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plants, make hotbeds, sow and transplant lettuce. 

 Attend to mushroom beds and sow mustard. For onions 

 put out as sets, those known as ^^Philadelphia Buttons" 

 keep the best. Of parsnips, Bloomsdale is the best. 

 Peas, Extra Early, Advancer, Premium Gem. Plant 

 early potatoes ; the Early Ohio is a prolific early. Sow 

 Market Gardeners' and Summer White radish; the 

 Strap-leaved Long Scarlet is an improvement on the 

 old Long Scarlet, and is recommended. Sow rhubarb 

 or plant roots. Sow seed of garden sage and tomatoes 

 in hot -bed ; Early Jersey ripens first. Sow turnips, but 

 generally so far north as Philadelphia these directions 

 will apply better to April than to March. 



Southern. — Southward of Washington. Continue 

 to plant peas and beans; Lanclreth's Scarlet is a fine 

 golden wax. Transplant cabbage plants from winter 

 beds, especially Landreth's Earliest, also Jersey "Wake 

 field. Remember to have fine head cabbage and lettuce ; 

 deep culture and highly manured soil is required. Sow 

 Extra Early Red onion and Extra Early Yellow. Leeks 

 may be sown and a few turnips. Plant potatoes. Sow 

 carrots and parsnips, if enough were not sown last 

 month. Mustard and Cutting lettuce, for small salad, 

 should be sown at least once a fortnight. Sow parsley 

 and tomatoes in warm situation ; those from the hotbed 

 may be set out. Sow peppers at the close of this month. 

 Watermelons — Boss and Long Light Icing — may be 

 planted, also Extra Early and Acme cantaloupe, and 

 Reedland Giant muskmelon. Cucumbers, First and 

 Choice; Okra, Landreth's Long Green Pod; also squash 

 and pumpkins. Beets and other root crops sown last 

 month will be advancing ; they should be thinned and 

 cultivated. Sow celery — Paris Golden, and Si-inach. 

 Dress asparagus beds if not already done, and sat out 

 strawberry beds. French artichokes, if slipped and 

 dressed last month, should have attention. 



