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KITCHEN GARDEN. 
to retain their beauty without abundance of 
Bpace. It is the crowding of plants together 
thai makes them lose the foliage from their 
lower branches, and causes them to grow tall, 
straggling, and bare at bottom. All the shelves 
and stands should be brushed dry, dead leaves 
and all kinds of litter removed, and the floors 
regularly swept. If the place under the 
shelves be the common earth, and all the sur- 
plus water from the pots go through and soak 
it, the damp will often be found troublesome; 
mildew will attack many of the delicate plants, 
and there is too much reason to fear they 
will scarcely ever recover their proper health. 
Beyond keeping the house dry, the plants 
clean, and the frost away, there is little to do 
in the green-house. If the pots of cuttings 
of Verbenas, and other bedding-out plants are 
kept in the green-house, they must not have 
much water ; but it will not do to let them get 
dry. All the plants should be cleared of 
their dead leaves, and if there is any dispo- 
sition to get mossy in any of the soil of the 
pots, it should be stirred, and the moss be re- 
moved. 
THE CONSERVATORY. 
Here, as in the stove and green-house, the 
treatment must be the same as that of last 
month. Every flower that. is available in all 
(he departments of the garden must be avail- 
able, and some assistance should now be ob- 
tained from the stove, Avhere plants are forced. 
Rhododendrons, Azaleas, and many other sub- 
jects begun early, will now be coming into 
flower, and handsome evergreens, which all 
Camellias and Rhododendrons are when not 
in flower, must till up the picture. Cleanli- 
ness, neatness, and order, will do much to- 
wards rendering the place sightly, and these 
can only be secured by constant attention. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Cauliflower plants must be examined, 
from time to time, and all dead leaves be picked 
off, all damaged plants be pulled out, and the 
earth pressed to the roots of any that have 
been disturbed, especially if the frost has got 
hold of the ground, and made it spongy and 
rotten. If they are only covered with hoops 
and mats, they should be uncovered in all dry, 
open weather, but covered against frost, ex- 
cessive wet, and snow. Those under hand- 
glasses should have air on the warm side by 
tilting, or, if the weather be mild, the glasses 
may be lifted. Plants in frames should be 
wholly uncovered whenever the weather will 
permit, and they should have but little water. 
Where any plants are merely placed in warm 
situations without other covering, let them at 
least be protected with loose litter. 
Lettuce Plants which are in frames 
should be picked over, and thinned where they 
are too thick, and air should be given daily in 
mild weather by tilting the lights ; and if the 
sun should shine, or the weather be open, 
they may be wholly uncovered an hour or two 
in the middle of the day. A small portion of 
seed may be sown on a warm border, or in a 
frame. The glasses, whatever be the state of 
the weather, should be closed at night, and 
covered with mats or transparent cloth ; the 
latter is always the better, as it admits light, 
which is of the greatest consequence when the 
frosty weather prevents the frames from being 
opened at all. We have known Lettuce plants 
that have been covered with mats and litter, 
and completely closed for many days, with a 
heavy fall of snow over all of it, to be drawn 
and turned yellow, while those covered with 
transparent calico, and snow some inches 
thick for three weeks, were green and un- 
injured. 
Small Salad. — Where this is in request, 
the various kinds may be sown, from time to 
time, to succeed former sowings. In hot-beds 
this can be kept up for all seasons without 
difficulty, because the growth is rapid, and 
you may calculate to a day the progress it 
will make. 
Peas may be sown in sheltered situations 
in quantities likely to meet the demand, and 
it is desirable to put the sticks in directly ; for 
it is a great preservative against birds, and 
does a good deal towards breaking off high 
winds and protecting against hard frosts. 
Any Peas sown before, and now through the 
ground, should be earthed up on the north- 
east side, and stuck without delay. 
Radish Seed may be sown on a warm 
border, to be covered with litter of nights, and 
in hard weather some may be sown in a frame 
or hot-bed, with a few Onions and Lettuce 
mixed ; the Radishes being drawn, leaves 
the others more room, and, where much 
Salad is wanted, they are always handy and 
useful. 
Carrots. — Sow a small quantity in a warm 
situation for the chance of mild weather. 
They may afford a dressing or two of young 
spring Carrots early, and if they fail it will be 
of little consequence. 
Beans may be sown in small quantities, for 
those who value them. It is always better to 
sow often, and few at a time, than to make any 
preparation for single heavy crops. Earth up 
those which are growing. 
Endive requires tying up or covering over 
to bleach the hearts for use, and as they are 
protected as well as bleached by covering, it is 
a good plan to put flower-pots over them. 
Artichokes may be earthed up to protect 
the roots from frost, or heaps of tan or ashes 
may be laid over them ; they require litter of 
some kind, as they are somewhat tender. 
