Feb. ^e Gardeners Kalendar. 49 

 they efcape till the next month they will get 

 abroad, and make great havock in the kitchen- 

 garden. If your early fruit trees againft the 

 walls begin to open their flowers, they muft 

 be carefully covered with mats, reeds, or fome 

 other coverings ; otherwife they will be in 

 danger of fuffering by frofls, or cold winds, 

 which frequently happen at this feafon. But 

 where any of thefc coverings are ufed, it muft 

 be done with great care, fo as not to bruife or 

 rub oft the buds or bloflbms, therefore reeds 

 are the beft covers, becaufe they are not fo 

 liable to beat againft the trees as mats and other 

 loofe coverings, and they are alfo much eafier 

 to remove at all times in mild weather, where- 

 by the bloflbms will not be made too tender, 

 nor the (hoots of the trees draw weak, for this 

 will be attended with worfe confequences than 

 if they were expofed to the inclemency of the 

 feafon. 



You may now plant Hops, dig the ground 

 and prune the roots of the old hop grounds, 

 being careful not to injure the buds of the 

 plants which now begin to fwell. 



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