578 REMARKS ON A TWO-LIGHT FRAME. 
uses to which such a frame could be put throughout the year we 
must speak of each month separately, and shall therefore commence 
first with— 
January —Those who have a taste for flowers will now have their 
frame filled with greenhouse plants. Camellias, p. 362, or Auriculas, 
p. 56, which cannot he disposed of otherwise before next month. 
February —The Camellias or other greenhouse plants may now 
be taken out of the frame, and placed in such rooms as are conve¬ 
nient to flower them. See pages 362 and 498. Let the Auriculas, 
&c. be placed in a temporary shelter made with a few hoards, so that 
they can be allowed plenty of air, or be fully exposed in fine days, 
and well covered down at night with mats or litter to preserve them 
from frost. Then let a bed be made for the frame of prepared horse- 
dung, about three feet thick in front, and four feet at the back, which 
will leave a good slope towards the south; set on the frame, 
and after the bed has settled a day or two, let one of the lights have 
about a foot thick of light sandy soil put in it; if this cannot be 
easily procured, mix a large portion of sand with common garden 
mould, in this plant some whole potatoes of the early kidney sort, 
which are always best for the first crops, at about the distance of 
eight inches in the rows, and one foot from row to row; making the 
rows from the back to the front of the bed, which will admit the sun 
to the roots when the tops become large; on the top of these potatoes 
scatter a crop of scarlet radishes, which will be all drawn before the 
potatoe tops attain any size. Let the other light have some sandy 
soil or old tan put in it, then plunge a quantity of three years old 
rhubarb roots as closely as they can be placed to each other, and 
turn a large pot over each root, to exclude it from the air; if it be 
the early scarlet variety, the stalks will be ready for use in eight 
days; three or four large pans or feeders may also be filled with 
light soil, and sown with light salading : as soon as the seeds begin 
to show themselves above the soil, sow three or four others to suc¬ 
ceed them. When the radishes appear, give as much air as possi¬ 
ble without injuring them by either cutting winds or heavy rains. 
Also prepare a quantity of dung for a cucumber bed, let it be well 
shaken and thrown in a heap, and watered if necessary, turning it 
two or three times until it becomes sweetened. Towards the end of 
the month, when the rhubarb is all gathered, fill the light with the 
same sort of soil as the other, and plant another crop of kidney pota¬ 
toes, with a few radishes sown over them as recommended for the 
last, leaving, however, a space at the front of the frame sufficiently 
broad to set a row of pans or feeders; sow' in one or two of them 
