GARDENING, 



and hedges, clean your garden wall, clear 

 your gravel walks from rubbish, lay your 

 turf where wanted, and roll your lawns 

 very smooth in dry weather. 



In the Nursery. Graft on proper stocks, 

 sow the seeds of deciduous trees and 

 shrubs, propagate also by cuttings, sow 

 hardy evergreens ; weed the whole care- 

 fully, and water seedlings. 



In the Green-House. Moderate the heat, 

 by admitting fresh air in mild weather; 

 if frosty, or very cold, keep all shut close ; 

 trim your orange-trees, myrtles, &c. into 

 shape ; shift such plants as require larger 

 pots, give fresh earth to the roots in gene- 

 ral; sow the seeds of exotics, and of 

 oranges for stocks. 



In the Hot-House. Your pines will be- 

 gin to shew fruit ; therefore keep up the 

 neat, water these plants frequently, and, 

 in favourable days, admit a little air. 



Kitchen-garden. Keep up yourhot-beds 

 for cucumbers and melons, allowing the 

 young plants air daily ; give water occa- 

 sionally, and remove decayed leaves ; if 

 the sun is very powerful, put mats, &c. 

 over your glasses ; impregnate the female 

 flowers, by means of the fine powder on 

 the antherse of the male blossoms, this 

 will insure an early crop, and should be 

 done on the day the flowers first open ; 

 make hot-bed ridges, to receive the plants 

 intended to be set out under bell or hand 

 glasses ; sow melon and cucumber seeds 

 for a late crop, plant out your lettuces, 

 sow small salading, radishes, turnips, spi- 

 nach, kidney-beans, brocoli, onions, 

 leeks, cardoons, carrots, parsnips, pot- 

 herbs, capsicums, love-apples, scorzone- 

 ra, salsafy, purslane, beans, peas, gourds, 

 and pompions ; set potatoes for a late 

 crop, and plant slips of pot and sweet 

 herbs ; destroy weeds, and water young 

 plants when the weather is dry. 



In the Fruit-garden. You may plant 

 trees, propagate vines,, summer-dress the 

 old ones, protect the blossoms of wall- 

 fruit, rub oflf useless buds, and thin the 

 fruit where too numerous ; you may yet 

 prune, and graft, or bud ; destroy insects 

 and weeds, clean your strawberries very 

 carefully, and clear them from runners, 

 except what you keep for planting out in 

 June ; water these plants well, or they 

 will bear but poorly. 



In the Pleasure-garden. You may yet 

 sow tender annuals on hot-beds; the more 

 hardy will succeed with less heat, and 

 the hardy will only require warm clean 

 borders : your bulbous roots will be in 



blossom, and must be amply watered j 

 in very hot weather you must shade them, 

 or they will soon pass off"; carnations and 

 polyanthuses may yet be sown ; those in 

 pots will demand attention ; transplant 

 fibrous rooted perennials, sow some also -, 

 set your tuberoses in hot-beds, or in hot- 

 houses ; pay attention to your auriculas, 

 and save their seed very carefully ; sow 

 balm of Gilead, plant out ever greens and 

 flowering shrubs, propagate them ; roll 

 your grass walks often, and, if too luxu- 

 riant, mow them; plant box and thrift 

 edgings, put sticks to your flowering 

 plants, roll your gravel-walks after turn- 

 ing them, and destroy weeds every 

 where. 



In the Nursery. Finish sowing ever- 

 greens, flowering-shrubs, and ti*ee-seeds; 

 water your seed-beds, transplant ever- 

 greens, examine your grafts, and make 

 new ones early in the month. 



In the Green-house. Give air to your 

 plants, water and shift into larger pots or 

 tubs, put fresh earth, cleanse the plants, 

 head down myrtles, &c. inarch, and pro- 

 pagate by seeds and cuttings. 



Inthe Hot-house. Your pine-apples will 

 demand daily attendance, and must be 

 liberally supplied with water, keep the 

 heat well up, admit air occasionally in 

 suitable weather ; stove exotics may now 

 be propagated by seeds, cuttings, layers, 

 or suckers. 



Kitchen-garden. As your melons and 

 cucumbers, will be getting fast forward, 

 you must carefully keep up the heat of 

 your beds by fresh linings of dung, and 

 screen from cold at night ; in the day, 

 give air at suitable times, and occasional- 

 ly water moderately. You will now, in 

 all probability, have occasion to raise 

 your glasses, so as to give room ; do this 

 by putting bricks, &c. under the frames. 

 As the melons set, place a tile under 

 each, else the damp of the bed will stain 

 and render the lower part unsightly. You 

 can now sow cucumbers for pickling : 

 this may be done in a free soil, fully ex- 

 posed to the sun. At night cover the 

 young plants with straw, &c. You may 

 also sow gourds, &c. This is a good 

 time for a full crop of kidney beans, and, 

 if fair, for the scarlet runners: put in 

 small salading, spinach, turnips, carrots, 

 parsnips, onions, for succeeding crops ; 

 taking care to weed and water those for- 

 merly sown : set out cabbages and savoys; 

 screen your cauliflowers from the sun, by 



