THE 



GENTLEMAN & GARDENER s 



KALEJS'DAR. 



KITCHEN GARDEN. 



If part of your garden is new ground, or has not 

 been lately cultivated, it is necessary early this month, 

 (the weather being moist) to plough or dig the ground, 

 being careful to bury the sod, that the grass may rot, 

 and the roots perish by ensuing frosts. This ground 

 will answer in the course of the year to receive the 

 generality of vegetables. 



It would be better had it been ploughed or dug 

 deep last fall. 



Clayey ground may be improved with coal ashes, 

 ar rubbish of lime and bricks, riddled free from 

 lumps ; or even sand will loosen and improve such 

 ground. Sandy soils may be imr)roved with the slime, 

 and mud of swamps and creeks, and both kinds of 

 ground enriched with dung. To produce early crops 

 of vegetables it is necessary to provide dung for the 

 formation of hot-beds, to raise such tender pl^.nts as 

 cannot be raised in open ground early in the year. 



FORMATION OF HOT-BEDS. 



Take fresh horse-dung with plenty of long litter in 

 it ; shake the dung well and place it on a piece of ground 

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