320 T # E KITCHEN-GARDEN. [April. 
lettuces about ten or twelve inches distant each way; water them 
immediately, and repeat it occasionally in dry weather, till they have 
taken good root. 
For the method of planting, the kinds most deserving of cultiva- 
tion, and other particulars, see page 188. 
Continue to sow a variety of the best kinds of lettuce, once every 
two weeks, that there may be a regular succession. Dig a spot of 
rich ground for them, in an open situation, sow the seed even, not 
too thick, and rake them in lightly. Scatter a few seeds among other 
general crops, and they will grow large and fine. 
Small Sallading. 
Sow small sallading, generally, about once every week or fort- 
night; the sorts are lettuce, cresses, mustard, rape and radish, &c. 
Dig a bed of light mellow earth for these seeds, and rake the sur- 
face fine. Draw some flat shallow drills; sow the seeds therein, each 
kind separate, and cover them lightly with earth. 
Water them moderately if the weather should be dry, which will 
greatly promote their growth. 
For more particulars respecting small sallading, see pages 126 
and 197. 
Radishes. 
Thin the general crops of radishes where they have arisen too 
thick, leaving the plants about two or three inches asunder, and 
clear them from weeds. 
Radish seed, both of the short-topped, salmon-coloured, and white 
Naples sorts, should be sown at three different times this month; 
by which means a constant supply of young radishes may be ob- 
tained, allowing about twelve days between each time of sowing; 
choosing at this season an open situation for the seed: sow it evenly 
on the surface, cover, or rake it well in, and the plants will come up 
in a few days, and be of proper size for drawing, in three or four 
weeks. 
The crops of early radishes, in general, should be often watered 
in dry weather; this will promote their swelling freely, and will pre- 
vent their growing hot and sticky. 
Sow a thin sprinkling of radish seed, among other low growing 
crops; such will generally be found very good. 
Turnep-rooted radishes, of both the white and red kinds, should 
now be sown, and treated as directed in page 189. Thin such of 
them as were sown last month, to two or three inches apart. You 
may likewise, sow some of the white Spanish radishes, but the ge- 
neral time for sowing that, and the black winter kind, is June, July 
and August. 
Sowing Spinach. 
Continue now to sow seed of the round leaved Spinach, every ten 
or twelve days, agreeably to the directions given in page 189, which 
see. Hoe the spinach sowed in the former months, and thin the 
plants, to three, four, or five inches distance. 
