THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



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These plants will succeed in almost any soil or situation. 

 All the kinds of mint, such as spear-mint, orange-mint, 

 pepper-mint, &c. may be increased by the above methods. 



SOWING CAPSICUMS. 



The seed-pods of these plants are much admired for pick- 

 ling ; let the seed be sown in a hot-bed, about the middle, or 

 towards the end of this month, and when the plants appear, 

 let them have a large portion of free air, and water them fre- 

 quently. In the middle or latter end of May, they will be fit 

 to transplant, which must be into beds of good earth in the 

 open ground ; or they may be sown in shallow boxes, pans, or 

 pots, and placed either in a cucumber-frame or in any of the 

 hot-houses. By sowing a few pots or pans full, a sufficient 

 quantity will be reared for an ordinary-sized family. 



SOWING LOVE-APPLES. 



About the middle or latter end of this month sow tomatoes, 

 or love-apple seeds : the fruit or apples of these plants are, in 

 some families, much used in soups, and also as a pickle. 



The fruit, when ripe, is of a beautiful red or yellow color. 

 The plants are tender, and the seed must be sown in a slight 

 hot-bed, treating the plants as directed above for capsicums. 

 For the further management of them, see Mai/» 



SOWING AND PLANTING VARIOUS KINDS OF POT AND MEDICAL 



HERBS. 



The seeds of dill, fennel, borage, burnet, bugloss, sorrel, 

 marigold, orach, clary, and all other herbs of the same kind, 

 may be sown any time this month, in a bed or border of com- 

 mon earth separately, and well raked in ; most of which may 

 remain where they are sown, if the plants be properly thinned ; 

 or some, as burnet, sorrel, fennel, clary, marigolds, borage, 

 may be planted out in beds a foot asunder, in May, June, and 

 July. 



