384 CALENDAR APRIL? 



ble. Attend to the dressing of shrubberies, laying of turf- 

 edgings, and to the state of gravel- walks. 



APRIL. 



Kitchen Garden. Sow main crops of asparagus, sea- 

 kale, beet, salsify, scorzonera, skirret, carrots, and onions, on 

 heavy soils ; also peas, beans, turnips, spinach, celery, cab 

 bages, savoys, and German greens, for succession. Sow 

 broccoli and kidney-beans both in the second and in the 

 last week ; cardoons not before the end of the month. 

 Small salads should be sown twice or thrice during the 

 month ; also sweet herbs, if not sown last month. Graft 

 fruit-trees. 



Plant cauliflower, cabbages, artichokes, sea-kale, lettuce, 

 and finish the planting of the main crops of potatoes, and 

 also of strawberries. Propagate all sorts of pot-herbs, 

 and sweet herbs, such as lavender, marjoram, hyssop, balm, 

 and pennyroyal. Attend to the hoeing and thinning of 

 spinach, onions, turnips, and carrots. Earth up cabbages, 

 cauliflower, peas, beans, and early potatoes. Stake up 

 peas ; blanch sea-kale and rhubarb in the open air, by 

 covering with straw or leaves, or with boxes or earthen 

 ware covers. If some roots of scarlet-runners and of In 

 dian cress have been preserved over winter in dry sand, 

 free from frost, they may now be planted out, and will 

 afford an early show of flowers and crop of fruit. 



Fruit Trees. No pruning or planting ought to be left 

 unfinished till this period ; stone-fruits, in particular, are 

 much injured by spring pruning. If vines have been 

 neglected, rubbing off the buds that are not wanted is 

 now safer than pruning. Protect blossoms of the finer 

 sorts of fruit-trees on the walls. 



