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CALENDARIAL MEMORANDA FOR MARCH. 
This is one of the busiest months of the year in every department 
of gardening. The seeds of many of the principal crops must now be 
committed to the earth, and every part of the’ garden should be put 
into trim order. 
Kitchen Garden. —The knowledge of the quantities of culinary 
crops sown in the preceding months serves to regulate the kinds and 
quantities now to be sown. If quantities of peas and beans commen¬ 
surate to the demand have already been sown, similar quantities will 
now require to be put in to keep up the supply. And to secure such 
supply different varieties of the same kinds should be from time to 
time sown. If the same kinds of peas and beans are preferred, a 
sowing of the necessary quantity should be made every fortnight. 
In sowings of these crops at this time of the year, they are some¬ 
times put in with the view of having other crops interlined, an 
excellent plan when the ground is limited in extent. In this case, the 
first crops should be drilled at greater distances apart; say, for the 
stronger growing sorts of peas, four and a half or five feet; and for 
common beans four feet asunder. These crops are never augmented by 
being too close together in the rows ; and putting them in at good dis¬ 
tances adds to their fruitfulness, and leaves a good space for the intro¬ 
duction of double rows of savoys, cabbage, or broccoli in the summer. 
If peas or beans have been raised in pots or boxes they may be 
safely transplanted before the end of the month; drills should be 
opened to receive them, and, being removed carefully, placed at proper 
distances in the drills, and immediately earthed up. The state of the 
w T eather will best determine when this work should be done, as well 
as indicate whether they may require a little w r ater when planted, or 
need a slight covering afterward. 
In sow r ing peas at this season, there is an old rule which may just 
be mentioned, viz.:—“to sow the next crop as soon as the previous one 
appears above ground.” This holds good through the present month, 
and perhaps the first fortnight of the next; but after that time the 
increasing heat of the season renders sowing at longer intervals 
necessary. Former sow-iugs, if advanced any height, so as to be shaken 
by the w r ind, should be carefully earthed up. Keen March w r inds are 
often hurtful to exposed crops of peas, by withering or breaking the 
slender stalks. 
Cauliflower .—If the w r eather be inviting towards the end of the 
month, prepare the ground on which to put out the plants which have 
been under hand-glasses or in frames during winter. They require rich 
