A Garden Calendar 



Dig over herbaceous border. Put dahlia root in warm 

 house to obtain cuttings. Pot up eucharis. Disbud peach 

 trees inside. Plant cauliflowers sown early. 



April. 



Plant potatoes. Cover peach trees flowering. Shift 

 chrysanthemums into six-inch pots. Divide and pot up 

 old stools of chrysanthemums. Put spireas and other 

 forcing stuff outside. Keep vinery drier during flowering. 

 Give asparagus a dressing of salt. Sow onions, also plant 

 out from boxes. Pot up calanthes. Sow seed of savoys, 

 broccoli, curly greens, also marrows, stocks, and asters. 

 Prick out celery in frame. Prepare trenches for celery if 

 land is vacant. Make up mushroom bed. Prick off 

 seedling plants of inside stuff and sow more seed. Pot 

 on primulas, cyclamen, and all rooted cuttings, also be- 

 gonias, gloxinias, gesneras, &c. Thin fruit of pot straw- 

 berries. Do not syringe them but water with liquid 

 manure. Plant cucumbers in house. Shade all seedlings 

 and tender plants. Allow crotons and foliage plants 

 plenty of light. Keep hoe going in garden. Clean her- 

 baceous borders. Prune roses. Clip ivy on walls. Trim 

 grass edgings. 



May. 



Sow seed of beet, also of cinerarias, calceolarias, and 

 primulas. Take cuttings of euphorbias and poinsettias. Pot 

 up tuberoses and plunge in heat. Thin grapes. Water 

 vines and give some artificial manure. Do not syringe 



vines again. Plant runner beans. Sow beet. Mow lawns. 

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