190 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [March. 
high, thin the parsneps to four and the carrots to three inches, plant 
from plant, in the rows. 
Some people sow the seeds broad cast in beds, tread them in, and 
then rake the ground; but this method should never be practised 
where the soil is stifi", inclinable to wet, or apt to bind. You may 
sow with these crops a few radish and lettuce seeds; of the latter 
any of the cos kinds are most suitable for this purpose, they not 
being subject to spread like the heading sorts. 
Small Salading. 
Small salading, such as cresses, mustard, radish, rape, and turnip, 
&c. should, when a constant supply is wanted, be sown once a week 
or fortnight, in a warm border, observing to draw some flat shallow 
drills three inches asunder; sow the seeds therein, each sort sepa- 
rate, and cover them lightly with fine earth. 
For the particular method of sowing and treating these seeds, 
see the work of last month, page 125. 
If these young herbs, or any other of your early advancing crops, 
such as peas, beans, &c. are attacked with a hoar frost appearing 
on them in the morning, and a sunny day is likely to follow, let 
them be watered before the sun shines on them with spring or 
pump water, to wash and melt it oft', which will prevent their turn- 
ing black and spoiling. 
Celery. 
If celery was not sown last month, let some seed be sown the 
beginning of this, to plant out in May, &c. for an early crop; sow 
some more of the same seed about the middle, or towards the latter 
end, for a succession crop. The seed should be sown in a bed or 
border of mellow rich earth, sowing it on the surface moderately 
thick, and cover it in lightly with fine mould not more than a 
quarter of an inch; or you may rake it in with a light and even 
hand. Water the bed frequently in dry weather. 
Let it be observed that there are two sorts of celery; one known 
by the name of Italian or upright celery; the other called celeriac, 
or turnip-rooted celery. The first is that which is commonly cul- 
tivated for the general crops, and of which there are several varie- 
ties, viz: common upright celery with hollow stalks, solid-stalked 
celery, red-stalked solid celery, &c., either of which being raised 
from "seed sown as above, is afterwards planted in trenches for 
blanching their stalks, which are the principal useful parts; but the 
celeriac is generally cultivated for its swelling bottom part; and 
being planted either on level ground, or in shallow drills, the roots 
of it swell like a turnip. See April, May, June, &c. 
Broccoli. 
Sow broccoli for early crops, &c. to come in for use in October, 
November, and December, Sic. 
