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thick. When the plants appear, the covering is raked off into the 
alleys every mild sun-shiny day, but always laid on again before dark. 
While uncovered, they must be guarded from the finches, which 
are fond of the seeds. The covering must be employed till all risk 
of hard frost is over, even up to the time the roots are fit for the 
table. 
Spinach .— A bed or two of spinach should now be sown, to suc¬ 
ceed the winter crop, which latter, if the spring be fine, soon runs 
to seed. 
Carrot .—A small piece of Early Horn may be sown, to come in 
between those raised on a hot-bed, and the principal crop to be sown 
in March. Some gardeners sow their radish and this sowing of carrots 
on the same ground, as both are the better for covering, and the carrots 
will come on after the radishes are drawn. 
The cauliflower, lettuce, and all other plants in frames, will require 
attention, at this time, to be kept healthy and safe from frost; and hot¬ 
beds in work require constant care to maintain the necessary heat, and 
give the necessary protection. 
Regarding hot-bed forcing, it is quite superfluous to give anything 
like directions for their management at this season. To those who 
know nothing of the business, our calendarial advice would be of little 
service, because we are necessarily ignorant both of the state of the 
beds, and of the plants upon them, and without a knowledge of both, 
no sound advice can be given. On the other hand, those who are actu¬ 
ally employed in such business need no advice from a distant quarter. 
The whole use of this portion of the Register is only a general remem¬ 
brancer of the seasonal duties of a gardener, and which mementos, 
by-the-by, are very often useful even to the oldest and most practised 
hands. 
Forcing cucumbers, melons, asparagus, carrot, potatoes, sea-kale, 
rhubarb, and all sorts of salad and seasoning herbs, are probably simul¬ 
taneously going on in dung hot-beds, all requiring a world of care, 
skill, and vigilance, which must be redoubled if frost be intense, or 
snow-storms prevail. In such seasons, all the out-door work which we 
have alluded to above, must be deferred until the return of open wea¬ 
ther, in which the first favourable opportunities must be seized to 
accomplish the several operations. 
Fruit Garden. 
In this department there is nothing but executing what was advised 
to be done last month, in the open air. If vineries and peacheries are 
