38 THE AMERICAN GARDENER. [Chap. 



were all raised in one single light, four feet by 

 three and a half on a hot-bed, made on the I9th of 

 March. The hot-bed had six lights altogether, and 

 was about twenty feet long ; but, the part appro- 

 priated to these cabbages was only four feet by three 

 and a half. The plants came out of this bed on 

 the 20th of April and were planted three inches 

 apart on another bed, without glass, but covered at 

 night with a cloth. On the 20th of May, they were 

 planted out in the open ground; and, on the llth 

 of June we began to eat them. All these cabbages. 

 Early Dwarfs, Early Yorks, Sugar Loaves, and 

 Battersea, (coming in one sort after the other) 

 amounting to about/(9?/r thousand in number, stood, 

 when planted out, upon rather less than thirty rods 

 ^of ground ; and the earliest sorts, while we were 

 using them so liberally, were selling in New York 

 market at from 6 to 4 pence a piece. 



65. To preserve, during Winter, such a number 

 »of plants, or, indeed, any number, however small, is 

 -a v/ork of great difficulty, and is merely chance- 

 work after all. Besides, fall-sown plants are not so 

 good as spring-sown. They become stunted; and 

 they very frequently go oif to seed, instead of pro- 

 ducing loaves. However, it is not my business to 

 treat here of cultivation : I am here to speak of the 

 Making and Managing of hot-beds. This must, 

 of course, include a description of the Wood and 

 Glass, when formed into Frames and Lights, But, 

 first of all, I must treat of the making of the 

 bed. 



66. The materials of which the bed is to be com- 

 posed, and the manner of preparing those mate- 

 rials, are first to be spoken of. 



67. Dung of horses, cattle, sheep or pigs, is used 

 to make the bed of. Either may be made to dOf 



