303 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. 
Immediately 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 sun 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 
