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can be cut the following spring. But I don't 

 think the subsequent season's crop as good as 

 when seed is used. 



If the weather is favorable, peas, carrots, 

 beets, turnips and onions can be sown. 



Sow tomatoes or peppers in hotbed or boxes 

 in the house, and a few cucumber and melon 

 seeds on sods to be kept either in the hot- 

 bed or in the house. Ventilate hotbeds, and 

 shade from the sun. 



Dormant trees and shrubs should be in the 

 ground by the 15th. Fertilize and dig around 

 rose-trees, shrubs, and all plants that remain 

 in the ground during winter. 



Currants, gooseberries and raspberries should 

 be sprayed or powdered during the last week of 

 the month. I prefer using the copper-sulphur 

 solution. 



April is such a busy month that it really seems 

 as if it should have ninety instead of its or- 

 dained thirty days. The only way to come out 



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