Jan. The Gardeners Kalenda7\ 3 



and fpread it upon the ground, repair hedges, 

 rub out and clean your feeds, and prepare fiireds 

 and nails for thofe trees which are to be pru- 

 ned in the next month : and get all the Gar- 

 den-tools ready for ufe when the weather is 

 mild, that you may not be hindered with thefe 

 things when every other part of the bulinefs is 

 in great hafte ; for if, in this and the next 

 month, you omit putting in your crops, when- 

 ever the weather will permit, you will find a 

 great lofs attend it the following fpring and 

 fummer, efpecially in dry land. 



Make a hot- bed for fowing early Cucum- 

 bers; and as there is fome hazard of the plants 

 fuccceding at this feafon, efpecially in bad years, 

 or where there is not due care taken in their at- 

 tendance; fo there fhould be fome feeds put 

 into the bed at three or four different times this 

 month, that if fome fhould fail, the others 

 may fupply their lofs: there fliould alfo be one 

 or two hot-beds m.ade at about three weeks dif- 

 tance from each other for to force Afparagus, 

 to fucceed thofe beds which were made the lafl 

 month, that there may be no want of it in the 

 kitchen, w^hereit is required during the winter 

 feafon. 



Sow CrefTes, Muflard, Rape, Radifh, Tur- 



nep; and other forts of fmall Sallet-herbs, up- 



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