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beans, spinach, parsnips, carrots, beets, onions, tur- 
nips, parsley, &c. 
Early Potatoes should be planted as soon as the 
ground can be properly pulverized or plowed. Be- 
fore planting, the tubers should be cut into sets, 
rolled in dry ashes, plaster, or lime, and kept in a 
moderately warm, light place a few weeks. The 
ground in which they are to be planted should be 
liberally supplied with fine stable or horse manure, 
and thrown into beds or drills exposed to the morn- 
ing and mid-day sun. 
Sweet Potatoes may be planted this month in a 
hot bed, or some other warm place, where, in two 
or three weeks, they will throw out a number of 
runners, or sprouts, which, as soon as they reach a 
height of three or four inches above the surface, 
should be taken off, transplanted into hills four or 
five feet apart, in open ground, where the soil is 
light, rich, and finely prepared. In the course of 
the season, they may be hoed, earthed up, or 
treated in other respects like the common potato. 
Fruit Garden and Orchard. — As soon as the 
ground is open and sufficiently dried, all kinds of 
fruit trees may be planted ; also cuttings of grape- 
vines, gooseberries, currants, raspberries, &c. If 
not done before, strawberry beds should now be 
uncovered, hoed, and cleaned. Fork up the earth 
around grape vines and fruit trees, and apply lime, 
leaf mold, ashes, manure, &c. In selecting all 
kinds of trees, whether for the purposes of orna- 
ment or fruit, be careful that you obtain none but 
the best, and see that they are properly planted, or 
set out. The holes should be dug of sufficient 
width to admit the roots without being doubled, or 
bent j and the ground should be trenched two 
spades deep, the lowermost of which should be 
cast away, and its space supplied with turf, leaf- 
mold, or peat, newly-slacked lime, wood ashes, or 
well-decomposed stable manure. Each tree should 
be planted at about the same depth as it originally 
grew in the nursery. Care should also be ob- 
served to surround the roots with the finest part of 
the mold that is taken from the pit. Water should 
likewise be liberally supplied as the earth is filled 
in, which should be firmly trodden down about the 
roots. If the planting be followed by dry weather, 
the trees must continue to be watered till their 
roots have taken effect. 
Flower Garden and Pleasure Grounds. — As soon 
as the bulbs of plants begin to break ground, take 
off the litter ; also uncover tender shrubs and 
flower borders. 
WORK FOR MARCH, SOUTH. 
Tobacco. — In the early part of this month, if the 
season has not required it before, select the ground 
for your tobacco crop. It should be a rich, sandy 
loam, capable of retaining moisture, and the more 
level the better. Plow or dig up the surface at 
least twice before planting, and level well each 
time. As soon as the young plants acquire a leaf 
the size of a dollar, take advantage of the first wet 
or cloudy day and commence setting them out in 
rows about three feet apart from north to south, 
and two and a half feet apart from east to west. In 
taking the plants up from the seed bed, the ground 
should be first loosened with a flat piece of wood 
or iron, (a caseknife will do,) about an inch broad ; 
then carefully holding the leaves closed in the hand, 
draw them up, and place them in a basket to receive 
them for planting. The evening is the best time 
for setting out plants, but it can also be done in the 
morning. Those set out in the morning, unless it 
be cloudy or rainy, should be covered during the 
day with palmetto leaves or other substances. 
Water the plants morning and evening until they 
have taken root. Fill up all vacancies where the 
plants die, with new ones. 
Cotton. — The first fine weather after the twen- 
tieth of this month, commence planting your cotton 
seed. Put in one half of your crop ten days be- 
fore the remainder, in order that you will not be 
too much driven in your harvest. Moisten your 
seed, and roll it with ashes and earth, and it will vege- 
tate earlier, and will require a less quantity per acre. 
Lou-land Rice. — After your ground is well plowed 
and prepared by dikes and ditches for inundation, 
sow your lowland rice, broadcast, at the rate of two 
bushels to two bushels and a half to an acre, and 
cover it with a light harrow having many teeth. 
Indian Corn. — Plant Indian corn if it was not 
done last month. Harrow and weed it, as soon as 
it is large enough. 
Millet. — Sow millet about the twentieth of this 
month ; manure the ground well, and you will be 
repaid for the labor. 
Sweet Potatoes. — Bed out sweet potatoes as early 
as the season will permit. Place them on the level 
of the ground, previously dug up and raked even, 
as near as you can without touching ; then cover 
them three or four inches, out of a trench dug all 
around the bed. This trench will keep the super- 
abundance of water drained off, and therefore, the 
bed warmer. A bed 40 feet long and five wide 
will plant 15 or 20 bushels of potatoes. When 
there is no danger of frost, scrape off part of the 
covering ; and thus enable them to vegetate earlier. 
Give the ground a liberal coat of manure. 
Management of Stock, fyc- — The remarks on this 
head for the north and west will generally apply 
to the south. 
Sugar Cane. — Attend to your sugar cane, hoe, 
and keep it clear of weeds. 
Kitchen Garden. — Plant southern and northern 
turnips, garlic, eggplant, celery, parsley, spinach, 
cress, leeks, roquet, sorrel, radishes, (long atid 
round,) okra, early and dwarf beans, tomatoes, car- 
rots, Leets, endive, cabbages, lettuce, muskmelons, 
watermelons, cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, peas, 
mustard, and artichokes. Tomatoes, peppers, egg 
plants, &c, may be transplanted in open ground 
toward the end of the month. Hoe the cabbages 
and lettuces which were sown in January and Feb- 
ruary, every ten days. 
Fruit Garden, Shrubbery, fyc. — Prune orange 
and lemon trees ; also other delicate ornamental 
evergreen shrubs. 
Important Fact in Planting Orchards. — It is 
an indisputable fact, that an orchard planted in the 
quincunx form will contain one eighth more trees 
than one planted in the common way. the distance 
of the trees apart in both cases being the same. 
See p. 331, of our sixth volume 
