GARDENING. 
tender plants, not omitting to give air in 
mild weather. You should now prune and 
dig between your flowering shrubs; and 
may plant out roses, honeysuckles, lilacs, 
laburnums, privets, jasmines, and a great 
variety of the hardy class, observing to ar- 
range them tastefully, according to their 
colours, foliage, &c., and setting those 
which are tallest, when full grown, in the 
back part, whereby you will not obscure 
the lesser kinds. All hardy shrubs may now 
be propagated by layers ; and suckers may 
be removed from roses, syringas, spiraeas, 
lilacs, Sec. into rows, where they should 
stand for about two years, and then be set 
out to where they are to remain ; cuttings 
of hardy deciduous shrubs will now pro- 
ceed. Trim your grass-walks and lawns, 
throwing down worm-casts, and rolling 
with a wooden roller. You may at this 
season pare and lay turf. In dry weather, 
lay down and roll the gravel walks that 
were ridged; plant thrift and box edgings, 
if not done in Ootober or November. Fo- 
rest and ornamental trees should now be 
planted on dry soils ; these should, pro- 
perly, be of the hardy kinds. Hedges may 
be planted or plashed. 
In the Nursery. Transplant and prune 
your forest-trees, particularly those that are 
deciduous, if the weather admits ; for ever- 
greens the weather must be settled ; prune 
and transplant flowering shrubs ; plant fruit- 
tree stocks, and prepare for extensive 
plantings and sowings; in frosty weather 
carry dung, &c., losing no time ; take great 
care of young and seedling trees; propa- 
gate by cuttings. 
In the Hot house. Your pines will require 
great care ; you may also raise kidney- 
beans, cucumbers, strawberries, &c., and 
have abundance of flowering plants there- 
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FEBRUARY. 
Kitchen-garden. Cucumbers and melons 
will be sown with better success in this, 
than in the former month ; but take care 
they have not too much heat, as they will 
be apt to wither ; to prevent this, let them 
be sown or set upon little hillocks or ridges, 
which will expose a greater surface to the 
air ; stop, i. e. pinch oflf, the young plants 
at the first joints of the first shoots, so as to 
cause their sending out many fruit/ id run- 
ners; do this when they have two rough 
leaves, not longer than a shilling ; force as- 
paragus in hot-beds, breaking off the shoots 
with your finger, avoiding to cut them; 
VOL. III. 
kidney-beans, small salading, &e. may pro- 
ceed, as shewn in the last month’s direc- 
tions ; give your cauliflower- plants air, and 
by the end of the month you may plant out 
to two feet asunder, taking care to cover 
with haulm, &c. ; if the weather comes on 
very cold, leave one plant under each glass ; 
sow cauliflower seed, transplant cabbages, 
sow cabbage and savoy seeds, also early ce- 
lery, radishes of sorts, spinach, lettuces, car- 
rots, parsnips, beets, leeks, onions, beans, 
peas, pot-herbs, potatoes, horse-radish, tur- 
nips, liquorice, &c. for a general crop ; tak- 
ing care to break the soil well, and to 
choose favourable times for putting in the 
seeds, or sets. 
In the Fruit-garden. Continue to prune 
fruit-trees, and especially vines, dress straw- 
berry beds, plant fruit-trees, dig the bor- 
ders, graft, and go on forcing the early 
flowers and fruits. 
In the Flower-garden. You may sow ten- 
der annuals on hot-beds, during the early 
part of the month ; and towards the end all 
the hardy annuals ; plant out the hardy fi- 
brous rooted plants, such as primroses, vio- 
lets, polyanthuses, <Ssc ; dress your auricu- 
las, and sow their seed ; also those of the 
polyanthus, in rich, light earth, very shal- 
low ; transplant your carnations, defend 
bulbous roots, prune flowering shrubs, plant 
out such as are wanted, together with ever- 
greens ; plant hedges, lay turf, trim lawns 
and walks, set box, &c. for edgings. 
In the Nursery. Propagate by cuttings, 
suckers, and layers ; transplant layers, flow- 
ering shrubs, stocks to graft on, fruit and 
forest trees ; sow seeds of ditto, and head 
down budded stocks. 
In the Green-house. Look to the shrubs, 
&c. ; giving air, and water, in proportion 
to the mildness of the weather. You may 
now trim myrtles, oranges, &c. to any in- 
tended form. 
In the Hot-house. The pines will demand 
much assiduity ; for an improper degree of 
heat will at this period injure them very 
considerably: keep up to 75 degrees, by 
means of fresh bark to be mixed with that 
in which the pots were plunged. Mode- 
rate watering will contribute both to growth 
and flavour. Keep your exotics very clean 
from decayed leaves, and wash, dust, &c. 
from the leaves ; above all things, remove 
cob- webs wherever they appear; and, if 
necessary, fumigate to destroy insects, 
which will now begin to shew themselves. 
Fresh air must now and then be admitted, 
when the weather admits. Your straw- 
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