136 How to Make the Garden Pay. 



Order seed catalogues of leading dealers, and study them 

 carefully ; then make your selection of seeds, providing for all 

 possible wants, and send in your order without unnecessary 

 delay. 



Select and engage the required hired help. Now you have 

 choice later you will have to take what others have refused. 



FEBRUARY. 



Attend to frames, and greenhouses, as in January. Venti- 

 late freely in fine weather. 



Test the vitality of seeds on hand, and order a new supply if 

 necessary. 



Inspect all implements, harnesses, wagons. Repair where 

 needed. 



First of month sow cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce in well 

 protected cold frame or hot-bed for earliest planting, if no win- 

 tered plants are on hand. 



Latter part of month sow tomatoes, egg-plant and pepper in 

 a strong hot-bed, or in greenhouse. 



Continue drawing manure. Fork over the compost heaps. 



Last of month, if season is favorable, begin setting wintered 

 plants of cabbage and lettuce in open ground. 



MARCH. 



Attend to frames, greenhouses, etc., as in February. 



Cart and spread manure on the fields to be planted. Plow, 

 harrow. 



Sow seeds of radish, lettuce, onion, spinach, early beets, 

 turnips, carrots, celery, hardy peas, parsley. 



Dig around the rhubarb plants, and apply fine compost, 

 liquid manure, or nitrate of soda. 



Pulverize the asparagus patch, hilling up the rows. Apply 

 nitrate of soda at the rate of 200 to 300 Ibs. per acre. 



Continue setting cold frame plants of cabbage, cauliflower, 

 lettuce. 



Plant onion sets and first early potatoes. 



Prick out tomato seedlings in flats or on greenhouse benches 

 three or four inches apart each way. 



APRIL. 



First of month sow seed of all hardy vegetables radishes 

 beets, carrots, peas, spinach, celery ; the last of the month the 

 first planting of the tender kinds, beans, sweet com, etc., can be 

 made. 



Sow onion seed for sets. 



Thin all the drilled crops planted last month. 



Cultivate freely between rows. 



