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FANCY TRELLISES FOR CLIMBERS. 
Carrots and Parsnips may be sown for a 
main crop ; so also may Beet-Root. "Whyte's 
new sort of beet is considered the best colour 
and flavour, of the recently introduced kinds. 
Parsnips may be sown, as well as beet-root, 
in a small bed to plant out from, if there be 
any scarcity of room ; but the carrot should 
be sown broad-cast, or in drills, where they 
are to remain ; there to be thinned with the 
hoe to four inches apart, or six inches in rich 
ground. 
Garlick and Challots. — Buy or procure 
the small offsets which are not large enough 
for use, and plant them six inches apart, in 
rows a foot apart ; but the .proper way is, at 
digging-up time to sort them, keeping out the 
largest, and replanting the others at the same 
time, the ground being merely dug and dunged. 
The depth at which these roots are generally 
planted is two to three inches below the 
crowns. It must be understood that autumn 
planting for bulbs which we desire to propa- 
gate or grow well, should always be preferred; 
but if not done in autumn, better late than 
never. 
Kale and "Winter Greens. — Sow this 
month all or any of the kinds which go under 
the various names of Brown Kale, Green 
Kale, Variegated Kale, (this, by-the-by, is in 
our estimation the best of all,) Brocoli, Ragged 
Jack, Scotch Kale., &c. Sow in patches, in 
small beds, for planting out. 
Savoys. — Perhaps the best of all the winter 
cabbages may be picked out from the seed- 
bed into nursery-beds, pretty close together, 
merely to grow into strength for planting out 
hereafter. 
Brussels Sprouts, a delicious and highly 
patronized, as well as handsome vegetable, 
should be sown this month ; and it should be 
bought where the seedsman will warrant it 
imported seed, for the continental people take 
infinitely more pains with seed than we do in 
England, even the best of us. Besides, gar- 
deners may be defeated in saving any seed of 
the cabbage tribe, by a neighbour who allowed 
any other kind to flower in his garden. 
Onions. — Sow more if you require quan- 
tity and succession, or as a precaution; for it 
will frequently happen, that in particular sea- 
sons the April sown crop will beat the earlier. 
Thin those of last month's sowing, and weed 
them at the same time ; there is nothing like 
plenty of room, if the ground be rich ; and 
indeed, if it be the only piece of ground that 
can be dunged when the onions are sown, it 
is the most requisite. "Well decomposed night 
soil, or pig's manure, will not be found too 
strong for this crop. 
Cabbages. — Plant out from the seed-bed 
into vacant spaces not better employed, or at 
all events put out a few for succession and 
continuous supply. This is one of the most 
useful of all vegetables, except the potato. 
fruit gakden. 
Examine grafted trees to see that the 
clay is sound, and if not take it off, and put 
fresh on ; rub off any buds that the stock is 
throwing out, that the strength may go to 
the graft. If there be any necessity for graft- 
ing still, though it is much too late, select 
such scions as have not started into growth, 
and not bearing wood ; but they make less 
growth than if done earlier. 
"Wall Trees should be well attended to ; 
all branches coming where they are not 
wanted, such as in front of the tree, so as to 
grow outwards, or elsewhere, when too thick, 
may be rubbed off, before they assist in ex- 
hausting the tree; because all useless branches 
allowed to grow, only take away strength 
that would be otherwise better distributed 
among the useful portion of the tree. 
Pruning. — All pruning should have been 
done long since; and the only thing that can be 
done now, is to repair all errors and omissions 
in the best way you can. Gooseberries and 
currant bushes may yet be thinned out, and 
the cuttings stuck in the ground. 
Raspberry, Canes, Vines, and all other 
subjects neglected up to this time, must never- 
theless be so far attended to as their forward- 
ness will allow. 
Cleanse all walls of insects, examine every 
hole for the enemy, and remember that every 
wasp killed now will save you from a swarm. 
Syringing wall-trees is a good and effectual 
mode of thinning the ranks of tormentors. 
Strawberry Beds.— Remove the runners, 
if they are not wanted for plants ; it will 
strengthen the bloom and fruit. 
Planting. — If any planting remains to be 
done, lose not an instant. 
FANCY TRELLISES FOR CLIMBERS. 
If plants must be supported, some regard 
should be had to their form and fashion. It 
must be allowed that the more natural a plant 
looks the better it is ; and of all the notions 
that could be formed those which have been 
put in practice are the worst. Almost every 
geometrical figure has been employed in the 
construction of wire frames. Shields of all 
shapes, round, square, diamond, and oval, of 
all sizes, have been stuck into or on pots, 
and well-grown plants have covered them. 
All the fanciful devices that art could suggest, 
and that was unnatural to vegetation, were 
constantly adopted, and formed a variety of 
very extraordinary objects. It may be asked, 
what form could be adopted that would be 
considered natural ? and it is not very easily 
