312 THE KITCHEN GARDEN. [April. 
Propagation of Exotic Trees, Shrubs and Plants. 
This is a very proper time to sow such seeds of rare plants as you 
are able to procure^ those that are in good condition, and whose 
nature it is to vegetate the first season, will rise freely, but many 
kinds will not grow for three, four, five, or six months after sow- 
ing, and others not for a yearj therefore, it will be necessary to 
have patience, and to take care all the time of the whole, as well 
the pots in which the plants do not rise, as those that do; if you 
have room to plunge them into the bark pit, or into hot-beds at 
work, or made for the purpose, it will greatly facilitate their 
growth. 
You may now propagate many kinds by suckers, cuttings, and 
layers, which should be duly attended to, particularly such as are 
scarce and difficult to be obtained. 
Raising early Flowers, Fruits, Sec. in the Hot-House. 
Pots of any desirable flowering plants may still be introduced to 
forward an early bloom, such as pinks, fuschias, hydrangeas, roses, 
carnations, and many others. See February, &c. 
Also pots of strawberries and vines, as in the two former months, 
to continue the supply of early fruit. 
Likewise, a few more kidney- beans, &c. See last month and 
January. 
In hot-houses where vines are trained in from plants growing on 
the outside, and conducted up under the glasses, &c., they will, 
towards the end of this month, or earlier, according to the degree 
of heat kept up, be well advanced in young shoots, having fruit, 
which shoots should be carefully trained along in regular order, 
and all the improper and superfluous growths cut away. 
THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Previous to entering upon the work of the kitchen garden, &c. 
for this month, it will be proper to observe that a great portion of 
the open ground culture and sowing necessary to be done in some 
places in April, have been fully treated of in March, in order to 
accommodate those citizens of the middle states, whose gardens, 
from the nature of soil and situation, admit of early sowing, as well 
