KALENDAR. 



and dig old asparagus ground and throw up earth on the 

 surface, and the same with clumps of artichokes, and dig 

 between cabbage-stumps planted in the autumn to bear seed this 



year. Clip box-edging. FRUIT-GARDEN. Graft all sorts of 



trees, prune, protect blossoms of peach and other fruit-trees, look 



after vermin narrowly, and transplant trees. FLOWER-BORDERS. 



Sow adonis, alysson, prince's feather, snap-dragon, yellow balsam, 

 candy-tuft, catchfiy, convolvulus minor, devil-in-a-bush, hawkweed, 

 Indian pink, ketmina, larkspurs, lavetera, linaria, mignonette, moon- 

 wort, nasturtiums, nigella, palma Christi, pansey, sweet-pea, per- 

 sicaria, scabious, sun-flowers, strawberry spinage, stocks two ten 

 weeks, sweet sultan, Venus' navel-wort. On hot-bed, sow con- 

 volvulus major, amaranthus tricolor and globe, balsams, china 

 aster, china hollyhock, chrysanthemums, colutea, capsicums, jaco- 

 bea (French grounsel), ten-week stock, zinnia, marvel of Peru. 

 Plant autumnal flowering-bulbs, such as the tiger flower. 



April. 



KITCHEN-GARDEN. Sow Windsor, long-pod, and kidney beans, 

 beets, broccoli, for autumnal use, Brussels'-sprouts, sugar-loaf 

 cabbage ; savoys and dwarf green cabbage for winter use, kale for 

 winter use; carraway, carrots, chervil, coriander, corn-salad, cress, 

 cucumbers in beds, dill, fennel, hyssop, lettuce, mint, parsnip, peas, 

 radishes, rampion, rape, samphire, savory, scorzenera, sorrel, 

 squashes in hot-bed, tarragon, thyme, tomatums in hot-bed, worm- 

 wood. Move capsicums, cauliflowers of last month, melons and 

 cucumbers to their bearing beds. Plant potatoes, slips of thyme, 

 lavender, mint, rosemary, rue, sage, tansey, sorrel, wormwood. 

 FRUIT-GARDEN. Propagate by layers; head down young trees, and 

 cut stocks down close to the ground ; finish grafting ; prune young 



f ruit-trees, and watch and destroy vermin. FLOWER-BORDERS. 



Sow the same as last month, or sow at the very end of April, for 

 succession, the same things ; but those then sowed in a hot-bed may 

 now be sowed in the open ground. Propagate by layers, slips, and 

 cuttings, and by separating roots. Put ont the less tender of your 

 green-house plants. 



