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KITCHEN GARDEN. 
flowers, may yet be planted or removed, 
although fully late. 
Pansies in pots require to have frame pro- 
tection, or to be plunged. 
Pinks and Heartsease in beds may be 
preserved in case of hard frost, by covering 
with litter of any kind rather loosely, but not 
enough to deprive them of light and air. 
Plants generally, bound up for protection, 
should be examined occasionally, and in mild 
dry weather should be opened, and somewhat 
exposed during part of the day. 
Plants of all kinds under glass, or in pits 
for protection, require plenty of air whenever 
the weather will permit, and little or no 
water. 
Pots of cuttings and pans of seedlings, to 
turn out in the spring, must be kept dry, 
and the drainage attended to. 
Ranunculus-beds. — Throw out the soil in 
a ridge on each side, if not done in the autumn, 
one foot deep at least. 
Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Andromedas, and 
other fine fibrous rooted shrubs may be re- 
moved or planted. 
Shrubberies maybe dug or forked to loosen 
the soil, and when the distance between the 
shrubs is sufficiently great, even trenching is 
desirable. 
Soils. — Collect during frosty weather all 
kinds of soils and manures that are wanted — 
neats' dung, turfs to rot into turfy loam, sand, 
clean loam, peat, horse and sheep droppings, 
leaves to rot, &c, if not done already. 
Stocks, Mignonette, cuttings of plants, 
in store pots, autumn-sown annuals, and all 
plants intended for bedding out in spring, 
must be well attended to, and the drainage of 
the pots frequently examined. 
Tulips. — Protect any that are choice, by a 
covering of some kind, as the slightest frost 
that reaches the bulb or young spike, damages 
the bloom — with border flowers, this is of 
little or no consequence. 
Turf and Lawns generally. — Turf may be 
laid down in good weather as well this month 
as any other, and is one of the most beautiful 
features in a well kept and well laid out 
garden. 
All vacant spaces should be dug and left in 
ridges, especially ground intended for Dahlias, 
and for the usual bedding out plants. Pro- 
tection should be given to half-hardy and 
tender plants generally. 
KITCHEN GAKDEN. 
Asparagus may'be forced in a common hot- 
bed, and produced in a short time. This is 
done by placing old roots close to each other all 
over a hot-bed, such as is made up for Cucum- 
bers, with three inches of soil under them ; and 
covering them with three inches of mould, and 
then with three inches more, they will come up 
very soon and very thickly. 
Beans may be planted, or rather sown, in 
rows, two feet asunder, and three or four 
inches apart in the row. 
Cabbages. — Plant out for cabbaging, a foot 
or eighteen inches apart. Sow seed in a warm, 
sheltered spot. 
Carrots. — Sow on a warm border a few 
for an early crop. 
Cauliflowers, in frames, or otherwise pro- 
tected, should be kept clear of dead leaves, 
have air every opportunity, and be watered 
but seldom. Sow some seed in a frame, or 
under hand-glasses. 
Celery should be earthed up, and in very 
hard frosts be protectedjvith litter. 
Cleanliness in the paths and beds must 
be attended to, and dung should be removed 
and spread in frosty weather, ready to dig or 
trench into the ground. 
Cucumber and Melon frames. — Where Cu- 
cumbers were sown in autumn, the plants will 
now be nearly or quite in a bearing state ; keep 
the temperature by linings of hot dung, or by 
fire -heat to about a mean of 70 degrees : give a 
little air every day, to let off the steam ; cover 
it up well at night. To prevent confusion of 
the branches, let every shoot that shows fruit be 
stopped, (that is, have the top pinched out) 
an inch or so above the joint where the fruit 
shows ; and those that do not show should be 
stopped beyond every leaf until they do. Sow 
seeds on a well-prepared hot -bed, for a supply 
of young plants to put out next month ; the 
temperature of this seed-bed should be very 
even and regular, at about seventy degrees, 
or the young plants will suffer from the 
changes ; when the young plants have fully 
expanded the seed lobes, take them up care- 
fully, and pot them very lightly in small pots 
of warmed very light vegetable earth, filling 
the pots about half full, and keeping them 
plunged to the rim in some light material, 
which will elevate them near the glass. As 
they gain strength, add soil to fill the pot to 
within half an inch or so of the rim ; this will 
greatly invigorate them. Whenever they re- 
quire water, let it be given them warm; that 
is, of a temperature at least as warm as that 
of the atmosphere they are growing in, or 
it may be three or four degrees warmer. 
As to air, a little should be admitted every 
day if the weather permit ; a small crack, by 
elevating the sash perhaps half an inch at the 
back, is all that it would be safe to allow them, 
but this little must be thought of to allow the 
confined steam to escape. Be cautious of the 
covering hanging over the sides, and drawing 
the steam from the outer linings into the frames 
during the night, which would destroy the 
plants. One advantage of admitting air is, 
