106 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [Feb. 
and, if desired, this is the time to begin to introduce therein some 
pots of good bearing plants. 
The scarlet and alpine strawberries are the kinds that succeed 
the best for forcing; for this purpose they should be taken up and 
planted in proper sized pots, either in the months of September or 
October, as then directed, and protected in garden-frames, till want- 
ed for forcing; but, if the weather permits, you may take them up 
at any time, with balls of earth about their I'oots, planting one good 
plant in each pot; always observing to choose those of two or three 
years old and which are full of bearers. 
Place these pots towards the front of the hot-house, near the 
glasses, and let them have water frequently, especially when they 
are in blossom and setting young fruit; but observing at these 
times not to water too freely over the flowers, for fear of washing 
off" the impregnating farina, giving it chiefly to the earth in 
the pots. 
Of Flowering Plants in the Hot-house. 
You may now introduce into this department many kinds of 
flowering plants, to be forced into bloom at an early season; such 
as honey-suckles, African heaths, double-flowering dwarf almonds, 
and cherries, &c. ; also pots of pinks, carnations, daisies, double 
sweet-williams, rockets, wall and stock-gilly flowers, &c., and pots 
or glasses of any kind of bulbous roots, planted either in earth or 
water, may also be introduced, with a variety of curious annual 
flowers, which may be sown in pots, and forwarded there to early 
perfection. 
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DESIGNS FOR A KITCHEN GARDEN. 
The Kitchen Garden is a principal district of garden-ground 
allotted for the culture of all kinds of esculent herbs and roots for 
culinary purposes, &c. 
This may be said to be the most useful and consequential depart- 
ment of gardening, since its products plentifully supply our tables 
with the necessary support of life: for jt is allowed that health 
depends much on the use of a proper quantity of wholesome vege- 
tables; so that it is of the utmost importance for every person 
possessed of a due extent of ground, to have a good kitchen garden 
for the supply of his family. This garden is not only useful for 
raising all sorts of esculent plants and herbage, but also all the 
