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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



[Jan, 



SOWING SMALL SALADING. 



Cresses and mustard may now be sown on some sheltered 

 dry border at the bottom of a wall or pales. But where there 

 is the convenience of a common garden-frame, it will be better 

 to sow either under it or hand-glasses. 



The most certain and least troublesome method to keep up 

 a supply of small salading at this season, is to sow the seed in 

 flat boxes, or pans, in decomposed or rotten tan, or any other 

 light vegetable matter, and place them either in the cucumber 

 pits or frames, or in the hot-houses over the flues, or in any 

 other place not too much shaded, and unoccupied with other 

 plants ; attending to sow every second or third day, according 

 to the consumption. The same mould will produce a number 

 of crops without being renewed. 



MINT. 



At this season mint is in demand for salads and sauce, &c. ; 

 let a few pots be placed in any of the forcing-houses now at 

 work. 



ASPARAGUS. 



For forcing of, see Forcing Garden. 



FRENCH BEANS. 



For forcing of, see Forcing Garden, 



RADISHES. 



About the beginning, or any time this month, when the 

 weather is open and mild, sow some short-topped radishes to 

 come in as an early crop on a warm border, sloping towards 

 the sun, and under a wall or other fence, and towards the 

 middle or latter end of the month sow a crop of salmon ra- 

 dishes to succeed the short-topped. 



Never mix the seed of both sorts, but let each sort be sown 

 separately ; for the short-topped will come into use sooner by 



