208 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. [March 
about eighteen inches asunder, covering them half an inch deep, 
when they come up thin them, leaving the best plants six inches dis- 
tant from one another: about the beginning of July your first crop if 
sown in March, will be fit for blanching, at which time you are to 
earth it up as you do celery, and in three weeks after, it will be in a 
good condition for use. To have a regular succession of this plant 
some seed must be sown every three weeks during the season, and 
your late crops may be preserved in winter as you do celery. 
Capsicums or Red-peppers, Tomatoes, and Egg-Plants. 
The different varieties of the Capsicums, Tomatoes, and Egg- 
plants, being in much estimation for culinary purposes; you should 
sow some of each kind now in pots, and forward them in your hot- 
beds, so as to have strong plants ready for planting out into the open 
ground as early in May, as the night frosts shall have totally disap- 
peared. Each and every of these kinds bear transplanting extreme- 
ly well, and from this sowing you may expect early and abundant 
crops. For further particulars, see April, May, &c. 
Planting out Cabbages, Beets, Turneps, Sfc. for Seeds. 
As early in this month as the weather gets open, and tolerably 
mild, plant out such cabbages, beets, carrots, turneps, parsneps, 8cc. 
as you have preserved during the winter to raise seed from; the cab- 
bages are to be planted in rows, four feet asunder, one foot distant 
from each other in the rows, and up to their heads in the earth; the 
others may be planted in four feet wide beds, at the distance of ten 
or twelve inches root from root, or in rows, at pleasure; observing to 
tie up the shoots, to stakes placed for that purpose, as they advance 
for seeding, to prevent their being broken down by winds, heavy 
rains, See. 
Planting Potatoes. 
Potatoes may now be planted for an early crop, as soon as the 
weather opens, and that the frost is entirely out of the ground; let 
the soil in which you plant them be moderately light, a little en- 
riched with dung, and advantageously situated. 
Be careful to procure the earliest kinds, from which select a 
quantity of the best formed and soundest roots, and of a tolerable 
size; these are to be cut into sets, a week before planting, in order 
that the wounds should have time to form a dry crust, for if planted 
at this season immediately after being cut, they would imbibe too 
much moisture, many of them rot, and all would be greatly weak- 
ened thereby: cut each root into two, three, pr more pieces accord- 
ing to their size; minding particularly that each cut be furnished 
with one or two good eyes or buds which is sufficient. They are 
then to be planted in rows two feet and a half asunder, the sets to be 
nine inches distant in the row, and three or four inches deep Should 
severe frost ensue protect them by laying some long litter, or wispy- 
dung over the drills. 
