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few days tothe sun. Itis best to shell them at once, and after they 
are shelled put them to air and sun again for a few days longer. Sacks 
are better to keep them in, than barrels or boxes. The Red and White 
Kidney are generally the varieties used for drying. Beans raised in 
spring are hard to keep, and if intended for seed they should be put 
up in bottles, or in tin boxes, and a little camphor sprinkled between 
them. ; 
Sweet potatoes should be planted. 
APRIL. 
Sow Bush, Pole and Lima Beans, Sweet Corn, Cucumber. Squash. 
Melons and Okra. 
Beets, Carrots, Swiss Chard, Radish, Lettuce, Mustard, Endive, 
Roquette, Cress, Parsley, Chervil and Celery for cutting. 
Sow Tomatoes, Egg Plant and Pepper for succession. It is rather 
late to sow Cabbage seed now, but if sown, the early varieties only can 
be successfully used. Kohlrabi can still be sown, but it is best to sow 
it thinly in drills a foot apart, and thin out to four inches in the rows. 
Towards the end of this month a sowing of the late Italian Giant 
Cauliflower can be made. It is very large, and takes from eight to 
nine months before it matures, so has to be sown early. It is always 
best to make a couple of sowings, so that in case one should fail the 
other may be used. This variety is hardier than the French and Ger- 
man kinds. A good plan is to sow the seed in boxes, elevated two 
feet or more above the ground, as it will keep the cabbage fly off. The _ 
plants should be overlooked daily, and all green cabbage worms or 
other vermin removed. 
Sweet potato Slips, for early crop, can be planted out. Early Irish 
Potatoes will be fit to dig now, and the ground they are taken out of 
may be pianted with Corn, Beans, Squash, ete. 
_ Sow Pumpkins of both kinds, the Fieid and the Cashaw. 
German Millet should be sown this month. The ground ought to be 
well plowed ang harrowed. Three pecks of seed is the quantum to be 
sown per acre. Jt will be well to roil the ground after sowing, and the 
seed will require no other covering. If no roller is handy, some brush 
tied together ought to be passed over the ground sown. For hay, it 
should be cut when in flower. Every planter should give it a trial. 
MAY. 
Very few varieties of vegetables can be sown during this month. 
Many of the winter varieties will not do wellifsown now. The grounds 
should now be occupied with growing crops. 
Where potatoes and Onions are taken up, Corn, Melons, Cucumbers, 
Squash and Pumpkin may be planted. e 
Nothing of the Cabbage kind, except the Creole Cabbage seed, can 
be sown this month. It is supposed to stand the heat better than the 
other varieties, but it makes only loose heads, and runs up to seed as 
early as the end of November. 
Yellow and white summer Radish and Endive should be sown. Let- 
tuce requires much water during hot weather, and if neglected, it will 
