THE PRACTICAL »:JARDENER. 



[May. 



SOWING CELERY. 



Sow celery-seed for a principal latter crop, in the first oi 

 second week of the month. Dig a bed of light rich earth, 

 and make the surface perfectly even ; then sow the seeds pretty 

 thick, and rake them in lightly. 



In hot sunny weather it would prove very beneficial to shade 

 the bed every day, from ten to three o'clock, till the plants 

 appear. Likewise, let the bed, in di'y weather, be refreshed 

 every other evening with a light watering. 



The plants from this sowing will be fit to plant out into 

 trenches in July, August, and September, and to take up for 

 the table from October till Christmas, and for a spring supply. 



HOEING AND EARTHING UP POTATOES. 



The crops of potatoes, as they advance, should be hoed 

 and earthed up. If there be any vacant piece of ground, a 

 late crop may be planted, which will succeed nearly as well, as 

 if planted in April, but will not keep so well dui'ing the winter. 



SPINACH. 



Spinach may still be sown, where required in continued 

 succession, sowing generally the round-leaved sort between 

 rows of peas, by which it will be partially shaded fi'om the sun, 

 and not run to seed so soon as if sown in an exposed situation. 



In some families, spinach is required in succession all sum- 

 mer : in which case, some seed should be sown every twelve 

 or fourteen days, as the plants of the summer sowings soon 

 run up to seed: sow the seed moderately thin, and rake it 

 well into the ground; or sow it in shallow flat drills, from 

 six or eight inches to a foot asunder, covering in the seed 

 regularly. 



Thin the young spinach of last month's sowing eradicate 

 all weeds : and where the plants stand thick, thin them mode- 

 rately, especially those produced from the broad-cast sowing. 



