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method, which are very numerous, will strike root freely; and, 
indeed there are very few sorts but may be cultivated in this way, 
if covered close for some time with bell-glasses, to preserve a moist 
atmosphere around them till they establish themselves in the earth, 
and are able to draw therefrom a sufficient supply of juices to 
replace those which might be exhaled by the open dry air. 
You may, in like manner, strike cuttings of many sorts of green- 
house plants, and of any curious and valuable shrubs of the open 
ground departments. 
Sow seeds of all hot-house plants that you are able to procure 
and wish to cultivate; let them be sown in pots, and if room can 
be had plunge these in the bark-bed, give them occasional water- 
ing, and you may expect many kinds to come up shortly, and 
several others not for months. The laying of panes of glass over 
these pots will facilitate the growth of the seeds by opposing the 
ascending moisture, and retaining it about the surface of the earth; 
but bell-glasses would more eflfectually answer this end. 
Care of several Fruiting, Flowering, and Esculent Plants in the 
Stove. 
Pay due attention to the regular watering of the strawberries, 
kidney-beans, cucumbers, and flowers now forcing in the stove, 
and early in the month introduce others to succeed them. 
Continue to keep the grape-vines now fruiting free from all 
unnecessary shoots, and such as are produced from the axillas of 
the leaves, &c., and train the others close and regular. 
WORK TO BE DONE IN THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Early Melons and Cucumbers. 
The eariy melons will now show fruit abundantly; they must 
have plenty of air, and protection from the mid-day sun; for a few 
hours sunshine at this season, if the glasses were close shut, would 
destroy the whole crop. The lights should be taken off', and the 
plants fully exposed to the open air, about the twentieth or towards 
the end of the month; therefore the plants ought to be previously 
and gradually inured thereto. Should the beds happen to be greatly 
declined in heat about the first of this month, a fresh lining of hot 
