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seedlings of the tender plants you may want. Mushroom beds may 

 be made. 



Green-House. — Fire heat will not be necessary now, unless in 

 unusually cold or damp weather, or, when frost is indicated j give air 

 and vvater more freely. Shift and re-pot those plants that require it. 

 Propagate by cuttings, slips, layers, and parting the roots, grafting, 

 budding, and inarching. Sow geranium and balm-of-Gilead seeds, 

 &c., on slight heat. Pot out in small pots, when fit, the balsams, 

 amaranthuses, cockscombs, sensitives, and other tender annuals, on 

 slight heat under glass ; they will, the best of them, have to take their 

 station in the green-house, when the present possessors, the geraniums, 

 myrtles, &c., are turned out. — See Flower Garden^ March. 



APRIL. 



Kitchen Garden. — Beans may still be sown, peas, kidney beans, 

 scarlets, beets, brocoli, purple, white, and brimstone, late and early of 

 all sorts : the cape about the third week, the sprouting the first week 3 

 savoys, cabbages, green cale, brown cale, Lapland ditto, and sea cale, 

 it is best to sow this last in drills where it is to remain, as it trans- 

 plants with great difficulty and never well, on account of the brittleness 

 of the roots ; sow it in drills about eighteen inches apart, from row to 

 row. Continue sowing in general what was directed last month if 

 wanted, and not then sown, or the seed or plants destroyed or failed. 

 Kidney-beans for full crop at the end of the month if dry, also scarlet- 

 runners, herbs, onions to pull young. Leeks, turnips, spinage, caraway, 

 basil and marjorum on heat. Plant potatoes, slips of thyme, lavender, 

 sage, rosemary, rue, tansey,balm, hyssop, tarragon, wormwood, sorrel, 

 savory, by parting of the roots 5 mint, by cutting the young sprigs 

 about an inch in the ground, with a portion of the roots. Plant lettuces, 

 celery for early use, cauliflowers, cabbages, if required, leeks, turnips, 

 transplant onions, prick out the capsicums sown last month on gentle 

 heat J prick out celery sown in February or March. Hoeing and 

 weeding are now required among all the crops planted in autumn, and 

 as spring-planted grow, weeding and hoeing must be done to promote 

 grov/th. Stick peas. 



Fruit Garden. — Finish planting trees and shrubs and stocks 3 head 

 down newly-planted trees and stocks ; finish hedging, ditching, and 

 banking, all clean up. Sow fruit-stones, kernels, and pips, protect 

 blossoms, rub off all the useless and foreright shoots of wall-trees in 

 time. Attend to newly-grafted trees, and keep the clay firm. Sow 

 seeds of forest trees. 



