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first week. Protect stage auriculas and hyacinths from 

 extremes of every description of ■ weather; and tulips 

 from hoarfrosts and heavy rains. Plant out tender de- 

 ciduous trees and shrubs raised in pots. Eemove part 

 of the coverings of all tender shrubs and plants in the 

 first week, and the remainder at the end of the month. 

 Form and repair lawns and grass- walks by laying turf 

 and sowing perennial grass-seeds. 



MAY. 



Kitclmi Grcirden. — Sow small salads every week ; ra- 

 dishes and lettuces thrice during the month ; spinach 

 once a fortnight ; carrots and onions for late drawing ; 

 kidney-beans, in the first week and last fortnight ; peas 

 and beans, cabbages, Brussels sprouts, borecole, broc- 

 coli, savoys, and German greens for late crops. The 

 last sowing of cauliflower for the season should be about 

 the 20th. Cardoons may be sown from the middle to 

 the end of the month. Sow pumpkins and cucumbers 

 on a warm border in the last w^ek. Continue the va- 

 rious operations of hoeing and earthing-up the different 

 crops. ^ 



Fruit-Trees. — Disbud peaches, nectarines, and other 

 early trees against the walls ; also attend to the thin- 

 ning of fruit. Give occasional washings with the engine 

 to keep down insects. A little brown or Scotch snuiF 

 dusted over the trees after watering will efi'ectually de- 

 stroy green-fly. pick caterpillars from gooseberries 

 and wall-trees, on their first appearance. Mulch, if 

 not done before, all new'ly-planted fruit-trees, watering 

 abundantly in dry weather. Remove from raspberries 

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