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V.NES, if you wish for young plants, may be layered ; that is, any healthy 

 branch which can be spared, cut a slit in it between two eyes three inches long, 

 bend the part under ground, and with a strong hooked stick peg it fast, and 

 then drive a stick in to fasten the upper part of it ; it will strike root by 

 October. 



Vermin. — Examine all fruit trees and bushes, and clear them of vermin. 

 Seakale. — Sow the seeds in a small bed, and cover an inch in depth. 

 Refresh with water when it gets too dry. 



Rhubarb.— If you raise this from seed, now is the time to bow it in good 

 rich 6oil. 



Radishes. — Continue to bow. 



Potatoes. — Plant more potatoes for a fuller crop than the last : middling 

 potatoes whole are far better for the cottage than cut seta of larger ones. It is 

 a fallacy to conclude that the largest potatoes have the largest eyes ; there is no 

 fallacy "in preferring a whole potato to a cut set ; if they do not go quite so far 

 as the usual distance of sets, you have only to plant them wider apart and get a 

 heavier crop to each : we have seen a better crop of potatoes from chats thrown 

 bv for pigs, than from many of the most highly cultivated grounds when cut 

 sets were used. Plant as directed last month. If you are obliged to use large 

 potatoes, cut each piecp with one or two good eyes to it. Cut sets may be 

 planted nine inches apart ; whole potatoes, though smaller, should have a foot 

 distance between each other. 



Savoys, Bbocoli, and Scotch Kale or Geeens, should be sown this month, 

 about the middle, if the weather suit. Make up a bed and sow a good patch 

 of each, according to your wants. Let the bed be well dug and dressed for 

 them. 



Heebs of all descriptions should be slipped or parted, and planted to make 

 fresh beds where necessary. 



Peas should still be sown once a month, or even twice, according to the 

 consumption. 



Onions.— Sow the main crop. Let the ground ba well dunged and dug, and 

 sow as before. 



Lettuce. — Sow more lettuce. Indeed these as well as peas should be sown 

 in smaller quantities and continued every month, so long as the supply is 

 required. 



Beans, also, if required, should be sown again, as soon as the last sowing 

 lias got the second pair of leaves open. Sow them in rows to bloom where they 

 come up. Let the rows be two feet apart. Earth up those which are growing 

 fast. 



Celery. — Sow a piece of the size of a large handglass or of two glasses for the 

 main crop, and use the glass to protect them. 



S.mali, Salad may be sowd as required. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



CiNi.imtiAS.— B.D., Salisbury.— Should you desire to grow on your Cinerarias 



:iSon treat them in the following manner. After flowering, the old 



stems should be cut away, and the stools shifted back into small pots, using a 



Kimly soil and keeping the plants in a very cool shaded place through the 



mer, preserving through the winter in the same manner as you would 



ings, and repotting them in larger pots about the middle of February, using 



a soil composed of loam, leaf-mould, and well-rotted manure. The offsets may be 



removed. 



Iuiii.ia I mi-i kialih. — Ji.JJ., Salkluri/.- Dahlia Imperialis requires a good 

 bamy soil, and while in full growth mult have abundance of moisture If 

 properly treated it blooms well out of doors and should equally succeed in a cool 



April. 



