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salsafy, scorzenera, skirrets, fennel, cabbages, red and white, turnips, 

 nasturtiums, early purple brocoli, thynie, and all sorts of herbs that 

 are raised from seed, Brussels-sprouts, parsnips, round spinage, leeks, 

 carrots for a main crop, chervil, coriander, French beans at the close 

 of the month in a warm soil ; plant out cauliflowers, hops in clumps for 

 iheir tops, small onions last year's sowing, for early heading, old 

 onions for seed, lettuces, perennial herbs by slips or parting the roots, 

 asparagus, artichokes from suckers, potatoes for a main crop, cabbages, 

 white and red, Jerusalem artichokes, chives, potato-onions, &c. 



Fkuit Garden. — Head down old trees and shrubs, plant out trees 

 and shrubs, continue and finish pruning if you can ; plant out stocks 

 for next year's grafting and budding, if not done in autumn, (this is 

 the principal month for grafting most sorts of trees,) plant gooseberries, 

 currants, raspberries, protect blossoms of fruit-trees when in blossom, 

 dig fruit-tree borders. 



Flower Gardex. — Son: adonis, alyssum, prince's feather, snap- 

 dragon, yellow balsam, candy-tuft, catchfly, convolvulus minor, devil- 

 in-a-bush, hawkweed, Indian pink, larkspurs, lavatera, linaria^ i^ig- 

 nonette, moonwort, nasturtiums, nigella, palma christi, pansey, 

 sweet pea, persicaria, scabious, sun-flowers, strawberry-spinage, ten- 

 week-stocks, sweet sultan, venus-naval-wort. On hot-bed, soic convol- 

 vulus major, amaranthus, tricolor and globe, balsam, chinaster, china 

 hollyhock, chrysanthemums, jacobea (French groundsel), ten-week- 

 stocks, zinnia, marvel-of-Peru, plant autumnal bulbs, such as the tiger 

 flower, dahlias, anemones, and ranunculuses, if any not yet planted, 

 may make a late blossom. Hardy kinds of potted plants that have been 

 sheltered should be now gradually inured to the open air, dress auri- 

 culas, carnations, protect best tulips and hyacinths, plant offsets, and 

 part fibrous-rooted plants, take up and plant layers of carnations, pinks, 

 seedlings of the same and other things and plant them, plant box, 

 thrift, and daisies for edgings. Many of even the more hardy kinds 

 of plants will be much advanced if sown on a little heat, and care- 

 fully hardened to the open air before put out. Lay turf, put and keep 

 gravel-walks in good order, also grass-plats and edgings, roll, poll, 

 and sweep, keep the shrubbery clean, remove all litter, finish planting 

 shrubs. 



Forcing Ground. — This is a good time to begin to force vines, if you 

 you have a grapery , the sun will so materially assist you. Cucumbers 

 and melons, in fruit, and beginning to show fruit, must be carefully at- 

 tended to: give air and water as required 3 line the beds as the heat 

 declines: cover carefully, and uncover early 3 sow for a crop for June 

 and August : make slight hot beds for French beans, and for raising 



