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VIII. Plan for Forcing Sea Kale, without covering the Crowns 

 of the Plants with Dung or Litter. In a Letter to the 

 Secretary. By Mr. Thomas Baldwin, jP. H. S. 



Read January 4th, 1820. 



I have sent you herewith, a section of my bed for forcing 

 Sea Kale ; the advantages of the plan here described are, 

 that no dirt from the litter gets into the growing plants, and 

 that the shoots are perfectly free from all mustiness, or bad 

 flavour, contracted from the dung which covers them in the 

 ordinary method of forcing; and though these inconveni- 

 ences are, to a certain degree, prevented by the use of 

 pots made for the purpose, I consider my plan as pre- 

 ferable, where plenty of garden lights are to be obtained. 

 At all events, it is perfectly successful, and it will, per- 

 haps, be thought deserving of being made generally known. 



On each side of a three-foot bed, in which the Sea Kale 

 has been planted, trenches are formed two feet deep, and 

 eighteeen inches wide at bottom ; the side of the frame next 

 the bed is perpendicular, the other side is sloped so as to 

 make the top of the trench at the level of the soil, two feet 

 and a half wide ; this trench is filled with linings of hot dung, 

 on the inner edges of which, garden lights are placed, and 

 the glass kept covered with mats until the Kale is fit to cut. 



