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plant with the other to within six inches of the top. 

 Fill up occasionally as the plant grows, and it will be 

 ready in about six weeks. 



Orchard, — Where practicable, the transplanting of 

 young fruit trees should now be proceeded with, 

 and, if done with care, they will soon make a little 

 new growth, emit roots, and be established in their 

 positions before the final fall of the leaf. A full season 

 will often be saved by this, and the risk of loss by a 

 dry spring considerably reduced. This applies to nearly 

 all fruit trees, but especially to the evergreens, such 

 as lemons, oranges, dates, loquats, olives, tamarinds, 

 bananas, &c. 



Farm. — Sow vetches, lucerne, wheat, barley, oats, 

 and maize. Gather sorghum seed as it ripens, or the 

 birds will either consume or scatter it. Cotton will 

 require constant attention as directed last month. Cut 

 and house tobacco as it arrives at maturity. 



MAY. 



Kitchen Garden. — Transplant onions, and keep the 

 seed beds clean. Plant out cabbages, &c, for succes- 

 sion ; and sow lettuce, endive, leek, onion, peas, radish, 

 mustard, and cress. Dig beds intended for asparagus. 

 (See Asparagus). Transplant garlic, eschallots, rhubarb, 

 salsafy, scorzonera, &c. 



Orchard. — Transplant fruit trees in the manner 

 directed in the article on the apple, which see. Do 

 not plant too deep ; put fine mould among the roots, 

 aud protect the trees until they start afresh, watering 

 overhead lightly every two or three days, to prevent 

 too much evaporation, until the roots begin to act. 

 Transplant strawberries into leaf mould, or two-year- 

 old cow dung i when growing give abundance of water. 

 In cold situations, protect tropical fruit trees, cover 

 bunches of bananas, and throw a handful of straw into 

 the heart of every pine-apple plant, 



