CALENDAR — APRIL. 403 



onions, on heavy soils ; also peas, beans, turnips, spi- 

 nach, celery, cabbages, savoys, and German greens, for 

 succession. Sow broccoli and kidney-beans both in 

 the second and in the last week ; cardoons not before 

 the end of the. month. Small salads should be sown 

 twice or thrice during the month ; also sweet herbs, if 

 not sown last month. 



Plant cauliflower, cabbages, artichokes, sea-kale, 

 lettuce ; and finish the planting of the main crops of 

 potatoes, and also of strawberries. Propagate all sorts 

 of pot-herbs, and sweet herbs, such as lavender, mar- 

 joram, hyssop, balm, and pennyroyal. Attend to the 

 hoeing and thinning of spinach, oni:ons, turnips, and 

 carrots. Earth up cabbages, -cauliflower, peas, beans, 

 and early potatoes. Stake up peas; blanch sea-kale 

 and rhubarb in the open air, by covering with straw 

 or leaves, or with boxes or earthenware covers. If 

 some roots of scarlet-runners and of Indian cress have 

 been preserved over winter in dry sand, free from frost, 

 they may now be planted out, and will afi'ord an early 

 show of flowers and crop of fruit. 



Fruit Trees. — No pruning or planting ought to be 

 left unfinished till this period; stone-fruits, in particu- 

 lar, are much injured by spring pruning. If vines 

 have been neglected, rubbing off" the buds that are not 

 wanted is now safer than pruning. Protect blossoms 

 of the finer sorts of fruit-trees on the walls. 



Forcing. — Continue the ^Preparation of succession 

 beds and pits for cucumbers and melons, xittend par- 

 ticularly to the cultivation of those in operation. Sow 

 gourds and basil. , Pot love-apples and capsicums. At- 

 tend' to the routine culture of the pinei-y, giving water 

 and air when necessary ; keeping up the bottom-heat 



