THE PRACTICAL GARDENTR. 



[Mar, 



the beginning of May, and the cucumbers be fit for use in 

 June aiidJuly, and the melons will be ripe in August. 



HOT-BEDS FOR FORWARDING CULINARY PRODUCTIONS. 



Slight hot-beds of leaves, or dung and leaves, may, Xry the 

 l)cginning of the month, be put up for forwarding early crops 

 of potatoes, carrots, French-beans, cauliflower-plants, celery, 

 broccoli, &c. The potatoes, turnips, and carrots, to be left 

 to produce their crops upon the beds, and the French-beans, 

 cauliflower, broccoli, celery, &c., to be transplanted into the 

 open borders to come to perfection. If the autumn-sown crops 

 of peas or beans have failed, they should, by the beginning of 

 this month, be forwarded upon slight beds in the same man- 

 ner ; and as these crops are found to be improved by trans- 

 planting, the loss may be readily remedied. In sowing peas 

 upon hot-beds, cover the bed with turf cut into small pieces, 

 as hinted at in the Culinary Garden, which will enable the 

 operator to remove them from the bed to their place of intended 

 growth, without injuring their roots or checking their growth. 

 Capsicums, basil, gourds, vegetable-marrow, lettuce, love- 

 apple or tomato, marjoram, savory, &c., should now be sown 

 upon slight hot-beds, to be forwarded in their growth, and to 

 be afterwards transplanted out into situations suited to their 

 respective habits. 



FORCING SALADS, &C. 



Radishes of diflferent sorts, mustard, cress, rape, chervil, 

 and all kinds of salad-herbs, should be sown in succession 

 upon slight beds till the beginning of April, after which time 

 they will succeed sufliciently well in the open air. 



FORCING MUSHROOMS. 



Mushroom-beds may be now put up in the mushroom-house, 

 or indeed at any time in the year ; however, this month and 

 September are generally preferred for that purpose. (For 

 MushroomSf see Culinary Garden.) 



