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But where there is a hot-house you may raise early kidney or 
French beans, generally with much less trouble and more certain 
success than in hot-beds, as above. 
Small Salading. 
Continue to raise in hot-beds a regular supply of small salading, 
such as cresses, mustard, rape, radishes, lettuce, &c., as directed 
in January, pages 19 and 20, which must be sown every eight or 
ten days, in order to afford a proper succession j for at this season 
such are more acceptable, and to many persons more palatable, 
than at any other period of the year. 
Towards the latter end of the month, in the middle states, and 
in all parts to the southward, you may begin to sow lettuce, and 
the other different kinds of small salading on warm well sheltered 
south borders, especially if the great winter frosts have passed 
away. 
For this purpose dig the ground neatly, giving it an advantageous 
slope towards the sun, rake the surface fine, and draw shallow 
drills from north to south about three or four inches distant^ sow 
the seeds therein, each sort separate, very thick, and earth them 
over not more than a quarter of an inch deep. If the season 
proves favourable, you may expect tolerable success; but the more 
certain way would be to cover these beds with fram.es and glasses, 
which would not only forward them to perfection at an earlier 
period, but also protect them from the various accidents incident 
to such early crops in unfavourable seasons. 
When these plants, both under cover and in the open ground, 
begin to come up, they sometimes, by rising very thick, raise the 
earth in a kind of cake upon their tops, which consequently retards 
their growth; they may be assisted by whisking the surface lightly 
with your hands, &c. to separate the earth, after which, the plants 
will rise regularly. 
When those coming up in the open ground happen to be attack- 
ed with morning hoar frosts, and likely to be a sunny mild day, if 
before the sun rises full upon them you water them with fresh pump 
or well water poured out of a watering-pot, with the head on, to 
wash off the frosty rime, it will prevent their turning black and 
going off. 
Cauliflower Plants. 
The beginning of this month plant your autumn sown cauli- 
flowers in hot-beds, to flower in April and May; garden pits or 
frames constructed of stone is what is generally used and preferred 
now for forcing instead of the wooden frames directed in page 10: 
however, where stone cannot conveniently be had wood will answei- 
by being regularly lined with fresh dung, as directed in page 17. 
Stone pits are generally made larger than wood, say twenty- 
four feet long, (which will require six sashes, each four feet wide 
by five feet ten inches long,) six feet deep at the back, and four 
