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end of the month, to make a general clearance, and re- 
arrange the whole stock. 
April. 
“ O, how this spring of love resemhleth 
The uncertain glory of an April clay ; 
Which now shews all the beauty of the sun, 
And by and by a cloud takes all away ! ,J 
The month of April is one which tests severely the capa- 
bilities of the gardener, as well as his ways and means. The 
weather may be summer one day, and winter the next ; and 
inexperienced hands may easily be led astray by the tempta- 
tions of warm shoivers and sunshine, to regret, afterwards, 
the havoc caused by sudden frosts, storms, and even snow. and 
hail. In the general work of the garden, many of the direc- 
tions — especially as to sowing — given last month, apply to 
this, and more particularly to those who live in exposed dis- 
tricts. 
Successional sowings may be made of all leading vegetable 
crops, and where the work of the last month has been delayed, 
seeds got in early will not be much behind those sown last 
month. Sow Windsor, longpod, and Johnson’s Wonderful 
beans; marrow, Auvergne, and dwarf mammoth peas, and a 
few rows of the earlier sorts to come in before the late peas 
are ready. In small gardens the dwarf kinds are always to 
be preferred. Sowings should be made of horn carrot, savoy, 
Brussels sprouts, Scotch kale, broccoli, cauliflowers, and 
cabbages, for autumn use, a succession of such things being 
preferable to a glut all at once for a private grower. Among 
cabbages, Atkins’s Matchless, Shilling’s Queen, Early. York, 
and West Ham are good sorts to sow now, but the main crop 
of cabbages should "be up by this time, and must be hoed 
between when the ground is in a fit state. Beet should be 
sown in the second week, in ground deeply dug, but not 
manured ; the main crop of celery should be sown on a rich 
warm border, the surface to be made light and fine ; sow thin, 
and merely dust the seed over. Sow also onions, lettuce, 
radish, small salad, seakale, and asparagus— the two last in 
drills, one foot apart, and one inch deep for asparagus, and 
two inches for seakale. Another mode of raising seakale 
plants is to sow in four-feet beds, the seed to be in patches of 
eight inches diameter, and two feet apart, and about eight 
seeds in each, the plants to be thinned to three plants in each 
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