GARDENING. 



strawberry beds, plant fruit-trees, dig the 

 borders, graft, and go on forcing the early 

 flowers and fruits. 



In the Flower-garden. You may sow 

 tender annuals on hot-beds, during the 

 early part of the month ; and towards the 

 end all the hardy annuals ; plant out the 

 hardy fibrous rooted plants, such as prim- 

 roses, violets, polyanthuses, &c. ; dress 

 your auriculas, and sow their seed; also 

 those of the polyanthus, in rich, light 

 earth, very shallow ; transplant your car- 

 nations, defend bulbous roots, prune 

 flowering shrubs, plant out such as are 

 wanted, together with evergreens ; plant 

 hedges, lay turf, trim lawns and walks, 

 .set box, &c. for edgings. 



In the Nursery. Propagate by cuttings, 

 suckers, and layers ; transplant layers, 

 flowering shrubs, stocks to graft OR, fruit 

 and forest trees ; sow seeds of ditto, and 

 head down budded stocks. 



In the Green-house. Look to the shrubs, 

 &c. ; giving air, and water, in proportion 

 to the mildness of the weather. You may 

 now trim myrtles, oranges, &.c. to any in- 

 tended form. 



In the Hot-house. The pines will demand 

 much assiduity ; for an improper degree 

 of heat will at this period injure them 

 very considerably : keep up to 75 degrees, 

 by means of fresh bark to be mixed with 

 that in which the pots were plunged. 

 Moderate watering will contribute both 

 to growth and flavour. Keep your exotics 

 very clean from decayed leaves, and wasli 

 dust, &c. from the leav es ; above all 

 things, remove cob-webs wherever they 

 appear ; and, if necessary, fumigate, to 

 destroy insects, which will now begin to 

 shew themselves. Fresh air must now 

 and then be admitted, when the weather 

 admits. Your strawberries, kidney-beans, 

 cucumbers, roses, &c. will now get fast 

 forward ; but you must guard against frost, 

 which would do great injury, if your fires 

 were neglected. 



Kitchen-garden. Attend to your cucum- 

 bers and melons ; you may now sow the 

 seeds of the later sorts ; such as the 

 Smyrna, the long 1 green, and long white 

 Turkey kinds. Make new hot-beds, to 

 receive them when fit to transplant. 

 About this time, your cauliflower-plants 

 may be removed from the warm borders, 

 and set out ; these will now occupy the 

 beds of your spinach and radishes ; which 

 will soon be gone, and leave only the cau- 

 liflowers. Sow brocoli for an autumnal 

 crop ; also cabbages, some of which may 



now be transplanted. Sow savoys, and 

 lettuces, also spinach, leeks, onions, bore- 

 cole, radishes of sorts, carrots, and pars- 

 nips, all on good soil, well prepared, and 

 made very fine ; fork and dress up your 

 asparagus, and plant out where wanted ; 

 you may also sow some seed ; dress your 

 artichokes, and plant out; set beans for a 

 full crop, also peas ; earth up any that 

 are grown sufficiently ; sow turnips for a 

 full crop, also celery, small salad, and all 

 the tribe of medical and pot-herbs ; nas- 

 turtiums may be sown very early in this 

 month ; capsicums should be in a hot-bed, 

 and be set out as the weather grows 

 warm, after they have four leaves ; if six, 

 or eight, the better. Love-apples will re- 

 quire the same treatment ; kidney-beans, 

 potatoes, and Jerusalem artichokes, 

 should not be omitted. Set slips of rose- 

 mary, rue, chives, mint ; and let your gar- 

 lic, scallions, cardoons, &c. now be com- 

 mitted to the soil. 



In the Fruit-garden. Prune your fig- 

 trees, and plant also where they are want- 

 ed ; if your wall fruit-trees have not been 

 trimmed, lose no time in attending to 

 them ; some will be in bloom, if the sea- 

 son favours ; cover such with mats at 

 night, to keep the frost from injuring 

 them. Fruit-trees in general may yet be 

 planted out, but no time should be lost ; 

 and the borders in which they stand 

 should now be well dug. Prune vines, and 

 propagate by means of cuttings. It is ex- 

 pedient to remark, in this place, that it 

 has been recently proposed to graft vines 

 upon elders at this season, under the idea 

 of producing early fruit, and of giving the 

 clusters more time for ripening ; the sug- 

 gestion is assuredly ingenious, and merits 

 trial. Dress your strawberries well, and 

 run light whisps of straw at right angles 

 under the foliage, so as to support the 

 leaves, and to retain the moisture in the 

 soil. Continue to force your early fruit, 

 taking care to keep up fires every night. 

 In the Floiver-garden. You will find am- 

 ple employment in setting out your early 

 aunuals, sowing tender annuals on hot- 

 beds, and the more hardy sorts in warm 

 borders. Fresh earth must be given to 

 plants in pots ; the chrysanthemums, auri- 

 culas, carnations, hyacinths, &c. will now 

 demand care, as will all your curious flow- 

 ers. Now plant anemones, and ranuncu- 

 luses, and sow the fibrous-rooted annuals 

 and biennials; transplant perennials, 

 prune your shrubs, hoe and rake your 

 borders, dig where necessary, and clean 

 your clumps ; plant deciduous flowering 

 shrubs, and forest-trees; transplant your 

 evergreens, remove roses, plant edgings 



