312 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [April. 



Propagation of Exotic Trees, Shrubs and Plants. 



This is a very proper time to sow such seeds of rare plants as you 

 are able to procure; those that are in good condition, and whose 

 nature it is to vegetate the first season, will rise freely, but many 

 kinds will not grow for three, four, five, or six months after sow- 

 ing, and others not for a year; therefore, it will be necessary to 

 have patience, and to take care all the time of the whole, as well 

 the pots in which the plants do not rise, as those that do; if you 

 have room to plunge them into the bark pit, or into hot-beds at 

 work, or made for the purpose, it will greatly facilitate their 

 growth. 



You may now propagate many kinds by suckers, cuttings, and 

 layers, which should be duly attended to, particularly such as are 

 scarce and difficult to be obtained. 



Raising curly Flowers, Fruits, fyc. in the Hot-House. 



Pots of any desirable flowering plants may still be introduced to 

 forward an early bloom, such as pinks, fuschias, hydrangeas, roses, 

 carnations, and many others. See February, &c. 



Also pots of strawberries and vines, as in the two former months, 

 to continue the supply of early fruit. 



Likewise, a few more kidney-beans, &c. See last month and 

 January. 



In hot-houses where vines are trained in from plants growing on 

 the outside, and conducted up under the glasses, &c, they will, 

 towards the end of this month, or earlier, according to the degree 

 of heat kept up, be well advanced in young shoots, having fruit, 

 which shoots should be carefully trained along in regular order, 

 and all the improper and superfluous growths cut away. 



THE KITCHEN GARDKN. 



Previotts to entering upon the work of the kitchen garden, &c. 

 for this month, it will be proper to observe that a great portion of 

 the open ground culture and sowing necessary to be done in some 

 places in April, have been fully treated of in March, in order to 

 accommodate those citizens of the middle states, whose gardens, 

 from the nature of soil and situation, admit of early sowing, as well 



