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cro]) 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, sea-kale, and aspa- 
ragus ; the two last, in drills, one foot apart, and one inch deep, for 
asparagus, and two inches for sea-kale ; another mode of raising 
sea-kale 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 patch ; tlie 
ground should be rich, well drained and deep. Beds may also be 
formed now by planting the small roots about the size of a pencil, 
which should be cut up into nine inch lengths. Those who purpose 
raising seedling rhubarb plants, should sow about the middle of the 
month, in shallow drills, eighteen inches apart, dropping the seeds 
in patches, six inches from each other. All the varieties of the 
gourd family may be sown in turf or brick pits. Potatoes not yet 
planted should be got in without delay, and towards the end of the 
month scarlet runners and French beans n>ay be sown ; the runners 
should have a warm, dry position until the first of May, when they 
may be sown in almost any soil or situation without risk ; but, like 
most other things, yield the best crops on ground well dug and 
manured. The main crop of carrots should be sown towards the 
end of the month, and there is still time for a crop of parsnips, 
if none have been sown yet, and as a small crop of so useful a vege- 
table is better than none at all, those who have delayed may still 
secure one. Slips of kitchen herbs may be put in any time this 
month, and will root quicker if planted in a rather dry sandy 
border. 
Fruit Garden. — Peaches, apricots, and nectarines should be 
carefully disbudded, and as soon as bloom is set, give the walls a 
shower from a garden-engine, to cleanse the trees and dislodge the 
pests that are ready to make havoc with the young fruit. Grafting 
may still be performed, but not a day should be lost. 
Flower Garden. — Seeds of hardy annuals and perennials are 
to be sown early, and towards the end of the month the more tender 
kinds may be safely committed to the ground ; but very small seeds 
of choice things had better not be sown till next month. Perennials 
may be planted out and old stools of phlox, chrysanthemum. Sweet 
"William, etc., may be parted. Dahlia roots may also be planted, 
and if the shoots appear before night-frosts are over, they may be 
protected by flower-pots inverted over them, and the holes stopped 
with pieces of tile. Where early beds of dahlias are required this 
plan may be adopted in the putting out of young plants, and if well 
hardened first, the beds may be filled about the middle of the month, 
and inverted pots, litter, or netting, used to protect them during 
fits of cold wind or frost. Box edgings should be clipped, and ivy 
may be cut in and trimmed, and fresh plantations made of last year’s 
roots. Cuttings of ivy may also be taken and planted in a sandy 
border, only partially exposed to the sun. The cuttings should be 
short-jointed, and trimmed of the lower leaves. Tigridia bulbs may 
be planted two inches deep. A light netting, or some similar pro- 
tection will be found useful now as a protection to tulip beds, and 
April. 
