go TI)e Gardeners Kalendar. Mar, 

 the plants will begin to appear^ and if they are 

 expofed to the full fun but one day, while they 

 are young, it will deflroy moft of them : you 

 inuft alfo refreih them with water in dry wea- 

 ther, but give it them very gently, left you 

 wafli them out of the ground. 



Your pots of choice Auriculas muft now 

 be taken care of, to protedt them from blight- 

 ing winds and frofty nights, which will other- 

 wife pinch their flower buds, and fpoil their 

 blowing : you muft alfo refrefh them now and 

 then with water in dry weather, but do not let 

 the wet get into the center of the plants, left it 

 injure the flower ftems. 



Dig up the ground in your v^ildernefs quar- 

 ters, and between flowering fhrubs, If it hath 

 not been done the former month : this will 

 loofen the ground, and encourage the flirubs to 

 flower ftrongly, and render the place free from 

 weeds ; for neatnefs is always to be defired in 

 every part of a garden : but in doing of this, 

 there ftiould be great care taken not to cut or 

 injure the roots of fuch flowers as are planted 

 between the trees and fhrubs. 



Give freih earth to the Carnations which 

 were planted out for good in the autumn, 

 which muft be done by taking part of the earth 

 out of the potSj being careful not to diftrub 



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