KALENDARIUM HORTENSE 



then likewise cut off all the sick and infected 

 leaves. 



Now do the farewell-frosts, and Easterly-winds 

 prejudice your choicest Tulips, and spot them ; therefore 

 cover such with Mats or Canvass to prevent freckles, and 

 sometimes destruction. The same care have of your 

 most precious Anemonies, Auricula's, Chamae-iris, Bru- 

 mal Jacynths, Early Cyclamen, etc. Wrap your shorn 

 Cypress Tops with Straw wisps, if the Eastern blasts prove 

 very tedious. About the end uncover some Plants, but 

 with Caution ; for the tail of the Frosts yet continuing, 

 and sharp winds, with the sudden darting heat of the 

 Sun, scorch and destroy them in a moment ; and in such 

 weather neither sow nor transplant. 



Sow Stock-gilly-flower seeds in the Fall to produce 

 double flowers. 



Now may you set your Oranges, Lemons, Myrtils, 

 Oleanders, Lentises, Dates, Aloes, Amonumus, and like 

 tender trees and Plants in the Portico, or with the win- 

 dows and doors of the Green-houses and Conservatories 

 open for eight or ten days before April, or earlier, if the 

 Season invite, to acquaint them gradually with the Air ; 

 but trust not the Nights, unless the weather be thor- 

 oughly settled. 



Lastly, bring in materials for the Birds in the Aviary 

 to build their nests withal. 



FLOWERS IN PRIME, OR YET LASTING. 



Anemonies, Spring Cyclamen, Winter Aconite, Crocus, 

 Bellis, white and black Hellebor, single and double 

 Hepatica, Leucoion, Chamae-iris of all colours, Dens 

 Caninus, Violets, Fritillaria, Chelidonium, small with 

 double Flower, Hermodactyls, Tuberous Iris, Hyacinth, 

 Zenboin, Brumal, Oriental, etc. Junquils, great 



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