CALENDARIAL MEMORANDA FOR MAY. 
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Lettuce. —Sow all the desired sorts twice or three times in the month, 
and continue to transplant from former seed-beds, placing them in rows 
ten inches apart, and on rich or well-manured ground. 
Turnips.— Sow a rather large piece of the stone variety ; this sort 
is nearly equal to the early Dutch for sweetness, and is always of a 
moderate size and handsome shape. 
Spinach. —To have a regular succession sow once a fortnight of the 
round-seeded sort. 
Runner Kidney Bean. —Sow a full crop in this month. If any have 
been raised in boxes in the house they may now be planted out in single 
rowSj where there is plenty of room. If double rows are sown or planted 
they should not be nearer than four feet from each other. 
Beet. —The red will now require thinning, so as to stand at ten-inch 
distances; the green and white may be allowed six-inch distances 
between plant and plant. 
Potatoes. —May still be planted, but the sooner in the month this 
business is done the better chance there will be of a mature crop of tubers. 
Vegetable Marrow and Gourds .—Preparation must be made about 
the middle of the month for the culture of these plants. These are 
treated in the same way as ridged cucumbers; and the plants being 
previously raised and potted off in hotbeds, may be put out under 
hand-glasses at the same time, say about the 20th day of the month. 
Seeds of vegetable marrow and cucumbers may also be sown on warm 
borders about the end of the month, and will succeed pretty well unless 
the summer is very cold and wet indeed; but they are the better for 
being started on a little dung heat. This is done either by making 
trenches or square pits two feet wide, and as much in depth, filling the 
same with well-prepared stable dung, and immediately covering this 
with about eight inches of dry rich compost. Soon as the heat has 
risen and warmed the covering of compost, place the hand-glasses three 
feet apart along the middle of the trench or rank of pits, and under 
each a pot containing three cucumber plants are carefully placed a little 
deeper in the compost than the depth of the pot. Thus planted, 
watered, and the glasses put on, they are covered on nights, and shaded 
by day with mats till they have taken fresh root; after which they only 
require a little fresh air every day by raising the south front of the 
glasses on a brick-bat, and shut down at night. 
Herbs. —Different kinds should now be propagated by slips. 
MANAGEMENT OF WALL AND FORCED FRUITS DURING MAY. 
Apricot Trees. —These trees will require to be narrowly looked over 
in this month; misplaced shoots should be rubbed off before gaining 
strength to exhaust the juices of the tree, and all distorted leaves, the 
