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THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 
" Narcissus. — Shade the best of (lie plants, 
and protect and water them, if necessary. 
Treat them the same as Hyacinths, as far as 
regards reniQving them. 
Pansies. — Top dress the beds with leaf 
mould, or very much reduced manure ; plant out 
the rooted cuttings, to make new beds; and con- 
tinue to put in other cuttings for a succession. 
These always flower best when the plants are 
young ; and this mode of propagating is gene- 
rally better than dividing and replanting 
them. Look out for a few pods of seed from 
the best of the flowers, properly impregnated. 
Pelargoniums for beds and borders, includ- 
ing the various scarlet, variegated, ivy-leaved, 
and other varieties, should be hardened off and 
prepared for planting out, as soon as the season 
will permit. 
Petunias- — These may be got together 
under temporary frames or shelter, as a final 
move preparatory to planting them out in the 
beds, which may be done as soon as the season 
will permit. Continue to propagate for later 
flowering, if more plants are wanted. 
Picotees require the same kind of manage- 
ment as Carnations. 
Pinks. — The plants (last year's pipings) 
should have all the flower stems removed but 
the strongest, and the buds reduced to about 
two on each stem. Give the beds a top-dress- 
ing of leaf mould or decayed manure ; and if 
not already done, let the plants have plenty of 
water, if the weather proves to be dry. 
Pol/juntkuses.—When the plants have done 
flowering in pots, plant them out into rich 
loamy soil, where -they are a little shaded 
during the middle of the day ; watch carefully 
against slugs and snails. 
Primroses (double) should be planted out 
of the pots in which they have bloomed, into 
borders of rich loamy soil, in a cool place, 
where the sun does not shine on them during 
the middle part of the day. 
Protection. — Protect any plants fresh put 
out that may be a little tender,, by inverting a 
flower-pot, or a close basket, or anything, in 
fact, that may be at hand, over them at night, 
removing it in the morning, after the frost has 
passed away. A very slight protection often 
effects a vast benefit at this juncture. 
Ranunculuses. — Shade and water those in 
flower, or approaching that condition. 
Hock-work. — Plants on rock-work require 
care in renewing the soil and making it firm 
about the roots of the plants ; thinning them 
out where they are growing too thick ; and 
clearing them, both from seedling weeds and 
self-sown flowering plants. Fresh plants may 
be introduced in the early part of the month. 
Salvias must be prepared for planting out, 
but they are more tender than many other 
plants of this class. 
Tulips. — Protect these both night and day; 
this may be done by roofing over the beds and 
covering them with thin canvass, or by having 
a more perfect stage, sufficiently large to walk 
under, with canvass roof, and side blinds ; do 
not, however, cover them up too closely. 
When the bloom fades, all this covering must 
be removed. Except -in the very few flowers 
from which seed is required, break off the seed 
pods at the top of the stalks, as soon as the 
petals have fallen. 
Verbenas. — Place these under temporary 
shelter, previously to finally exposing them. 
Continue to propagate, if required. 
Wall-flowers. — Get in early more cuttings 
of the double varieties, to secure suecessional 
plants. 
Water the plants generally, especially newly 
planted ones, if the weather should prove dry 
and hot : apply it at those periods when the 
atmosphere is dull and moist. 
the kitciien-gakben:. 
The chief thing to be attended to here, is 
to have the ground well prepared for the 
crops ; considerable skill and forethought is 
required to avoid two crops of the same kind, 
or even of the same tribe, following each other 
successively ; and a regular rotation, if prac- 
ticable, should be attended to. Trenching, 
deep digging, and keeping the crops already 
planted, clean and healthful, by a frequent 
stirring of the soil ; and pricking out nearly 
all sorts of plants, so as to forward them, that 
they may be ready for lifting with a good ball, 
into the places intended for their reception, 
are the chief things to be done. 
Artichokes, both Globe and Jerusalem, can 
still be planted, as directed last month. 
Asparagus. — See that the cutting of this 
vegetable is not overdone, particularly in the 
young plantations ; the demand will be limited 
as soon as peas are gathered-: it is entirely 
unnecessary to use any means of blanching it, 
as when green it is much preferable ; strict 
attention is now requisite to keep it free from 
weeds, by hand weeding or very careful hoeing; 
and the present is a good time to saturate the 
beds with guano, or sheep's dung, &c, in the 
form of a clear liquid. 
Beans. — Attend to topping them when they 
have set a sufficient quantity of pods : make 
another planting for a late crop. Hoeing and 
earthing up will be found beneficial. 
Beet. — A small sowing may still be made ; 
the main crops should be thinned to about six 
or eight inches apart ; when they have made 
three or four leaves, they will require to be 
again looked over. 
Brocoli. — Main sowings can be put in, as 
before recommended ; and have them all dis- 
tinctly named and dated : this should also be 
