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CALENDARIAL MEMORANDA FOR MAY. 
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Kitchen Garden. — Peas ancl Qommon Beans. —Sow once a fort¬ 
night for successive crops; also stick and earth up crops which require 
such treatment. 
Dwarf Kidney Beans. —Moderate sowings of the Canterbury and 
dun-coloured varieties may now be sown on a south border of dry soil, 
in drills, two and a half feet apart. 
Carrots. —Should be sown about the beginning, to draw when young 
during summer. The main crops will require thinning towards the 
end, and left at eight inches apart; a bed or two may be left thicker, 
to be drawn as wanted. 
Broccoli. —Plant out the early raised plants two feet asunder, for 
heading in autumn; and sow the Siberian to produce heads late in the 
spring of next year. About the middle of the month sow the green and 
early purple Cape varieties, and Grainge’s early white, to come in from 
the end of August to Christmas; at the end sow the green close-headed 
for winter use. 
Onions. —Sow the silver-skinned to draw young in summer, and a 
bed or two very thick to produce bulbs for pickling. Thin and weed 
the first-sown crop. 
Cauliflowers. —Those under hand-glasses may now be fully exposed ; 
the earth drawn to form basins round the space occupied by the plants, 
and supplies of manured water frequently given to assist the growth. 
Towards the end sow another bed to raise plants for Michaelmas and 
winter supply. 
Savoy Cabbage. —Plant out the earliest raised seedlings about two 
feet asunder, to head in autumn. 
Celery. — The first-raised plants may now be transplanted into 
trenches for an early crop ; a few trenches only will suffice at this time. 
Cabbage. —Plant out the spring-raised seedlings for autumn con¬ 
sumption; and sow more seed of the early York and Battersea sorts. 
Hoe among, and draw earth to the stems of the earlier crops ; and tie up 
the leaves of the forwardest with strings of mat to assist the heading. 
JRadish. — Continue to sow successive crops of the short top, and red 
and white turnip sorts at least once a fortnight; choose a cool and 
moist situation for these sowings. 
Endive. —Sow a small bed of the green-curled sort towards the end 
of the month. 
Small Salad. —Sow once a week on warm borders, in order to have 
a constant supply. 
