142 THE FRUIT GARDEN. [FEB. 



SOWING PARSLEY SEED. 



Sow some of the common and curled parsley seeds in drills, on 

 some warm border, to produce an early supply ; the seed will remain 

 a long time in the ground before it comes up, but there is no danger 

 of its perishing. 



MUSHROOMS. 



The same care that was directed last month in page 31, must be 

 continued with due attention to your mushroom beds ; being partic- 

 ular to preserve them effectually from frost and wet, either of which 

 would destroy the spawn, and render your beds unproductive. 



ARTICHOKES. 



If the weather is extremely severe, and you have not attended to 

 it before, lay some dry long litter over the rows of your choice globe 

 artichokes, which will tend greatly to their preservation. 



SOUTHERN STATES. 



In Georgia, South Carolina, and other parts of the more southern 

 States, this will be a very principal month with the inhabitants for 

 making their kitchen gardens ; for the method of doing which I can 

 only refer them to the kitchen garden for March and April, the work 

 recommended to be done in these months being quite applicable with 

 them at this season. 



In the more northerly of the southern States, much work can be 

 done in the kitchen garden this month ; but the next will be their 

 important period, to which I refer them. 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



PRUNING WALL AND ESPALIER TREES. 



Peaches, nectarines, and apricots, should, in the middle States, be 

 pruned about the latter end of this month ; the beginning of next 

 will be a good time in the eastern States. This must be duly at- 

 tended to before the buds are much swelled, for then many of them 

 would be unavoidably rubbed off in performing the work. 



Examine these trees well, and cut away all such parts as are use- 

 less, both in old and young wood, and leave a proper supply of the 

 last year's shoots for next summer's bearing ; all old wood that has 

 advanced a considerable length, and produced no young shoots proper 

 for bearing this year, nor support branches that do, are useless, and 

 should now be cut out to make room for better ; observing that a 



