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those that were sown last month, pot rooted cuttings 

 of them under frames, and lay the tubers that are to be 

 planted out next month into hotbeds to make them 

 push. 



Floiver Garden, — Guard Tulips and Ranunculuses 

 from heavy rains and frost ; the latter swell after 

 muchrain, and frost succeeding injures them extremely. 

 A top dressing of rotten compost at the commence- 

 ment of the month will be serviceable to Pansies. 

 Fork and dress all flower-beds and borders, taking 

 care not to loosen the roots of the plants, and 

 scatter lime, salt, or soot, to destroy snails and grubs, 

 W'hich will however be more effectively destroyed by 

 the activity of a sea gull with clipped wings, which 

 may be encouraged to roam about the garden at plea- 

 sure. 



Transplant annuals and biennials sown last autumn. 



Kitchen Garden. — Seakale is now abundant for the 

 table, by merely taking the trouble of blanching the 

 shoots, and covering the crowns with sifted coal ashes, 

 sand, peat, mould, or tan; fresh sowings or plantations 

 of it will, however, be always necessary at this season, 

 to keep up successions of plants, if they be wanted for 

 forcing in the early part of winter ; if yearling plants 

 are used instead of seed (which is, however, more cer- 

 tain of success, the best plants being those which 

 grow without removal from the places where the seed 

 Vv'as dropped) , a year is gained : for the same purpose, 

 roots of rhubarb may now be parted, and put into 

 fresh plantations. Asparagus and Elford's scarlet 

 stalked rhubarb (the former much more so), if wanted 

 for the table early, must be forced by a heavy cover- 

 ing of fermenting litter over the beds, or by digging 

 trenches between them as wide as the breadth of the 

 alleys will allow, two and a half or three feet deep, 

 and filling them up with litter, of which some should 

 -also be laid on hoops over the beds. When you have 



