down in a warm border, almoft over their 

 heads, leaving only the upper part of their heads 

 above ground 3 but the earth fhould be raifed 

 in a hill about each, the better to throw off the 



wet. 



