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young shoots cut off with a small portion of the crown, 

 and potted under a frame. 



When your object is to multiply choice varieties, 

 you should separate the parent crown to the utmost, 

 and encourage numerous shoots, each of which will 

 produce a plant. 



Sow biennials, perennials, and hardy annuals, if 

 not done last month, and pot out tender annuals. 



Kitchen Garden. — Sow successions ; towards the 

 end of the month, plant out celery plants in drills, if 

 they have been previously pricked out and again trans- 

 planted in rich nursery plantation, in which case they 

 will be well rooted. Make trenches running north 

 and south, four feet from centre to centre, and one 

 foot deep ; dig at least six inches deep of old hotbed 

 dung into each trench as it is opened, and put the 

 plants along the middle six or eight inches apart with 

 a trowel. In preparing the plants, take off all side 

 slips ; but if the roots be vigorous, as they will be 

 under proper previous treatment, you ought neither to 

 trim them, nor cut off the leaves, as is so frequently 

 done in utter ignorance of the principles of vegetation. 

 If the sort of celery be diminutive, the trenches may 

 be a little nearer; and if the red, solid, or any other 

 large kind be selected, the trenches should be more 

 apart, to admit of copious earthings. 



Plant out cauliflowers under glasses ; sow turnips, 

 &c., &c., and a main crop of scarlet runners, wetting 

 the drills profusely. Transplant cabbages, savoys, 

 and lettuces ; prick out celery plants for successions. 



Prepare slight hotbeds for vegetable marrow and 

 gherkins in the open air; for the former there should 

 be at least twelve inches of fine compost, spread over 

 at least two feet of horse and cow-dung mixed ; as 

 this vegetable throws out numerous runners, and 

 produces abundantly in favourable weather, one plant 

 will be sufficient for each square yard. Thin out car. 



