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havock with them; and where hares or rabbets 

 can come to Carnations, they generally make 

 clear work, feldom leaving any in their reach. 

 The fparrows alio, at this feafon, often peck 

 out the heart or inner leaves of thefe plants, 

 if they are not prevented. 



At the latter end of this month you muft 

 provide fome new dung, which (hould be 

 thrown on an heap to warm for about ten or 

 twelve days, and turned over two or three 

 times, to mix the parts well together, in the 

 fame way as is pradlifed for Cucumber beds, 

 to make fome hot-beds to fow the choiceft 

 forts of annual flowers upon, as the Amaran- 

 thus Tricolor, Cockfcomb, Globe Amaran- 

 thus, Diamond Ficoides, double Stramonium, 

 fome of the forts of the annual Ketmia, Me- 

 longena, and other tender kinds of annual 

 plants that they may be brought forward to 

 flower ; for the plants which are raifed early 

 will be ftronger, than thofe which are fown 

 later in the feafon ; and by this method you 

 may exped to obtaiij good feeds from all the 

 forts, whereas many of them will not produce 

 any in this clim.ate, when they are not brought 

 forward in the fpring. 



Prune up wildernefs trees, and flowering 

 ilirubs where they grow too much out of 



Ihape, 



