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commences removals will be much less advantageous. 

 This has reference to many miles round London, and 

 similar localities. In Dorsetshire, beautiful Devonshire, 

 west of that, and ii^the mild Channel Islands, work in 

 the gardens will be more forward. 



Continue to make cuttings, and to pot off growing 

 cuttings, removing the well-established plants to cooler 

 places, to make room for the new ones. Geraniums, Cal- 

 ceolarias, and Verbenas will strike readily now on a nicely 

 made hot-bed. Those who wish to use many bedding 

 plants in their garden ought at this time to have a large 

 supply on hand, from fine cuttings made in the autumn, 

 to be continually reinforced, this month, by fresh-made 

 cuttings. 



Hardy annuals, which were sown in February, should 

 be hardened off for planting out. Some Sweet Peas may 

 be sown very thinly in pots, and raised in a gentle hot- 

 bed. Some may also be sown in the open borders, and 

 if, when those which are a little forced come forward, one 

 pot of the forced peas is planted close against a clump 

 of those grown in the natural ground, the two will make 

 a fine clump which will come forward early, and last in 

 flower a long time. Prick out the plants of ten week 

 Stocks, and any similar seedlings in hand, and so\vmore 

 seed for a succession. 



This month there may be a general sowing of hardy 

 annuals in the borders, and also seeds of good peren- 

 nials and biennials without stint. In fact, abundant 

 provision of plants of all kinds must be made, and all 

 our lists looked over and books consulted, to see that 

 we forget nothing which we shall have reason to wish 

 for wdien we come to plant out finally, for every fine 

 week lost now will be doubly missed later in the 

 year. 



Half-hardy annuals may be sow^n in a hot-bed, and 

 when the seedlings are an inch or two tall they may be 

 transplanted into another hot-bed, or planted out in pots 

 to remain until i\Iay, when they may be planted out in 

 the borders. Tender or greenhouse annuals may also 

 be sown in a hot-bed, pricked out into another, and 



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