HORTICULTURAL CALENDAR. 
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Spinach. —Towards the middle of the month sow some Flanders and round seeded spinach 
to succeed the winter crops. , 
Onions. —About the end of the month, if the the weather be favourable and the ground pre¬ 
pared, sow the main crop, in beds four feet and a half wide, and drilled six inches apart in the 
beds. 
Parsley , Thyme , and various other potherbs, may be sown towards the end of the month. 
Mustard and Cress may still be sown in pans or boxes every week, and placed on the flues 
of the vinery, or other warm situation. 
Rhubarb. —Plant two year old roots for forcing, as recommended last month. 
Kidney Beans.— Sow the cream-coloured and early-buff in small pots, partly filled with light 
mould, or soil from a cucumber bed, and set them on the flues ; when in the first rough leaf, 
turn them out with balls into pots ten inches deep, spreading the plants round the edges of the 
pots, and raising the soil as high as the cotyledons; they require a heat from 65 to 75 degrees 
Fahr. to bring them to perfection, with plenty of air: avoids topping the plants, and sow once 
a week where a regular supply is wanted. 
Asparagus may be still taken up, and planted in a frame on a slight hotbed for forcing. 
Parsnips. —At the end of the month, sow the Guernsey and hollow-crowned sorts, for a main 
crop. 
Shallots and Garlic should be planted towards the end of the month, when not done in the 
autumn, in drills fifteen inches apart, and six inches from root to root in the drill. 
Cabbages. —Plant out autumn sown ones for use in July, and sow a little seed for use, as 
greens in August and September. 
FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 
Roses in Pots now placed in the forcing-houses, will produce flowers towards the middle of 
April. 
Annuals. — For a selection of the finest sorts, see p. 30, of the present volume. 
Auriculas should now be top-dressed, with a mixture of fresh yellow loam, rotten horse dung, 
river sand, leaf mould, and sheep or fowls’ dung, as recommended Vol. 1. 
Dahlia seed should now be sown in pots, and placed in a hot-bed frame, and a few old roots 
plunged in tan about the middle of (he month. 
Polyanthuses should now be top-dressed with light maideu soil, mixed with a little new 
horse-dung; and the seed should be sown in boxes or pans filled with light new mould- 
Ranunculuses should be planted about the end of’the month in prepared beds. 
Tulips in beds should be carefully examined on a dry day, after they appear above ground, 
and all injured parts of both leaves and roots removed. If the seed sown last year is up, let 
the young plants be pricked off, either in pots, or in a bed of light sandy soil. 
FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 
Vines. —Prune such as are planted to bear fruit in green-houses. Also introduce vines in 
pots into the vinery, to ripen their fruit in June. Grapes that were set last month will require 
thinning, and the young shoots of the vines tying in. See Vol. 1. 
Chery Houses will now require attention. Admit air night and day, and if the weather be 
frosty, iKcrease the fire to keep the thermometer as high as 40 deg. for during the time of flow¬ 
ering they will bear but little heat. Pick off the curled leaves, and destroy the caterpillars 
they contain. 
Strawberries in Pots bring in once a fortnight, and give them a plentiful supply of water. 
Peach Houses. —When the trees are in flower, or setting their fruit, give abundance of air as 
early in the morning as possible, and shut up early in the afternoon; the less fire is used in 
forcing the better. Occasionally moisten the air by steaming. 
Peaches and Nectarines on the open wall, should have their buds advanced a little before 
pruning, or they are liable to be injured, if the weather comes severe. 
Pruning and Nailing generally, must be finished as soon as possible, or it will interfere with 
other spring work. 
Raspberries. —Plant in rows five feet apart, and four feet from stool to stool in the 
rows; let each stool contain three plants in a triangular form, and cut them down to about two 
feet high. 
Gra ft Fruit Trees, where it is wished to change the sorts. 
THOMAS HARDCASTLE, PRINTER, SHEFFIELD. 
