o84 CALENDAR——APRIL. 
ble. Attend to the dressing of shrubberies, laying of turf- 
edgings, and to the state of gravel-walks, 
APRIL. 
Kitchen Garden.—Sow main crops of asparagus, sea- 
kale, beet, salsify, scorzonera, skirret, carrots, and onions, on 
heavy soils; also peas, beans, turnips, spinach, celery, cab- 
bages, savoys, and German greens, for succession. Sow 
broccoli and kidney-beans both in the second and in the 
last week; cardoons not before the end of the month. 
Small salads should be sown twice or thrice during the 
month; also sweet herbs, if not sown last month. Graft 
fruit-trees. 
Plant cauliflower, cabbages, artichokes, sea-kale, lettuce, 
and finish the planting of the main crops of potatoes, and 
also of strawberries. Propagate all sorts of pot-herbs, 
and sweet herbs, such as lavender, marjoram, hyssop, balm, 
and pennyroyal. Attend to the hoeing and thinning of 
spinach, onions, turnips, and carrots. Harth up cabbages, 
cauliflower, peas, beans, and early potatoes. Stake up 
peas; blanch sea-kale and rhubarb in the open air, by 
covering with straw or leaves, or with boxes or earthen. 
ware covers. If some roots of scarlet-runners and of In- 
dian cress have been preserved over winter in dry sand, 
free from frost, they may now be planted out, and will 
afford an early show of flowers and crop of fruit. 
Fruit Trees—No pruning or planting ought to be left 
unfinished till this period; stone-fruits, in particular, are 
much injured. by spring pruning. If vines have been 
neglected, rubbing off the buds that are not wanted is 
now safer than pruning. Protect blossoms of the finer 
sorts of fruit-trees on the walls. 
