100 FAMILY RECEIPTS. 



Your seed being prepared as above, make ready a 

 piece of good rich ground. Early in the spring sow 

 your seed pretty thick, to allow for imperfect seeds, on 

 beds about four feet wide, with an alley between each 

 row: cover the seed three quarters of an inch. 



A CALENDAR, 



Pointing out the most important duties of the gardener in 



each month of the year ^ and the vegetables to be attended to 



during the periods mentioned. 



The object of this calendar is merely to give brief 

 intimations of work to be performed in a garden, to- 

 gether with some approximation to the time of year in 

 which it should be accomplished. 



No precise time can be fixed which will suit the cli- 

 mate in all the states. These directions are intended 

 for the middle States, and particularly about the latitude 

 40^ N. Allowance can be made for elevation of site, 

 as well as, for situation North or South of that degree, 

 but it is not po=.-":bic . perhaps, to state what that allow- 

 ance should be with any degree of precision. 



JANUARY. 



But little can be done this month, except getting 

 poles for pease and beans. Beds for forcing cucumbers, 

 melons, &c. may be prepared. 



FEBRUARY. 



Take out your manure and leave it in heaps — bum 

 haum — clean seed — get and repair tools — prepare ma- 

 terials for hot beds — clear your trees of moss and mice, 

 and give them a coat of lime ; sow asparagus — sow for 

 transplanting, on hot beds, radishes, carrots, salads, 

 pease and beans, protect vegetating plants by old litter, 

 mats, barks, &c. 



MARCH. 



Sow lettuce in open ground and in vacant places 

 among the rows of other plants, where it can be pulled 



