CARTER AND CO.’S GARDENER’S VADE-MECUM FOR 1862. 
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Peas may be sown twice this month — the first of early sorts, the eocond of second early sorts (vide the Kitchen part of the 
Catalogue, where all the best varieties will bo found in black type, and may bo safely taken as a guide) ; the early wrinkled 
varieties aro very superior, as also are Dickson's Favourite und Harrison’s Perfection : make a good sowing of Early 
long-poa Beans ; sow in frames, on a gentle bottom heat, Short French and Early Horn Carrot , also Wood’s Early Frame 
Radish lor succession : towards the end of the month make a sowing in shallow pans of Cauliflowers , Walchyren Broccoli, 
and Snow's Winter White Broccoli , also New Giant White Cos Lettuce and Celery ; plant out a good bed of Cabbages 
Irom tho ptoro beds, and also a bed of Red Dutch Cabbage; plant Potatoes in frames with the sets laid out last month 
to sprout, and lay out for sprouting as many sets as will bo required for planting early out of doors; they will bo ready 
lor uso a fortnight before those planted in the ordinary way : keep vacant plots of ground moved about in frosty weather. 
Fruit Garden. 
Proceed with the pruning, dressing, and nailing in of Wall-fruit trees of all sorts, leaving Peaches and Nectarines until 
the last; have the necessary means at hand to apply as protection to Apricots, Peaches, and Nectarines, as soon as the buds 
begin to swell out ; 1111 up, prune, and tic Raspberries, and give them a liboral dressing of rotten manure; prune Filberts when 
the female bloom shows ; afterwards manure and dig the ground, removing all suckers. 
Flower Garden. 
Preparations for summer display must have constant attention: sow some of tho most showy Hardy Annuals iu pots, 
and place them in a frame on gentle bottom heat ; these will flower very early : a few may also bo sown on a warm border, 
to transplant into tho flower borders when they are dug up next month : dress the beds or patches of Annuals which have 
been standing through the winter with soot and ashes to keep away snails ; make up a good dung bed early in the month, 
and commence striking the cuttings of bedding-plants as soon a9 they are ready. When the first-potted bedding-plants are 
well rooted, remove them to a cooler temperature and supply their places with freslily-pottcd ones from the stores ; bring 
forward the dry roots of choice Dahlias into heat, to furnish cuttings : the tall varieties of Lobelias should be put into heat ,* 
and when started into growth, part and pot them singly into four-inch pots, and harden off when well rooted ; shift Car- 
nations and Pico tees into their blooming-pots at the end of the month ; protect choice Tulips and Hyacinths ; fumigato 
Auriculas, and top-dress them ; let them have plenty of air and protection from frost and damp: commence the pruning 
of hardy Roses, also of climbing Roses on walls and trellises ; where crowded, remove exhausted wood and lay in youxljg stuff. 
Dress over Scillas and choice Crocus with soot and ashes; also lay traps for mice, which are very destructive to Crocus roots. 
Sow some pots or pans oi German Ten-week Stocks (vide page 4 in Catalogue) for early flowering, also a pan of Delphi- 
nium cliinense and formosum to flower late in the Autumn. Commence digging up tho borders in the rougher parts oi the 
Mixed-Flower Garden; and where the background is formed of shrubs, let them be thinned out, re-arranged, and blanks 
filled up as may bo found necessary ; some nice rotten-leaf mould pricked in amongst tho choicer sorts will bo very beneficial. 
Conservatory. 
Every exertion will bo necessary to keep up the interest and attraction of this structure, by a strict attention to neat- 
ness, and by a frequent re-arrangement of the plants to produce fresh combinations ; if tho borders arc getting hard 
and stale, let them be pricked over, and a little fresh compost added where needful. Clean the leaves of Camellias, Oranges, 
and other coriaceous-leaved plants, with a soft sponge, and syringe with tepid water occasionally before the blooms expand. 
Apply clear liquid-manure water to the roots once a week; forced plants of Camellias and Indian Azaleas must- be re- 
turned into heat to make their growth when their beauty is past. This house will require an occasional fumigation ; but it 
should bo a general rule to examine thoroughly all plants which are brought in from the other structures, and to smoke them 
well in a separate place if at all infested. Amateur Gardeners often do not attach sufficient importance to this simple ope- 
ration, and consequently do not always meet with the success their industry merits. The admirers of D ( utch Bulbs will now 
be able to appreciate their beauty and the gorgeous display they frequently produce. 
Foricng House. 
As the different varieties previously mentioned advance into bloom, let them be removed to the Conservatory, and another 
batcli of all the necessary sorts introduced from the reserve pits : do not forget to take them out of the forcing-house before the 
blooms expand ; they will then continue much longer and carry a finer colour. Such of the Amaryllids as are showing for bloom 
may be placed in this structiu*e, also some large plants of Salvia splendens, which will make a gorgeous show if all tho earliesb 
flowers are picked off and the back buds forced to start: introduce also some Azalea sinensis; they force well and are very 
fine. Pot plenty of Tuberose roots, and place them on a shelf near tho glass; and when well broken, thin out tho stems and 
tie up as they advance. 
Stove. 
As the most of these will now bo omerging from quiescence, both the temperature and the humidity of tho atmosphere 
may be gradually increased ; but do not raise too high ; at present a range of 50° to 00° is sufficient. Start a few more 
Achimenes, Gloxinias, and Gesneras, also the now Tydias from Ghent ; let water be very sparingly supplied until they have 
fairly started into growth : cuttings of such sorts as are required for keeping up the stock, but more particularly such as will 
be required for winter blooming, shoidd be got in immediately and placed in a frame on a dung bed with a brisk heat. 
Orchid House. 
The principal care here will be to avoid all unnecessary excitement ; a temperature ranging from G5° by day to 50° at night 
will be most suitable. Plants which arc making growth, as advised last month, must have tho best situations, where their 
wants can be duly attended to; water them when they require it, and, if possible, keep the atmosphere moister about them: 
the floors and walls may be sprinkled twice a day to keep up a fresh agreeable atmosphere ; but do not at present produce 
a moist atmosphere by evaporation from a heated surface ; hunt up and destroy insects. 
