KALENDARIUM HORTENSE 



Transplant the Beet-chard which you sow'd in August 

 to have most ample Chards. Sow also Carrots, Cab- 

 bages, Cresses, Fennel, Marjoram, Basil, Tobacco, etc. 

 And transplant any sort of Medicinal Hearbs. 



Mid-March dress up and string your Strawberry-beds, 

 and uncover your Asparagus, spreading and loosening 

 the Mould about them, for their more easy penetrating. 

 Also you may transplant Asparagus roots to make new 

 Beds. 



By this time your Bees sit ; keep them close Night 

 and Morning, if the weather prove ill. Turn your 

 Fruit in the Room where it lies, but open not yet the 

 windows. 



Fruits in Prime, or Yet Lasting. 



Apples. 



Golden Duchess (Doucet), Pepins, Reineting, Loues 

 Pearmain, Winter Pearmain, John- Apple, etc. 



PEARS. 



Later Bon-crestien, Double Blossom Pear, etc. 



MARCH. 



To be done 

 In the Parterre, and Flower Garden. 



Stake and binde up your weakest Plants and Flowers 

 against the Windes, before they come too fiercely, and in 

 a moment prostrate a whole year's labour. 



Plant Box, etc., in Parterres. Sow Pinks, Sweet 

 Williams, and Carnations, from the middle to the end of 

 this Moneth. Sow Pine kernels, Firr-seeds, Bays, Ala- 

 tirnus, Phillyrea, and most perennial Greens, etc. Or 

 you may stay till somewhat later in the Moneth. Sow 



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