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■onion seed and sets, lettuce, radish can be planted. If this can not be 

 done in February, the first chance in March must be utilized. 



Cold frames must be started by the first of March, the hotbeds 

 should all be made and planted by the 15th to 20th, and those that are 

 cleared of the first crop overhauled and planted to a second. Potatoes 

 must be planted for early crop. Rubbish removed from the orchards 

 and berry patches, vineyard, etc., so cultivation can commence early. 

 The hot-ber?s will need a great deal of attention as the weather gets 

 warmer, and watering, airing, thinning and transplanting must be closely 

 looked after. A succession of the different plants and vegetables must 

 be attended to and kept up, tomato, eggplant, peppers, etc., started, 

 celery, salsify and parsnip sown outdoors. The remaining winter 

 vegetables cleaned up and sold as there will be little demand for them 

 during April. 



The latter is one of the busiest months. The strawberries must 

 have the mulch removed, berry and vegetable plants dug and sold, 

 new plantings made, replanting of trees and vines, the continuation 

 preparing ground, seeding, cultivating, transplanting, etc., must be 

 pushed, cabbage and cauliflower transplanted to the open ground, more 

 cold frames added. Hot-beds, as they become empty, overhauled and 

 sown or planted to 2nd and 3rd crop. Sweet potatoes bedded. Vege- 

 tables grown under glass and early vegetable plants are being marketed 

 with increased sales, asparagus and rhubarb will be coming in by the 

 latter part of the month as well as other outdoor grown. Spinach, kale, 

 lettuce, onions, radishes, etc., by the first of May. Spraying the fruit 

 trees and vines with Bordeaux mixture must be done before the buds 

 open, cultivation begun and kept up. Daring May the marketing of 

 early truck continues, adding early cabbage, cauliflower, kohl-rabi, 

 beets, peas and early potatoes by the latter part of month. 



The vegetable plant trade must not be neglected and a succession 

 kept up. Tomatoes and sweet potatoes planted to open ground. 

 Melons, cucumbers, butter beans, string beans, corn, etc., planted with 

 succession, plantings to follow at intervals. Currants and gooseberries 

 will be ready for market before the month is gone. Boxes and crates 

 must be on hand. Summer pruning of trees and vines must be done, 

 also spraying the trees with a wash made of soft soap, lime and car- 

 bolic acid (a second application first of August). June will keep us 

 busy with the strawberries, cherries and raspberries to market, in ad- 

 dition to the vegetables, of which there are early cabbage, potatoes, 

 cauliflower, peas, beans, beets, lettuce, radish, onions, etc. Cultivation 

 must be continued, and no weeds allowed to get a start. A succession 

 of cabbage must be coming on, and the main crop planted. Celery 



