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fettuce, to be transplanted in other beds to be made 

 for it next month. Never neglect to have your beds 

 well covered every night, and severe weather with 

 mats, straw, or litter, ff you have any plants of last 

 fairs raising in frames, admit the air freely every mild 

 day. If you had good plants planted in frames last 

 October, many of them will nov/ be lit to cut, and 

 may continue good till April or May. 



KIDISHES, CARROTS, AND SPLYACII. 

 Sow short-topped radish-seed mixed with carrot- 

 seed on a hot bed eighteen inches high, (see hot bed 

 this month) covered with rich earth seven inches deep ; 

 or spinach-seed may be mixed v, ith the radish-seed ; 

 the carrots or spinach will be tit for use some time af- 

 ter the radishes are drawn out. Sow these seeds 

 pretty thick, and rake them about half an inch deep 

 in the earth. Give air daily ; water two or three 

 times a week, and cover the glasses every night with 

 mats, straw, or litter. 



MINT. 



Make a hot-bed two feet high ; (see formadon of 

 hot beds this month) lay five inches of rich earth upon 

 the bed ; lay roots of mint on the earth, and covei? 

 the roots an inch and half deep with more earth ; give 

 them air daih^ ; water two or three times a vveek, and 

 cover them with mats or straw every rdght. The mint 

 will be in order for sauces and salads in a fortnight. 



MUSHROOMS. 

 Keep 3^our Mushroom bedc^ covered with * traw 

 twelve inches deep at least, to exclude eflectually 

 snow, rain, and cold, else the spawn will perish. — 

 Should any of your covering decay, or get wet thro', 

 replace such with iresh siraiv. New beds may now 

 be made, but the fill is a better time.-:- (See Septera- 



