324 



KALENDAR. 



have stood the winter, and the weather be mild and the plants in a grow- 

 ing state^ transplant them on a sunny spot of rich light soil ; do not 

 be afraid of winds and frosts. Sow savoys for early planting, leeks, 

 cabbages if wanted, spinage, parsnips, parsley, carrots, Dutch turnips 

 under litter, cauliflowers on heat. ]\rany of these sowings must 

 depend on the natiire of your soil and the weather. Plant cabbages^ 

 garlickj rocambole, onions for seed, shalots, chives, horseradish-crowns. 

 Get what hoeing you can done in dry days : get as close in with your 

 work as you can ; and prepare for the busy month of March. 



pRuiT Garden. — Continue, and. conclude if you can, the business of 

 last month ; prime and nail in peaches, apricots, figs, nectarines 3 lay 

 Tiines (in pots is the best way), soic haws, pips, and fruit kernels 5 many 

 kinds of which may not only be much forwarded, but secured, if sown 

 under glass, from the birds and vermin : in their infant state many of 

 these things are very tender. Plant fruit-trees, shrubs, and boshes ; 

 crab, apple, pear, and other stocks for next year's grafting : if favour- 

 able weather, grafting may be begun at the close of the month 5 col- 

 lect and prepare scions for grafting. 



F1.0WER Garden. — Towards the end, if open weather, transplant 

 pinks, carnations, and other hardy flowers, part the roots of southern- 

 wood, sweet-williams, candytuft, campanula, &c., if not done in the 

 autumn make and repair box and thrift edgings. Get your straw- 

 berries, grass lawns and verges and gravel walks, into order. 



FoRCixG Ground. — Attend to your cucumbers and melons, and to 

 all other matters in this department. Sow cucumbers and melons to 

 pot and ridge out in March : many articles may now be forced with 

 less diflSculty than in the former month, as, kidney-beans, strawberries, 

 rhubarb ; less heat and less covering will be required, unless the 

 weather is particularly severe. 



Green-House. — Give air freely, when the weather admits of so 

 doing, no more fire-heat than is necessary to keep out frost and dispel 

 damp ; other management as last month : shorten and head straggling 

 growing plants. ' - 



AIAECH. 



Kitchen Garden. — Sou: artichokes. Windsor beans, cauliflowers to 

 come in the autumn : celery^ capsicums, love-apples, marjoram and 

 basil, on gentle heat ; lettuces, marigold, blue, Prussian, and other peas 

 in succession : onions for a principal crop, but do not sow them till 

 the ground works well and fine j parsley, radishes, borare, sr^voys, 

 small salading in succession as wanted asparagus in seed ; e^:? icets, 



