GARDENING. 



to, cutting away all but the young 1 shoots; 

 these should be shortened about one- 

 third of their length. You may now set 

 out the cuttings from gooseberries and 

 currants, and the young shoots of rasp- 

 berries ; plant at least four feet asunder 

 every way, else your fruit will be small, 

 and deficient in flavour : choose an open 

 situation and a free soil. 



You must now prepare ground for plan- 

 tations of fruit-trees, choosing good situa- 

 tions ; your wall and espalier trees ought 

 to have ample room, not less than twenty 

 feet asunder : in a few years they will co- 

 ver well, and bear rich crops; standards 

 ought to be full forty feet apart : if the 

 weather proves severe, defer this work 

 until it mode rates, and look well to your 

 old trees, covering their roots with litter, 

 and supporting newly-planted standards 

 with stakes, leaning on hay-bands, so as 

 not to injure the bark. Prune old stand- 

 ards, and begin the forcing of hot-house 

 plants by closing well up, and keeping a 

 temperature of from seventy -five to eigh- 

 ty degrees, Fahrenheit. As the fruit be- 

 gins to ripen, allow water in moderation. 

 Your strawberries will particularly come 

 under notice in the forcing time ; and all 

 the potted plants must be placed in hot- 

 beds for that purpose. 



In your Floiver-garden, see that the au- 

 riculas, carnations, hyacinths, and tulips, 

 be well sheltered from inclement wea- 

 ther. You may now plant tulips, anemo- 

 nes, ranunculuses, crocuses, jonquils, nar- 

 cissuses, hyacinths, and all other bulbs ; 

 or you may set the roots on mantle and 

 chimney-pieces, on glasses filled with 

 water. Let all your perennial fibrous- 

 rooted plants, such as double wall-flowers, 

 double stocks, double sweet-williams, 

 chrysanthemums, &c.&c. that are in pots, 

 or under frames, be carefully attended to. 

 Cover seedlings and tender plants, not 

 omitting to give air in mild weather. You 

 should now prune and dig between your 

 flowering shrubs; and may plant out roses, 

 honeysuckles, lilacs, laburnums, privets, 

 jasmines, and a great variety of the hardy 

 class, observing to arrange them taste- 

 fully, according to their colours, foliage, 

 Scc.and setting those which are tallest, 

 when full grown, in the back part, where- 

 by you will not obscure the lesser kinds. 

 All hardy shrubs may now be propagated 

 by layers; and suckers may be removed 

 from roses, syringas, aspirzas, lilacs, &c. 

 into rows, where they should stand for 

 about two years, and then be set out to 

 where they are to remain ; cuttings of 

 hardy deciduous shrubs wUl now proceed. 



Trim your grass-walks and lawns, throw- 

 ing down worm-casts, and rolling with a 

 wooden roller. You may at this season 

 pare and lay turf. In dry weather, lay 

 down and roll the gravel-walks that were 

 ridged ; plant thrift and box edgings, if 

 not done in October or Novermber. Fo- 

 rest and ornamental trees should now be 

 planted on dry soils; these should, pro- 

 perly, be of the hardy kinds. Hedges 

 may be planted or plashed. 



In the jVursfry . Transplant and prune 

 your forest-trees, particularly those that 

 are deciduous, if the weather admits ; for 

 ever-greens the weather must be settled ; 

 prune and transplant flowering shrubs ; 

 plant fruit-tree stocks, and prepare for 

 extensive plantings and sowings ; in fros- 

 ty weather carry dung, &.c. losing no time; 

 take great care of young and seedling 

 trees ; propagate by cuttings 



In the Hot-house. Your pines will re- 

 quire great care ; you may also raise kid- 

 ney beans, cucumbers, strawberries, &c. 

 and have abundance of flowering plants 

 therein. 



FEBBUAHT. 



Kitchen-garden. Cucumbers and melons 

 will be sown with better success in this, 

 than in the former month ; but take care 

 they have not too much heat, as they will 

 be apt to wither : to prevent this, let 

 them be sown or set upon little hillocks, 

 or ridges, which will expose a greater 

 surface to the air ; stop, i. e. pinch off, the 

 young plants at the first joints of the first 

 shoots, so as to cause their sending out 

 many fruitful runners; do this when they 

 have two rough leaves, not longer than a 

 shilling ; force asparagus in hot-heds, 

 breaking off' the shoots with your finger, 

 avoiding to cut them ; kidney-beans, 

 small salading, &c. may proceed, asshewn 

 in the last month's directions; give your 

 cauliflower plants air, and by the end of 

 the month you may plant out to two feet 

 asunder, taking care to cover with haulm, 

 &c.; if the weather comes on very cold, 

 leave one plant under each glass ; sow- 

 cauliflower seed, transplant cabbages, 

 sow cabbage and savoy seeds, also early 

 celery, radishes of sorts, .spinach, lettuces, 

 carrots, parsnips, beets, leeks, onions, 

 beans, peas, pot-herbs, potatoes, horse- 

 radish, turnips,liquorice, &c. for a general 

 crop ; taking care to break the soil well, 

 and to choose favourable times for putting 

 in the seeds, or sets. 



In the Fruit-garden Continue to prune 

 fruit-trees, and especially vines, dress 



