KITCHEN GARDEN. 
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top ; when the planting time has come, you 
make trenches large enough to hold the boxes, 
and having taken off the bottom, place them 
in the trenches, and by tapping the edges, the 
sides come off easily, leaving the cake of earth 
in the trench, which requires only to be 
filled up properly with soil and the whole 
watered in. 
Beans. — A crop for one or two gatherings 
at the most may be planted now, if they are 
required early, but few families care much 
about them; a very few, therefore, will suffice. 
But many prefer sowing a patch in some 
sheltered place which enables them to protect 
them from frost better than they can be pro- 
tected in rows, and then planting them out at a 
good season ; for, although it may seem strange, 
vegetation checked by removal is not so 
liable to be killed by frost as that which is 
growing rapidly, and has not been checked at 
all ; hence Peas and Beans in warm borders 
frequently suffer by a sharp frost more than 
any that are standing in colder situations, the 
former being in full growth, while the latter are 
stunted. All Peas and Beans should be sown 
or planted in rows running so that one side 
is south-west and the other side north-east, 
earthing up on the north-east side, and form- 
ing a little bank the whole length to shield the 
crop from the north-east winds. 
Sea Kale. — Cover up some with inverted 
flower pots, or proper Sea Kale pots, and sur- 
round them with hot stable dung to force this 
excellent vegetable early into eatable con- 
dition, and all that which is not to be forced 
should be earthed up full six inches, to be cut 
the instant the buds come through the top. 
That which is earthed up may also be forced 
by means of stable dung, for it woi*ks through 
the sojl almost as fast as it comes up inside 
the pot. The proper way of earthing is to make 
the heap or bank of mould six inches clear of 
each side the plant, which, allowing six inches 
for the plant, makes it eighteen inches through 
at the bottom, and it need only be narrowed 
to a foot across at top. The alley between the 
rows should be two feet wide, to give room to 
walk up and down for the purposes of operating 
when earthing up, or digging the earth away 
to cut them when they are ready. The instant 
the shoots disturb the surface by the effort to 
protrude is the time for cutting it. 
Endive should be protected from severe 
frosts, and as soon as they are large enough, 
a quantity should be tied up, like the common 
lettuce, or as we have observed before, covered 
with tiles, or inverted flower-pots, with the 
holes stopped up to prevent light from enter- 
ing; as Endive, like other subjects, will not 
blanch in the light, it is only by excluding it 
that it can be got in perfection. Some may 
be taken up and planted in boxes of mould to 
be kept in an outhouse, where it will be good 
some weeks. 
Potatoes ought to be all up ; but, if there 
be any out at this time, the earliest opportu- 
nity of housing them ought to be seized ; in 
fact, last month's instructions, if not already 
followed, should be attended to without the 
loss of a single day. 
Celery must be attended to in the usual 
manner, by earthing up carefully on dry days. 
Salads of all kinds, such as Radishes, 
Lettuces of all sorts, Mustard, Cress, &c, 
should be sown under glass or in warm bor- 
ders, where they may be protected by litter. 
Small Salad, if required, may be sown in pots, 
and be grown anywhere — in frames, green- 
house, or even the dwelling-house. 
Carrots. — Sow a few in a warm shel- 
tered situation, as there may be some saved 
for the spring, and they are no great loss if 
they fail. Dig up and store away any that may 
be left out in the ground. 
Parsnips may remain in the ground so that 
you take up enough for present use, as, in the 
event of a hard frost, it would be extremely 
difficult to get them out of the ground without 
damaging them. 
Beetroot should be stored in dry sand, 
though, if there be any quantity, it would be 
troublesome ; they will keep well if pitted 
like potatoes. 
Spinach must be kept clear of weeds, and 
the outside leaves only must be taken for use. 
Cauliflowers under glass, whether plants 
to be wintered in frames and lights, or large 
plants for early use under hand-glasses, must 
have as much air as possible in mild weather, 
and not be allowed to have rain. In cold 
winds and hard weather, the hand-glasses 
must be kept down close on the ground, and 
frames and lights closed. Those pricked out 
in warm borders with no glass to cover them, 
must have good litter over them in doubtful 
or frosty weather, or hoops and mats, or other 
covering. 
Asparagus. — To force, refer to the opera- 
tions for last month, and also to manage the 
beds; indeed, these ought to be done with, 
except the succession beds for forcing ; new 
beds may be made this month. 
Cabbages. — Plant out in vacant spaces for 
coleworts or cabbaging, or plant thick enough 
to allow of drawing out two-thirds to eat as 
coleworts, and leave the others proper dis- 
tances for cabbaging in spring. Dig or trench, 
as the case may be, after properly dressing 
the ground, and leave it rough dug, or in 
ridges, that the frost may ameliorate the soil. 
Drain the ground, if there be any appearance 
of swampy or wet springs, or if the water lies 
too near the top. 
Onions should be cleared of weeds as soon 
