IN THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 5Q5 



severe frost, or the tops will rot, and this will in time 

 extend down to the root. 



Cover the Mushroom beds thickly with clean dry 

 straw, and do not let the Mushroom-house descend to 

 a lower temperature than 50 degrees of Fahrenheit's 

 scale. 



Look over the Cauliflower plants in frames, and pick 

 off all decayed leaves. Every day the weather is mild 

 and dry, let the glasses be taken off, that the plants may 

 have free air ; but let the lights be put on every night. 

 When the weather is very wet, keep the lights over 

 them 5 but at the same time, if mild, let them be raised 

 at the back of the frames, to let in a large portion of air 

 to the plants. In severe frosty weather, keep the plants 

 constantly covered with the glasses, and other covering 

 of mats, straw, fern, and other long litter j and apply 

 long litter also round the outsides of the frames, when 

 the frost is very rigorous. Cauliflower plants under 

 hand-glasses must be treated in the same manner. 

 Lettuces in frames and under hand-glasses require 

 similar treatment. 



