The T?raBtcal Kitchen Gardmer, 389 



In and 2iho\xt London y in this monxh.Tbe I a I? our 

 we muft certainly expcd to fee the be- 

 ginning of a great deal of buille and 

 adivity in garden-works, if the fnow and Februa- 

 froft is over; and now it is that it wilV^' 

 appear who are the gardiners that have 

 been idle, by their not furnifhing us with 

 thofc things which the skilful and dili- 

 gent ones fupply us with 5 and by neg- 

 leding to fow their grounds, which for 

 the moft part lie unfown, tho' the wea- 

 ther be open, and they have leifure for 

 fo doing, towards the middle or latter end. 



There ought to be no more time loft 

 in fowing of the firft feeds that are to be 

 fown in the naked earth, and of which 

 we have fpoken in the works to be done 

 about the end of January, Good gar- 

 diners ought to cover with frefli mold 

 the cold beds which they have fown with 

 their tender feeds, for fear the waterings 

 and great rains fhould beat down the earth 

 too much, and render its fuperficies too 

 hard for the feeds to pierce and fhoot 

 through: they fhould alfo bank up their 

 cold beds tightly with a fpade and rake, 

 to prevent hafty rains from fpoiling the 

 form of them , and in fine, if they have 

 iiever fo little of the fpirit of nsatnefs 

 c 3 ill 



