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FORWARDING BROCCOLI AND CAULIFLOWER. 
earthed over with light rich compost, six inches deep, and 
the Beans planted therein, and covered one inch. 
The second hot-bed should be earthed over to the depth 
of eight or nine inches, and the Beans transplanted as soon 
as they are two or three inches high, in cross rows twelve 
or fifteen inches apart, by three or four inches in the rows, 
or in clumps a foot apart. When the season is so far advanced 
that one bed, with the help of linings, will bring the plants 
well into fruit, the seed may be planted at once to remain 
for podding ; or if the gardener should choose to mature his 
crop in the open ground, he may raise his plants in boxes or 
pots in the month of April, and plant them out in a warm 
border early in May. 
Beans raised in liot-beds will require considerable atten- 
tion. Cover the glasses every night with mats and boards ; 
admit fresh air every mild day, give occasional gentle water- 
ings, and earth them up carefully as they progress in growth, 
to strengthen them. 
FORWARDING BROCCOLI AND CAULIFLOWER. 
In treating of the method of cultivating this family of 
plants, in the articles under each head, I recommended an 
artificial climate to be provided for them, so as to induce 
them to arrive at full perfection in the winter and early part 
of the spring. Gardeners who have provided frames for the 
purpose of making hot-beds, in the spring, may make use 
of them through the winter, in protecting Broccoli and Cau- 
liflower; and as tne frames will not be wanted until the se- 
verity of the winter is past, such plants as are left at that 
season may be protected by a covering of boards, straw, or 
litter, as occasion may require. 
If Cauliflower be required early in the summer, the plants 
raised in the preceding autumn should be transplanted from 
the beds into tho open ground, in ihe month of March, and 
