The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner. 



which reafon you fliould fow more of 

 them foon after Chriftmas^ on an old 

 hot- bed, or, which is better, on a little 

 dung thrown together, and covcr'd with 

 old melon earth i and with this may 

 be fown radilhes, lettuce, &c. which 

 will be found in the feveral chap- 

 ters of the following treatifej and if 

 the weather be any thing open, you 

 may have good young carrots by the 

 beginning of May. 



Thofe that have but little glafs, as 

 foon as the hot-bed is made (which is 

 to be about four foot wide, two foot 

 and a half high, and three or four 

 yards long, as you like bcft) make a 

 thick twifted band of hay, and going 

 round the edge of the bed, fi^ it by 

 prick'd flicks into the fide of the bed 5 

 after which make a bow or cradle, as i$ 

 commonly feen, or is direfted in other 

 places. 



But the main crop of all, and which 

 is to fupply the kitchen all, or the 

 greateft part of the year, is that which 

 is fow'd in March 5 the ground ought 

 (if it be heavy) to be trench'd and laid 

 in ridges all the winter, that the froft 

 jnay mellow it^ and kiU the weeds 3 and 



