The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
_May._ The principal crops sowed and planted in the spring will now
require weeding, hoeing, and thinning, and some transplanting. The
melon beds require an equal degree of heat; and the glasses must be
covered every night through the month with mats; but in the middle of
the day they must be raised to the breadth of two or three fingers.
Cucumbers in frames must receive a moderate supply of water, and be
planted out under hand-glasses.
_June._ Particular attention is now required in weeding, hoeing,
thinning, and watering the principal crops, and pricking out and
transplanting for autumn and winter. Sow savoys, brocoli, borecole,
cabbages, turnips, carrots, spinage, coleworts, kidney beans,
lettuce, endive, celery, cucumbers, radishes, peas, beans, and small
salading. Plant cabbages, colewort, savoys, brocoli, borecole, leeks,
beans, lettuce, endive, celery, cucumbers, radishes, peas, and beans.
Melon plants must be shaded in the heat of the day, and receive a
large portion of fresh air. Transplant endive for blanching, and
prick out young brocoli plants, which were sown in April or May.
_July._ Prepare ground for the reception of succession crops, and
some main crops for autumn and winter, and sow turnips, &c. as at
the beginning of the year. The common radishes sown now will be fit
to draw the beginning of September; and the cauliflowers sown in
May must be planted out in spots where they are to remain. The beds
of carrots sown now will be fit to draw early in April. Spinage for
winter may now be sown, and onions taken up if the leaves wither.
_August._ Asparagus beds planted in March must now be cleared; celery
transplanted and earthed, and the heads or suckers taken from the
March artichokes. The early cabbage seed must not be sown later than
the 12th of this month; but lettuce seed may be put in as late as
the 24th. The cauliflower seed will not do without covering, and the
spinage sown last month will require hoeing.
_September._ Sow spinage, lettuce, onions, radishes, cabbages,
colewort, chervil, corn-salad, borage, coriander, turnips, and
successions of small salading. Plant savoys, cabbages, coleworts,
brocoli, borecole, lettuces, leeks, celery, endive, and perennial,
aromatic, and pot-herbs. Make mushroom beds, and cut down the haulm
of asparagus, clean the beds and dung them if necessary. Hoe your
turnips, and weed onions. The cauliflowers of last month must be
weeded out, and cabbage-plants pricked. Of the lettuces sown last
month some may be put into warm borders for spring use, and others
planted under frames for pulling in December and January. The
different seeds must be gathered as they ripen.
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