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plants, make hotbeds, sow and transplant lettuce. 

 Attend to mushroom beds and sow mustard. For onions 

 put out as sets, those known as "Philadelphia Buttons" 

 keep the best. Of parsnips, Bloomsdale is the best. 

 Peas, Extra Early, Advancer, Premium Gem. Plant 

 early potatoes ; the Early Ohio is a prolific early. Sow 

 Market Gardeners' and Summer White radish; the 

 Strap-leaved Long Scarlet is an improvement on the 

 old Long Scarlet, and is recommended. Sow rhubarb 

 or plant roots. Sow seed of garden sage and tomatoes 

 in hot-bed ; Early Jersey ripens first. Sow turnips, but 

 generally so far north as Philadelphia these directions 

 will apply better to April than to March. 



SOUTHERN. Southward of Washington. Continue 

 to plant peas and beans; Landreth's Scarlet is a fine 

 golden wax. Transplant cabbage plants from winter 

 beds, especially Landreth's Earliest, also Jersey Wake 

 field. Remember to have fine head cabbage and lettuce ; 

 deep culture and highly manured soil is required. Sow 

 Extra Early Red onion and Extra Early Yellow. Leeks 

 may be sown and a few turnips. Plant potatoes. Sow 

 carrots and parsnips, if enough were not sown last 

 month. Mustard and Cutting lettuce, for small salad, 

 should be sown at least once a fortnight. Sow parsley 

 and tomatoes in warm situation ; those from the hotbed 

 may be set out. Sow peppers at the close of this month. 

 Watermelons Boss and Long Light Icing may be 

 planted, also Extra Early and Acme cantaloupe, and 

 Reedland Giant muskmelon. Cucumbers, First and 

 Choice ; Okra, Landreth's Long Green Pod ; also squash 

 and pumpkins. Beets and other root crops sown last 

 month will be advancing ; they should be thinned and 

 cultivated. Sow celery Paris Golden, and Spinach. 

 Dress asparagus beds if not already done, and set out 

 strawberry beds. French artichokes, if slipped and 

 dressed last month, should have attention. 



