==Beans, Broad==, may be sown in frames, and towards the end of the month in open quarters.  For early crops select the Longpod varieties.  Sow on ground deeply dug and well manured.

==Cabbage== may be planted out at any time when weather permits, provided you possess, or can obtain, the plants; and it is of the utmost importance to secure them from a reliable source, or varieties may be planted which will in a few weeks send up flower-stems instead of forming tender hearts.  At every season of the year vacant plots should be kept going with a few breadths of Cabbage.  With our variable climate they may be acceptable, even in the height of summer, if there has been a hard run upon other vegetables, or some important crop has failed outright.

==Cauliflower== may be sown on a gentle hot-bed, or in a pan in the greenhouse, or even in a frame, to make a start for planting out in March or April.

==Cress==, to be enjoyed, must be produced from a constant succession of small but frequent sowings.  All the sorts are good, but different in flavour, and they should be used only while young and tender.  Sow at intervals of a few days in pans, as in the case of Mustard, until it is possible to cultivate in the open air, and then give a shady position during summer on a mellow and rather moist soil.

==Cucumbers== are never ready too soon to meet the demand in early spring.  They are grown in houses more or less adapted to their requirements, and also in frames over hot-beds.  At this time of year, however, frames are somewhat troublesome to manage, and in trying weather they are a little hazardous, although later in the season there is no difficulty whatever with them.  For the present, therefore, we shall confine our remarks to house culture.  Almost any greenhouse may be made to answer, but the work can be carried on most successfully and with the greatest economy in houses which are expressly constructed for Cucumbers.  For winter work a lean-to, facing south, possesses special advantages.  But for general utility, if we had to erect a building on a well-drained soil, it should be dwarf, sunk three feet in the ground, with brick walls up to the eaves, and lighted only from the roof.  Such a structure is less influenced by atmospheric changes than a building wholly above ground.  The size, of course, is optional; and quite a small house will supply an ordinary family with Cucumbers.  But a small house is not economical either in fuel or in labour.  A building thirty feet long by twelve feet wide, six feet high at the sides, and eight and a half feet high at the ridge, will not only grow Cucumbers and Melons, but will also be of immense service for many other plants.  A division across the middle by a wall rising four feet, surmounted with a glass screen fitted to the roof, and finished with a door partially of glass, will greatly augment its usefulness.  There should be an alley down the centre four or five feet wide,