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and who have a small establishment, will find the middle 
or end of this month a good season to begin the forcing of 
vines or peaches. Be careful to protect the stems of vincs 
that are outside of the forcing-house. 
Let the green-house and conservatory have plenty of air 
in mild weather. Put in an extra quantity, if not done in 
autumn, of cuttings of desirable half-hardy green-house 
genera for the flower garden ; such as Pelargonium, Fuchsia, 
Salpiglossis, Calceolaria, Heliotropium, Salvia, Verbena, 
Petunia, Alonsoa, Mimulus, Lobelia, Maurandia, Tropzo- 
lum, Bouvardia, Rodochiton, Leptospermum, Anagallis. 
Many species and varieties of such genera are of great 
beauty, and contribute most essentially to the rich appear- 
ance of the flower garden during the summer and autumn 
months. Sow stocks, a few tender annuals and dahlia seed, 
on a slight hotbed or in pots. 
Flower Garden.—In good weather, plant dried roots, 
including most of the finer florists’ flowers; continue the 
transplanting of hardy biennial’ flowers, and perennial 
herbaceous plants, shrubs, and deciduous trees. 
Sow in the last week mignonette, and several species of 
hardy annuals, in a warm border for subsequent transplant+ 
ing—particularly Clarkia, Collinsia, Collomia, Eutoca. 
Gillia, Limnanthes, Nemophila, (Mnothera. 
MARCH, 
Kitchen Garden.—This is a busy month in English gar- 
dens. Main crops of peas, beans, cabbages, and onions, 
leeks, carrots, parsnips, Brussel sprouts, borecoles, lettuces, 
and spinach, are now to be sown. Where space is rather 
limited, some of the crops, especially peas and beans, may 
occupy drills four or five feet asunder, so as to permit the 
