MAR.J 



THE GARDENER. 



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ing them, however, is by planting sets of the tuber in 

 well-manured drills, exactly as potatoes are cultivated; 

 any soil is good enough for them, though that which 

 is light and sandy is the best. Once established, it is 

 not easy to get rid of them, as any fractional part of 

 a tuber that has an eye will grow. 



Do not lose a season for any of your kitchen garden 

 seeds, most of the common sorts of which may, how- 

 ever, be now sown in sheltered borders, if the ground 

 be in a good state. Turnips and radishes will require 

 a warm bed, and though French beans may be sown 

 against a south wall, their success is doubtful if they 

 be put down before the end of the month at soonest. 

 Do not omit sowing the seed of Brussels sprouts, as 

 well as that of the savoy, borecole, and successions of 

 peas and beans. When you ha^e levelled the ribbed 

 and winter-manured ground for carrots and parsnips, 

 sow both crops in sufficiently wide drills, leaving a 

 greater breadth, however, between those of the latter 

 than of the former — say sixteen inches — and thin the 

 plants to eight inches asunder : stake peas, plant 

 and earth up cabbages, transplant cauliflowers and 

 lettuces, and put down cuttings of pot herbs, and 

 offsets of chives ; pick up and re-make gravel, and 

 mow turf walks ; dig and rake borders. The plant- 

 ing of fruit-trees may be proceeded with, but the 

 details are not given until the operations of October 

 or November are considered, which are better months 

 for the purpose. Mulch the valuable kinds, especially 

 if newly planted, to keep out drought. The planting 

 of evergreens had better be postponed till next month : 

 if you do plant or transplant stake them well, or the 

 wind will shake them severely. Peg down roses, 

 and finish the pruning of them ; lay some^ and take 

 off suckers : slip and part roots of various plants. 

 Dig the ground in the nursery between the rows ; prick 

 out seedlings, and plant cuttings and slips, and put 



