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three feet wide, clown the centre of the bed, 
the patches of three being three feet apart. 
The plants have to be topped when they have 
four rough leaves. Some prepare the bed, and 
sow four or five seeds in the place they are 'to 
grow, leaving the best three standing, and 
taking the others away. Here they grow as 
they like, except that when they throw out 
their shoots, they must be regulated about the 
bed, and pegged down, that the wind may not 
blow them about. 
Cucumbers on ridges. — This is simply 
growing cucumbers out of doors, and may be 
managed with or without dung. In the one 
case, they are planted out the middle or even 
the beginning of the month, under hand- 
glasses, as forward as they can be grown well in 
pots, and only require the hand-glasses until 
the end of the month ; by which time they 
will more than fill the glasses. Some growers, 
however, prop them up, and allow the shoots 
to grow out beyond them. When they are 
grown with hot dung, the space of three feet 
is dug out a foot deep, and the dung put in 
and pressed pretty close, but piled up a foot 
above the surface, and sloped down to the 
surface in front ; the soil dug out is then put 
on six inches thick all over, and what is over 
is used behind, as a bank to the dung that is 
above ground. This forms a slope down to 
nothing, as it were, and a foot from the back 
of the dung the plants are put in and covered 
with a glass. The heat assists greatly in the 
early part of the month, and keeps the fruit 
forward, and in quicker growth, which is 
always desirable, and which, in fact, makes all 
the difference between frame and field cucum- 
bers ; those grown thus being intermediate. 
Tomatas, Capsicums, Chilies, &c. 
should be planted out this month, about the 
middle or end, against a south wall, if you 
can ; they will do well between the trees on a 
fruit wall. Turn the balls out of the pots 
whole, without disturbing the fibres, and 
water them well in, to settle the earth about 
the roots. The tomatas should be nailed to 
the wall with webbing or shreds of cloth, the 
same as you would a fruit tree. Chilies and 
capsicums should, however, be also grown in 
pots, to make sure of some, be the season 
Avhat it may. 
Vegetable Marrows should be turned 
out in warm borders. They are grown in great 
variety; and the great object is to cut them at 
a proper time : this ought to be before they 
form their seeds. In short, they can hardly 
be cut too young. There is hardly anything 
which runs into so many varieties ; and as to 
their value as vegetables, we believe they are 
more for appearance and novelty than for 
their flavour. Pumpkins, which are rather 
grown for their enormous size, as curiosities, 
than any thing else, should be planted out 
about the middle of the month ; and, if not 
sown yet, may be sown in peat, one in a pot of 
the sixty size, and kept in a hot-bed until the 
planting-out time. The ground can hardly be 
too rich for them, nor be in too warm a situa- 
tion. Only one fruit must be allowed to 
perfect itself on a plant : but, to select the 
best, let three or four get as large as a cricket- 
ball before you make up your mind ; then the 
most handsome and free-growing one may be 
retained, and the rest pulled off ; and all that 
may afterwards come must be removed as 
soon as they show themselves. 
Celery. — Plant out a few trenches, dig 
them a foot deep, and fork in a good quantity 
of very rotten dung at the bottom ; in this 
place your plants, which should be cleared of 
any side branches or shoots that may be 
starting. Prick out from the seed-beds, or 
seed- pans, all the seedlings as soon as they 
are large enough to handle ; let the bed pre- 
pared for them be rich with well-rotted dung, 
and put them in about three inches apart, 
there to grow into strength ready for planting 
out in their season. As those which are in 
trenches grow, the earth must be drawn down 
into the trenches, and close to the stems, which 
must be closed always, that the earth may not 
get into the hearts of them. When they get 
larger it is sometimes necessary to tie them 
with a bit of matting half way up, and when 
earthed up, to cut the bast matting and free 
them. This, however, is only done when it 
is grown for exhibition. 
Endive. — Sow the ordinary kind of curled 
Endive, and the Batavian, which is nearly as 
mild as a lettuce ; but a small quantity will do 
for this sowing, and it should be in rich 
ground. 
Peas. — Continue the sowings of the dif- 
ferent kinds, but keep the quantities about the 
proper amount with regard to the previous 
and intended future sowings ; for, where you 
do this every two or three weeks, the ground 
would soon be crowded with one subject, 
though perhaps there is no garden production 
so universally a favourite. Draw the earth 
about the stems of those already up and ready, 
and stick such as require it ; indeed, even the 
most dwarf pea is the better for sticking, if it 
be only with sticks a foot high. Waite's 
Queen of Dwarfs, and Groom's Dwarf are the 
best, not even excepting Knight's Dwarf 
Marrow. The former has been grown, and 
approved in the Royal Gardens, and the 
flavour pronounced exquisite by the official 
authority, by command of the Queen, and is 
at present dear, but should be grown, if it be 
only for seed. 
Cauliflowers. — Plant out strong plants in 
good, well-dressed ground. They should be 
