apples, scorzonera, salsafy, purslane, beans, from cold at night ; in the day, give air at 
peas, gourds, and pompions ; set pota- suitable times, and occasionally water mo- 
toes for a late crop, and plant slips of derately. You will now, in all probability, 
pot and sweet herbs ; destroy weeds, and have occasion to raise your glasses, so as 
water young plants when the weather is to give room ; do this by putting bricks, 
dry. &c. under the frames. As the melons set, 
In the Fruit-garden. Youmay plant trees, place a tile under each^ else the damp of 
propagate vines, summer-dress the old ones, the bed will stain and render the lower 
protect the blossoms of wall-fruit, rub off part unsightly. You can now sow cucurn- 
useless buds, and thin the fruit where too hers for pickling ; this may be done in a 
numerous; you may yet prune, and graft, free soil, fully exposed to the sun. At night 
or bud; destroy insects and weeds, clean cover the young plants with straw', &c. 
your strawberries very carefully, and clear Youmay also sow gourds, &e. This is a good 
them from runners, except what you keep time for a full crop of kidney beaus, and, if 
for planting out in June ; water these plants fair, for the scarlet runners : put in small 
well, or they will bear but poorly. salading, spinach, turnips, carrots, pasnips, 
In the Pleasure-garden. You may yet sow onions, for succeeding crops ; taking care to 
tender annuals on hot-beds ; the more weed and water these formerly sown : set 
hardy will succeed with less heat, and the out cabbages and savoys ; screen your can- 
hardy will only require warm clean bor- liflowers from the sun, by bending in the 
ders: your bulbous roots will be in bios- leaves over the flowers, which will now be 
som, and must be amply watered ; in very forming : water these plants well, making a 
hot weather you must shade them, or they trench, or bason, for that purpose : trans- 
will soon pass off; carnations and polyan- plant cauliflowers, and sow' for a Michaelmas 
thuses may yet be sown ; those in pots will crop. Sow brocoli, borecole, beans, peas, 
demand attention ; transplant fibrous root- &c. and stick the peas which are ready ; 
ed perennials, sow some also; set your top off your blossoming beans ; sow endive, 
tuberoses in hot-beds, or in hot houses; pay for an early crop, propagate pot-herbs ansi 
attention to your auriculas, and save their aromatics by cuttings, &c. Support seed- 
seed very carefully ; sow balm of Gilead, mg plants, prick out celery, and sow some, 
plant out evergreens and flowering shrubs, also some radishes ; thin your cardoons, 
propagate them; roll your grass-walks often, and weed with diligence : if the weather 
and, if too luxuriant, mow them ; plant proves dry, water liberally, 
box and thrift edgings, put sticks to your In the Fruit-garden. Look to your wall 
flowering plants, roll your gravid-walks af- trees, protect from birds and insects, which 
ter turning them, and destroy weeds every by the end of the month will be pecking 
wllere - at your early fruits ; trim the shoots and 
In the Nursery. Finish sowing evergreens, leaves of all fruit-trees, to allow the fruit 
flowering-shrubs, and tree-seeds ; water sun and air, bat without scorching ; thin 
your seed-beds, transplant evergreens, ex- your wall-fruit where too close or abun- 
amine your grafts, and make new ones early dant ; destroy snails, keep your borders 
in the month. \ clean, fumigate to kill small insects, water 
In the Green-house. Give air to your plants, new planted trees; clear aw’ay superfluous 
water and shift into larger pots or tubs, put clusters from your vines , look to your 
fresh earth, cleanse the plants, head down strawberries, watering them amply ; examine 
myrtles, & c., inarch, and propagate by grafted trees. 
seeds and cuttings. In the Flower-garden. Be attentive to your 
In the Hot-house. Your pine-apples, will bulbous flowers, take up such as have lost 
demand daily attendance, and must be li- their leaves, and lay them to season ; your 
berally supplied with water, keep the heat carnations will require care, trim off all 
well up, admit air occasionally in suitable puny flowers; your tender annuals must 
weather; stove exotics may now be propa- be again removed to a fresh hot-bed; those 
gated by seeds, cuttings, layers, or suckers, sown last month may now be pricked out : 
the less tender may be set out into open 
spaces, if the W'eather is warm, choosing 
MAY. 
Kitchen-garden. As your melons and cu- moist weather for that operation. You 
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