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seed therein, for an early crop; the best kinds to sow are the solid, 
and red celery, both of which are excellent. 
Break the earth very fine, and either sow the seed on the surface, 
and rake it in lightly; or rake the surface smooth, sow the seed 
thereon, and cover it with light earth, sifted over near a quarter of 
an inch deep; or the ground being formed into a three or four feet 
wide bed, and the surface raked, then with the back of the rake trim 
the earth evenly off the surface about a quarter of an inch deep into 
the alley; sow the seed on the bed, and with a spade cast the earth 
over it evenly, and rake the surface smooth. 
Though this seed may not come up for a length of time, there 
will be no danger of its perishing in the ground, and it will be in a 
state to receive the first advantage of the growing season: if a 
frame and lights, or hand-glasses can be spared to put over it, they 
will greatly forward its growth: when raised in this way, though it 
will not be so early, it will not be so subject either to start to seed, 
or to pipe, as if sown and forced in a hot-bed. 
But those who wisli to have celery as early as possible, should 
sow the seed on a slight hot-bed, and cover it with a frame and 
lights, or with hand-glasses; or in default of these, cover on nights 
and bad weather with mats, placed on hoops stuck arch-ways over 
the beds to support them; being careful, in either method, when the 
plants are come up, to admit the free air every mild day. 
There should not be many of these early sown plants, planted out 
for a continuing supply, only a few to come in before the general 
crop, for they will soon pipe and run up to seed. 
Sowing Radish Seed, 
Towards the end of this month, if the weather is mild and the 
ground open, you may dig a warm border to sow therein some early- 
frame, short-top, and white turncp-rooted radish-seeds, to draw for 
sallads in April and early in May. Dig another piece at the same 
time for salmon-radish, which will succeed the former. 
Let them generally be sown broad-cast on the surface, either in 
a continued space, or in four or five feet wide beds, and rake them 
in with an even hand; or in sowing large crops in one continued 
space, if quite dry light ground, it is eligible, before raking in, to 
tread down the seed lightly, then rake it in regularly. 
You may sow among these crops of radishes, a sprinkling of 
spinach and lettuce-seed; the spinach will come in after the radish, 
and the lettuce after the spinach. 
The radishes sown last month must be carefully protected by co- 
vering the glasses at night, and in very severe weather, with mats, 
&c. and they must have plenty of air occasionally, otherwise they 
will not root well. 
In order to have radishes tolerably early, or to succeed those sown 
in January, let some of the early kinds above mentioned be now 
sowed on a slight hot-bed, as directed in page 22, and treated as 
there advised: or you may sow them on such beds, under cover of 
oiled-paper frames, or of mats; but radishes are not apt to root well 
under covering of mats, especially when necessity requires them to 
