GARDENING. 
The plants will rise in a week, but you 
should never keep them so hot as to steam 
the glasses. Sow successively, in case of 
accidents, to which this class are very sub- 
ject. If the beds cool too much, lay fresh 
litter all around them ; or, if "practicable, 
rako out some of the old litter, and fill up 
with very fresh dung ; avoiding much pres- 
sure. The outside dressing will require to 
be changed every fortnight, as the heat 
will in that time be greatly abated. When 
the plants have made two good shoots, ex- 
clusive cf their first leaves, you may re- 
move the pots, in which they were sown, to 
a larger bed, where they are to remain, 
stripping off such shoots just beyond their 
second joints. In such beds you may force 
asparagus, lettuce, small salading, love 
apples, radishes, and an infinite variety 
of vegetables for early use : this will, how- 
ever, require extensive and numerous beds. 
You may in this month, if the weather be 
mild, sow parsley, beans, and peas, spinach, 
carrots, &c. but do not depend on their 
succeeding : they should all be sown on 
warm borders. Plant out cabbages for 
summer use, and in all tlis varieties for 
seed. For this latter purpose you may keel 
in any old stems that have good sprouts on 
them, they will furnish excellent seed, plant 
them in an open part, in a deep, well-work- 
ed soil, highly manured ; your cauliflower- 
plants that stand under glasses, should be 
clean picked from all decayed leaves, and 
be well weeded ; give them air occasion- 
ally during mid-day, when the sun is out ; 
but close up well at night, so as to shut out 
the frost ; if intensely cold, cover with mat- 
ting, straw, &c. ; earth your celery up well 
in dry, open weather, breaking the earth 
very small, and applying it gently ; remove 
all the rotten tops, by twisting them off 
very carefully ; your endive should also be 
picked, and tied up, in fair weather. If the 
plants appear wet, and injured in the heart, 
take them up, and, after hanging for two or 
three days, by their roots, to drain, trans- 
plant them into clean, well-prepared beds, 
earthing them up half way of their leaves, 
but taking care that no soil be admitted 
within them. Artichokes should be attend- 
ed to, and well landed up ; also be supplied 
with long litter to preserve them from frost ; 
cover your mushroom-beds well for the 
same reason. 
In the Fruit garden, finish the pruning of 
your apple and pear trees, training all the 
shoots that are to remain, at full six inches 
asunder; you must also prune and nail your 
plum and cherry trees, as well as your 
pehches, apricots, and nectarines, provided 
the weather is mild, else it were better de- 
ferred to a more favourable time ; how- 
ever, you need not be apprehensive from 
slight frosts. Always loosen the whole tree 
before you begin to prune, so that you may 
remedy any defects, and be enabled to 
make a more perfect arrangement, cutting 
out all useless wood. You may prune vines 
when the weather permits, keeping only 
the shoots of the last season, no others be- 
ing bearers. Gooseberries and currants 
must be trimmed with a bold hand, to al- 
low free access of sun and air ; keep only 
the wood of one, or two years. Raspber- 
ries must be looked to, cutting away all but 
the young shoots ; these should be shorten- 
ed about one-third of their length. You 
may now set out the cuttings from goose- 
berries and currants, and the young shoots 
of raspberries ; plant at least four feet asun- 
der every way, else your fruit will be small, 
and deficient in flavour ; choose an open si- 
tuation and a free soil. 
You must now prepare ground for plan- 
tations of fruit-trees, choosing good situa- 
tions ; your wall and espalier trees ought to 
have ample room, not less than twenty 
feet asunder : in a few years, they will co- 
ver well, and bear rich crops; standards 
ought to be full forty feet apart : if the wea- 
ther proves severe, defer this work until it 
moderates, and look well to your old trees, 
covering their roots with litter, and support- 
ing newly planted standards with stakes, 
leaning on hay-bands, so as not to injure 
the bark. Prune old standards, and begin 
the forcing of hot-house plants, by closing 
well up, and keeping a temperature of from 
seventy-five to eighty degrees, Fahrenheit. 
As the fruit begins to ripen, allow water in 
moderation. Your strawberries will parti- 
cularly come under notice in the forcing 
time; and all the potted plants must be 
placed in hot-beds for that purpose. 
In your Flower-garden, see that tire auri- 
culas, carnations, hyacinths, and tulips be 
well sheltered from inclement weather. 
You may now plant tuiips, anemones, ra- 
nunculuses, crocuses, jonquils, narcissuses, 
hyacinths, and all other bulbs , or you may 
set the roots on mantle or chimney-pieces, 
on glasses filled with water. Let all your 
perennial fibrous-rooted plants, such as 
double wall-flowers, double stocks, double 
sweet-williams, chrysanthemums, &c. &c. 
that are in pots, or under frames, be care- 
fully attended to. Cover, seedlings and 
