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KITCHEN GARDESr, 



BASIL. 



Sow basil and other sweet herbs this month on rick 

 fight earth, well dug and raked ; sow pretty thick 

 either in small shallow drills or broad casts; the for- 

 £n?r method is preferable ; rake them in lightly ; they 

 laay be planted out in May or June. 



POTATOES. 



The beginning of this month is a good time to plan^j 

 a general crop of early potatoes, which, after being 

 Unished in the same style as directed last month, you 

 may also sow a crop of short top radishes over the 

 whole. They will be fit to pull by the time the pota- 

 toes need hoeing, which ought to be performed as soojj 

 as possible after they are come up. 



PEAS. 



Twice or three times this month sow peas as di- 

 rected in March, to keep up a succession of crops. 

 Earth up peas that have been sown previous to thie 

 time, as soon as they are two or three inches above 

 ground, and do this when the ground is dry. Stick 

 those that are five or six inches high. Marrow-fats 

 and other large peas will require sticks six or eight 

 feet high ; l)ut sticks five feet high are sufficient for 

 the smaller kind. Spanish morottos, dwarf green im- ' 

 perial Prussians, green and white marrow-fats and 

 other large peas, are the kinds to sow this month, and 

 must be in rows four or five feet apart. 



BUSH AND LIMA BEANS. 



About the last of this month, you may plant a few 

 ©f the liver-coloured or Quaker beans, on a dry soil 

 and sheltered situation, in drills two feet apart, an 

 inch deep, and about two inches asunder in the drills ; 

 a few h'Ms also of the Lima or any other running bean 

 maybe planted, though I would advise to defer pl?tat- 



