MAY. 



g^round ; they will produce better crops for doing it. 

 The larger kinds of peas require sticks about seven 

 feet high, the smaller kinds about five or six feet, ac- 

 cording to the height the}^ grow; the sticks should 

 have twigs from tiieir sides, extending lengthways 

 along the rows for the tendrils to catch hold of. The 

 sticks should also be placed on the southern and east- 

 ern sides of the plants, because they incline that way 

 to the sun. Your earliest crops will now be ready 

 for gathering. 



RADISHES, 



Continue to sow salmon, short-top, and turnip -root- 

 ed radishes (twice or thrice this month) water all your 

 radishes in dry weather, and keep them well weeded. 

 See directions for sowing in former months. 



In wet weather transplant radishes for seed ; choose 

 long straight roots with short tops, the roots of a pale 

 red colour ; dibble them in two or three feet asunder; 

 if the weather is not w^et, water them well. 



POT HERBS, i^c. 



You may sow coriander, chervil, thyme, savory, 

 marjoram and other pot herbs this month, as directed 

 in former months, and water them frequently. 



CELERY. 



Prick out celery from your seed beds into a nur 

 sery bed of rich light earth, the rows about six inches 

 asunder, and the plants about three inches apart : 

 water them frequently; a situation shaded from the 

 sun is the best. 



Sow a plentiful crop of celery in rich light earth, 

 well dug; and levelled; sow the seeds tolerably thick 

 and rake ihexa in. In hot weather shelter them from 

 the sun in the middle of ihe day till the plants come 

 up and in dry weather water tbem three or four 

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