... boxes, and place where there is a little warmth. Tho seeds will be better without covering. Water with warm water. These small salad plants are often raised in a very primitive way they aN seme. times grown on flannel wrapped round bottles filled with warm ...

... selection would be neces- sary. Answers to Correspondents. H.B, Worcester.-—Forcing for salads.- Dandelions, chicory, and some other plants which are used for salads, will force very freely when placed in boxes, but they must be kept in the dark to blanch ...

... consuming the plant green or dried; (3) by ploughing it in as manure for other crops. Salads. Lettuce is probably the mosi. common as well as most popular and wholesome of salad plants. The earliest lettuces are usually obtained by sow- ing seed of a hardy kind ...

... plants, the second crop of grnbwill be effectually prevented. Summer Radishes. Apart from mustard and cress there is no kind of salad that becon?es so quickly fit for use as radishes. Radishes must be grown jnickly or they lose all flavour snd become woolly ...

... long litter before the frost sets in, and they may be drawn fresh and sweet all the winter. Sow salad plants such as lettuces, radishes, cress, corn-salad, etc., on moist, cool land. Scarlet runners and French beans may still be planted. Place sticks ...

... be coarse and less delicate in flavour. Plant out plenty of endive and lettuce. Lamb's lettuce or corn salad will make a, useful addition to the salad bowl during the autnmn and winter. Do not gather any more rhubarb now for wine- making or any other purpose ...

... the mainstay of the salad bowl in winter. Tomatoes outside after the rains are growing freely, necessitating a good deal of pinching. It will soon be time to stop the leaders, as fruit set after August will not ripen. Sow corn salad and chervil. Sow red ...

... Charles Dickens, and to the members who were wont to frequent it, he says You got the best chop and steak and cold meat and salad in the world, and the parrot who called, Order order and Chair chair and all the cries of the House, and the immortal Jane ...

... land every- where may be cultivated, and either planted or sown with Spinach, Onions, late Turnips, or salad plants, such as lettuce endive, corn, salad, &c., cut herbs for drying. Parsley also may be gathered and dried now for winter flavouring this will ...

... are grown quickly on a rich, mellow ground are attractive in appearance, delicate in flavour, and as easily digested as any salad in common use. It should be thoroughly understood by those intending-' to grow radishes that earliness is of the very first ...

... the beef, which should be put into a shallow dish. Mix a httle salt and pepper with two tableapoonfuls of vingar and one of salad oil, and poar these over the meat; ornament the dish round the edge with small tomatoes or the hearts of lettuces. Though it ...

... The land should be in good condition now for planting strawberries. Vegetable Garden,-The prosptect. of winter greens and salads are very promising, and all kinds of vegetables are abundant and geod. Early-planted rows of celery are now ready'for earthing ...