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cut with an edging iron, if omitted in last month; but this should 

 be particularly done to those edgings next to gravel walks always 

 before the gravel is turned or newly laid on, and afterwards occa- 

 sionally. 



STICKING AND TRIMMING FLOWER PLANTS. 



Examine all the beds and borders, and place convenient sticks to 

 such advancing plants as require support; tying them neatly thereto, 

 which should be repeated occasionally as they progress in growth. 

 Let them be made or cut in proportion to the usual height of each 

 respective kind, for it is awkward to see a tall stick set for the support 

 of a plant of humble growth. 



WEEDS. 



"Weeds of every kind, both from roots and seeds, will now make 

 rapid progress; particular care must be taken to keep the beds and 

 borders free from them, as on this, in a great measure, depends much 

 of your success and the beauty of your improvements. 



THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



GIVING AIR TO THE PLANTS. 



Many of the green-house plants will now begin to shoot freely, 

 therefore it will be necessary to give as much air as possible, consist- 

 ent with their safety. Open the windows every morning when the 

 weather is mild and calm, and let them continue so till the cold of 

 the afternoon begins to increase, provided that the air continues mode- 

 rately warm all the time. Too much confinement at this season, espe- 

 cially towards the end of the month, when the heat of the weather 

 increases, would do infinite injury to the plants in general, but espe- 

 cially to the early shooting kinds ; for if drawn up weakly in the 

 house, they would not be in so good a condition to bear a removal 

 into the open air in the early part of next month, as if their vegeta- 

 tion had been retarded by the admission of a due and salutary circu- 

 lation of air in the house at all favorable opportunities. 



WATERING. 



The plants will now require frequent waterings, giving only a little 

 at a time; but especially the oranges, lemons, myrtles, oleanders, 

 African heaths, jasmins, coronillas, justicias, arbutus, laurustinus, 

 and most of the woody kinds; and also the herbaceous green-house 

 exotics will require to be occasionally refreshed with moderate 

 waterings. 



Let all of the plants, in general, be often looked over, to see where 



