on, FRENCH GARDENING, AND 



'*"'* OTHER GARDENING UNDER GLASS 



usually one Cos lettuce and three cabbage-lettuce. 

 These are again transplanted to the hot-bed where the 

 radish and carrot seed were sown, and follow the radish 

 in being picked. Lettuce seed is also sown in cold- 

 frames about the first of October and successive sow- 

 ings are made until the end of that month. 



Iimnediately after the lettuces are picked the bed is 

 watered and weeded, and among the growing carrots 

 the cauliflower is set out. Cauliflower is grown under 

 cloches, the seed being sown as lettuce seed is, under the 

 glass or in the open seed-bed, from October to November, 

 and pricked out under the cloches as soon as the plants 

 are well up. They can be planted out in the hot-beds 

 in February, and are ready for market between the 

 middle of May and the first of June. About April the 

 process of hardening begins, and by the end of that 

 month the frames and sashes are removed and the beds 

 stand in the open. During the time the crops are grow- 

 ing under glass, they need a great deal of attention, 

 that neither the sim nor the frost may injure them. 

 For this reason they are covered, uncovered and re- 

 covered several times during each day with mats or 

 frames. 



When the cauliflower is off, the bed is forked over and 

 planted with endive, spinach, celery or other garden 

 crop. When the season's crop has been harvested in 

 October, the soil is gathered up in a great heap, and the 

 beds are topped with decayed manure in the leaf-mould 

 state. This is the best thing to plant in, and if one had 

 enough of it, the crops could be grown on a concrete 



