How to manage a Garden 



potatoes are kept exposed and yet free from frost. Start 

 vines to fruit in July and August. Top-dress vine border 

 and water it well. Sow mustard and cress weekly. Wash 

 pots, pans, boxes, and baskets. Prune gooseberries and 

 currants. Keep flowering-house fairly dry. Take cuttings 

 of summer flowering plants. Keep plenty of water near 

 hot pipes. Sponge all inside plants with soapy water if 

 troubled with mealy bug and scale. Tie up raspberry 

 canes and loganberries. Pot amaryllis. Sow Brussels 

 sprouts in boxes and carrots in frames. Put pot roses 

 inside. Start bulbs of caladiums and the yellow calla. 

 Sow early celery, lettuce, and parsley. Plant shallots. 

 Pot up plants that are rootbound or give them liquid 

 manure. Prepare a cold frame with ash bottom for 

 chrysanthemums. Put in cuttings of geraniums. 



March. 



Give more air to greenhouses, pits, and frames. Pot up 

 stove plants in good open compost. Pot up also chrysan- 

 themums and tomatoes as they need it. Sow seed of 

 peas, spinach, lettuce, savoys, turnips, radishes, celery, 

 celeriac, &c. Plant asparagus in rows four feet apart 

 and two-and-a-half feet between plants. Graft trees. 

 Get soil broken down ready for sowing and planting. 

 Make a trench ready for sweet peas and also for runner 

 beans. Syringe peach trees and vines twice daily. Damp 

 floors of glass houses. Make new plantations of seakale 

 and rhubarb. Plant potatoes and artichokes (Jerusalem 

 and Chinese). Pull or dig up old cabbage stumps, &c. 

 Put in cuttings of coleus, winter carnations, begonias, &c. 

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