The Garden Under Glass

306 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS I do not advise amateurs generally to start these before February, unless they wish to get them ripe in good season. The advantage of starting early is that there is opportunity for getting forward many things for the greenhouse and garden. Bring pot strawberries into a warm house. Clean, prune, dress with insecticide and tie, peaches, vines, figs and nectarines. Insert vine eyes in pots in a propagator. Sow tomatoes and prick them off when they break into rough leaf. Vegetables.—Sow dwarf beans in small pots or in a box. If sown in a box pot them up early, else the check will be too great. Sow cucumbers and melons singly in 2-inch pots (enveloping each seed in sand) and put into a brisk propagator. Remove from the propagator as soon as they are above the soil. Sow peas and broad beans in boxes and put in a heated house or frame. Sow also onions, leeks, cauliflowers, lettuces, summer cabbages, and towards the end of the month, brussels sprouts and celery. Plant potatoes in pots or in a warm frame. Lettuces may be planted between the potatoes and radishes sown there. Radishes also may be sown between Shorthom carrots on a hotbed. Cauliflowers, lettuces, etc., should be pricked off fairly early. I like to set them fairly close together in a box, say about one hundred and twenty plants in a box 24 inches by 15 inches. By the time they threaten to become crowded they may be further transplanter! in a cold frame. Much room inside is saved by this method. Peas and beans should be removed to cooler quarters as soon as they get above ground. Onions and leeks may be left in heat for some time. A sowing of parsley in a box will make certain of a bed when planted out in the spring. Sow mustard and cress each week to ensure a successional supply. Get in rhubarb, seakale and asparagus for forcing in a frame or beneath the