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KITCHEN GARDEN. 



at this season. Never suffer decayed leaves to re- 

 main a day among your plants. If your house has 

 shutters, shut it up by sun down, or rather before, 

 and open a^ soon as the sun can reach the windows. — 

 If it*lias a flue and no shutters, you will frequently 

 have to make fire at nights, which should be before 

 the air g^ts cool. All green houses ought to have a 

 flue, as it often happens that shutters are insufficient 

 to exclude the frost. 



FEBRUARY. 



horse-radish. 



About the end of this month plant in rows eighteeo 

 inches apart : take cuttings an inch or two long, either 

 o£ offsets, or tops of main roots ; or knotty roots cut 

 .so as to have two or three eyes on each cut : the last 

 are worst. Plant in a light deep soil (dug at least a 

 spade deep) either with a dibble, or by trenching. 

 The plants must be six inches asunder and fifteen inches 

 deep, the crown or top bud uppermost, and the holes 

 must be filled up with earth. You may sow over the 

 horse radish a crop of spinach, which will be fit for use 

 next may, if kept clear of weeds. Next fall the radish 

 may be used, but will be better for another year's 

 growth. It must be trenched oat row after row; cut 

 the trenches about thirteen inches deep, so as not to 

 loosen the stool or root, and cut the radish with a knife 

 close to the stool ; those stools will continue to produce 

 good crops several years if you clear the stools of 

 straggling fibres, and draw up all plants that rise be- 

 tween the rows. This month, horse radish should be 

 planted in moist ground : in the fall it should be planted 

 in dry ground. 



MUSHROOMS. 

 Attend mushrot>m beds as directed last month. 



