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CALEXI>ARIAL MEMORANDA FOR MAY. 
Broccoli. —If any early-sown seedlings be fit to transplant, it may 
now be done. Deep and ricb ground is required, in order to have 
heads of good size. It is impossible to have fine broccoli on poor land, 
and, to have strong stocky plants, it is a good plan to give them a 
month’s growth in a second nursery-bed before they are put out for 
good. A small bed of the Siberian sort may be sown towards the end 
for the latest next spring crop. The middle of the month is a good 
season to sow the green and early purple Cape sorts, and Grainge’s 
early white, to come in during the autumn. At the end, sow the 
green close-headed for winter use. 
Carrots. —A moderate-sized piece of this vegetable should be sown 
in this month for drawing young in summer. The principal crops will 
require thinning towards the end, and must be kept constantly free 
from weeds. 
Spinach.—Sow once a fortnight. 
Onioyis. —Sow the silver-skinned for drawing young for salads, and 
a bed or two thick for picklers. Thin and weed the principal crop 
sown in March. If thinned by the hoe, the soil should not be deeply 
loosened, as onions always bulb better on firm than on loose ground. 
Cabbage and savoys for autumn use should now be planted out, and 
a trench or two may be got ready for the first crop of celery. 
Radish of different varieties, lettuces and small salad herbs may be 
sown twice in the month, and, about the end, a small bed of the green- 
curled endive. The different sorts of lettuce should be frequently 
transplanted from former sowings to secure a constant supply. 
Turnip. —Sow another piece of the earl)'- Dutch or stone sorts, to 
succeed those sown last month. Turnips for genteel tables should 
always be young; they are in the highest perfection, as well in con¬ 
sistence as flavour, when about two and a half inches in diameter. 
The white Norfolk, an agricultural variety, are seldom seen in gardens, 
but they are highly valued by the cook for their superior sweetness, if 
not too large. 
Beet. —The different sorts will require thinning, leaving the red ten 
inches apart, the green and white somewhat closer. 
Potatoes .—In some families, young potatoes are required all the 
year round. The smallest early varieties, such as the Early Frame 
and Early Batson’s, are the most suitable sorts, because of these 
acquiring a degree of wholesome maturity wTien very small. A few 
may be therefore put in from time to time, up to the end of July, if 
the old tubers can be kept dormant so long. We have known the 
earliest hot-bed potato plants, which were gradually robbed of their 
first tubers as they became fit for use, continue to produce others 
