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when put in, frost will have very little effect on the 

 pots. This is a plan very similar to what is used in 

 many places, and one which we find to answer very 

 well."* 



The other method is this, but defective in the im- 

 portant particular of protection overhead : — " Let the 

 ashes be carefully protected from wet until wanted for 

 use. If you plant along the walks of the kitchen gar- 

 den, open a drill with the hoe or spade, and put in the 

 ashes four or five inches deep ; cover lightly with 

 earth, and beat the surface fii'mly with the spade ; 

 dibble in the plants at six inches apart. In other 

 plantations this would be too close, but where there 

 is but one row, with abundant room on each side, they 

 will succeed well, and the edging will be more correct. 

 In quarters where they are planted in beds or drills, 

 they should be at intervals of eighteen inches between 

 the rows, and twelve or fourteen inches apart. The 

 runners should be allowed to take possession of the 

 intermediate space, and the old plants destroyed eveiy 

 second year ; but in every case plant if possible in 

 ashes. I have seen a very small garden, edged along 

 the walks with strawberries, by this means produce 

 earlier and better fruit than any other near it, and in 

 quantities that baffled the consuming power of the 

 owner and many of his neighbours."! 



Mulch newly-planted fruit-trees ; plant fruit-trees 

 as in last month; cover up pears and apples with 

 straw or fern ; preserve a uniform temperature for 

 them, else they will shrivel up. 



Kitcheii Garden. — Take up asparagus, seakale, 

 and rhubarb for forcing in pots in the forcing-houses, 

 or to be put under hotbed frames, well lined, or cover 

 the crowns of seakale and rhubarb heavily with litter 

 where they stand ; late melon pits will answer for 

 this, if the plants be placed thickly together, and as 



* Gardeners' Chron., Oct. 19, 1844. 

 t Kitchen Garden. By Martin Doyle. 



