The Home Garden 



there than in a warmer place. The aim is to 

 give them a good start-off without forcing 

 them. A forced growth is always an unhealthy 

 one, remember. In too hot a room they grow 

 up weak and spindling, and are generally so 

 lacking in vital force that plants grown from 

 seed sown in the open ground a month or six 

 weeks later are almost sure to get ahead of 

 them before they have recovered from the 

 check of transplanting. 



It is a most excellent plan to put these plants 

 out of doors on warm, sunshiny days, for two 

 or three hours during the middle of the day, 

 if they can be given a place sheltered from the 

 wind. Be sure to bring them in before the 

 temperature begins to fall, as it will about 

 three o'clock, or perhaps earlier. 



Cabbages which have been wintered in pits 

 can be taken out now, their outside leaves cut 

 away, and the heads stored in the cellar for 

 immediate use. It is not safe to leave them 

 where the water from the upper soil will get 

 to them. 



APRIL 



If currants and gooseberries were not 

 trimmed in fall, go over the bushes now and 



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