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may also be sown at this time, to raise young plants for future use; 
and if new plantations are required, now is the proper season. 
Artichokes must now have their spring regulation, by levelling 
down and digging the ground among them, reducing the stools to a 
moderate number of the strongest shoots, and slipping off all redundant 
suckers, which may be used to form new plantations, which also may 
be done in this month. 
When the general business of cropping is over, all unsightly cover¬ 
ings of litter used during winter should be removed, all vacant borders 
and pieces of ground digged and prepared for cropping, and the face of 
the garden put in order; then, as a finish, the w r alks may be turned, 
and all set to rights for the summer. 
Wall Ti 'ees .—The peach and nectarine trees which had their shoots 
loosened from the wall in the autumn, must now be pruned, and nailed 
again just before the flowers open. Our reasons for this procedure were 
given in November; and there is, in most seasons, much advantage in 
keeping the flowering backwards at this time, when night frosts may 
still annoy. All other pruning not yet done, should be finished without 
delay. 
Flower Garden.— This is a busy month in the flower garden. 
The whole surface must be got smooth and in order for sowing hardy 
annuals, and the tender sorts sown in hotbed heat, preparatory to 
getting them forward for planting in the open ground as soon as the 
season permits. Dahlia seed may be sown, and the old tubers should 
be now placed in leaf-mould on a mild hotbed, or in the back of a 
stove, to raise shoots of which young plants are made for flowering. 
All greenhouse plants which flower in the open borders in summer and 
autumn, should now be propagated by cuttings and slips, and placed on 
a little heat to forward them. To particularise every plant which may 
be so treated, would form a very long list; and the flower gardener will 
not be confined to such sorts as are usually so treated, but to every 
other which he may deem suitable for the purpose. Many are more 
splendidly flowered in the open air than in the greenhouse. All the 
bed-fkuvers, particularly tulips, now require attention, lest they be 
damaged by hail-storms or frost. All potted Hoovers, as auriculas, 
carnations, pinks, &c., should receive their spring top-dressings and 
regulation. Successions of all sorts of hoovering shrubs, bulbs, &c., 
may be placed in heat, and a full stock of everything provided for a 
full show in summer and autumn. 
