KALENDAR, 



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Flower-Garden and Shrubbery. — Sow the same as last month, 

 sow at the end for succession, the same things; but those then sowed 

 in a hot-bed;, to forward them, may now be sowed in the open ground : 

 propagate by layers^ slips, and cuttings ; strike slips or cuttings of 

 China roses on gentle heat 3 prick out on gentle heat tender annuals 

 to forward them. Shelter choice auriculas in pots from wind, rain, 

 and sun. This is the best time to plant evergreens ; plant dahlias, cry- 

 santhemums, stocks^ and other hardy annuals. Mow grass-plats, &c., 

 sweep and roll. 



Forcing Ground. — Keep the grapery to about seventy-five degrees, 

 pull o£F all useless shoots and top-bearing branches 3 keep your 

 cucumbers and melons in free growth, less artificial heat, air and 

 water more freely. If the plants droop at hot sun, shade for an hour 

 or two, make beds for succession as required ; sow cucumbers for 

 planting under hand-glasses in May ; gourds, squashes, pumpkins. 

 Keep the hardier things that are forced, such as potatoes, French beans, 

 &c., duly watered ; give air by taking the glasses off, cover at night. 



Green-House. — Fire heat will not now be wanted, unless to expel 

 damp and sharp frost 3 air and water more freely. Shift and re-pot those 

 plants which need it. Propagate by the rules laid down for last month. 

 If insects appear, fumigate them, strike heaths, sow and graft camellias ; 

 prune and tie where wanted. 



MAY. 



Kitchen Garden.- — Sow kidney-beans, brocoli for spring use, 

 cape for autumn, cauliflowers for December 5 Indian corn, cress, 

 cucumbers under hand-glasses, and in the open ground, for pickling. 

 Onions to plant out next year as bulbs ; radishes, spinage, salsafy, 

 skirrets, squash, nasturtiums, herbs, endive (not much), turnips, cab- 

 bages, savoys, lettuces, coleworts, prick out and plant celery, lettuces, 

 capsicums, basil, marjorum and other annual herbs, love-apples j slip 

 sage, this is proverbially the best time of the year for its striking. Plant 

 radishes for seed, spring-sown cabbages, finish planting of potatoes stick 

 peas, move cucumbers and squashes put out last month, top beans when 

 in blossom 5 hoe and thin out the crops of onions, carrots, lettuces, 

 parsnips, and other spring crops : hoe and earth up peas, beans, potatoes, 

 keep the hoe w^ell moving, and destroy weeds everywhere. Tie up 

 lettuces and cabbages to heart in, and blanch for use. Mark the 

 stumvs of best cabbages when cut, to put out for seed ; when the stumps 

 have sprouted above two inches, take them up, and lay them in by the 

 heels at 'a foot apart, and about three feet from row to row. 



