314 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN, [April. 
under hand or bell-glasses. For this purpose, make trenches three 
feet wide, and two deep, in a warm dry part of the garden, and fill 
them to the surface, with good fresh horse dung, as directed in Ja- 
nuary for other hot-beds; then you may either earth them direct- 
ly, or in two or three days after, when the dung will be settled, and 
the heat arisen to the top of the bed, laying from seven to nine 
inches thick of light rich earth over every part. 
When this is done and all the surface made smooth, lay on your 
hand or bell-glasses, in the middle of the ridge, four feet asunder, 
and keep them close down, till the dung has thoroughly warmed the 
earth, then proceed to put in the plants. 
You may plant under each glass two strong melon plants, or three 
cucumbers; observing if possible, to remove and plant them with 
balls of earth about their roots. 
As soon as they are planted, let them be moderately watered, and 
directly set on the glasses: if sunny weather, and the sun power- 
ful, shade them a little with a mat over each glass; and repeat the 
waterings occasionally, once or twice a week, according to the de- 
gree of warmth in the bed, and temperature of the weather; but 
let moderation be always observed, in performing this work, espe- 
cially when newly planted. 
When the plants are well taken with the ground and growing 
freely, give them plenty of air, by raising the glasses on one side, 
and when they have grown so large as to run out under the glasses, 
let these be raised on brick-bats, stones, or pieces of wood, to give 
full liberty to the plants, and do not take them off totally, till to- 
wards the end of May. 
Cucumber and melon seeds may be sown about the middle of 
this month, on ridges made as above, and protected with glasses; 
these will be much earlier, than if sown in the beginning of May, 
in the open ground, and much more profitable to market-gardeners. 
Planting Cauliflowers* 
In order to have cauliflowers in good perfection, you must be 
provided with stout early plants, such as are strong, and, in the 
middle states, perfectly fit for planting out, early in this month: 
being furnished with these, select a piece of very rich loam, rather 
inclining to moisture, but by no means wet, and such as will not be 
subject, either to burn or become stiff and bound by severe drought, 
always avoiding sand, or clay, as much as possible; give it at least, 
four or five inches deep of well rotted cow-dung, or if this cannot 
be had, other old manure; dig or trench it one good spade or 
eighteen inches deep, incorporating the manure effectually there- 
with, as you proceed in digging or trenching. 
Then in the first week of this month, take up your plants, which 
were managed as directed in the preceding months, with a trans- 
planter or hollow trowel, one by one, preserving as much earth as 
possible about their roots, and plant them down to their leaves, in 
rows three feet asunder, and the same distance, plant from plant, in 
the rows, forming a little hollow (bason like) about eight inches 
