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AMERICAN KITCHEN GARDENER, 
K Earth of a consistence that will hold water longest without becoming hard 
when dry , is that of all others the best adapted for raising the generality of 
plants in the greatest perfection. The great art of improving sandy and clay 
soils is to give to the former such dressings of clay, cow-dung, and othei 
kinds of manure, as will have a tendency to bind and make it more compact, 
and, consequently, more retentive of moisture ; and, to the latter, coats oi 
sandy earth, pond mud, horse dung, 57 &c.— ftP Mahon. 
Sow artichokes, 11, asparagus, 14, horse, or garden beans, 17, kidney beans, 
19, beets, 22, the last of this month, or the first of next, Borecole, 26, Brus¬ 
sels sprouts, 29 ; sow cabbage seed, 30, set out cabbage plants, 31, sow car- 
doons, 37, carrots, 38, cauliflowers, 41, celery, 43, coleworts,-succession- 
crops of cresses, 48, cucumbers in hollowed turnips placed in a hot-bed, 
53, or in pots under hand-glasses, &c.; propagate fruit-trees by cuttings. 
You may set out a few dandelion plants in your garden, 57, and let us know 
how you succeed in attempting to domesticate them. Look out for, and 
destroy insects; sow a little early summer endive, 58, fennel, 59 ; pro¬ 
pagate garlic, leeks, 60, lettuce, 61, marjoram, onions, 72, parsley, 78, pars- 
nep, 79, successive crops of different sorts of peas, 82, potatoes, 87, radish, 
95, sage, 99, salsify, 99, savory, 100, sea-kale, 101, skirret, 102. 
MAY. 
You may now sow most or all the articles mentioned in the Calendar foi 
the last month, either as first or succession-crops. Plant your cucumbers, 
49, and melons, 63, for a general crop in the open ground about the 20th ; 
also, squashes, pumpkins, and gourds ; likewise Indian corn for an early gar¬ 
den crop. Plant your bush-beans and pole-beans, for your principal crop, 
at any time when most convenient during the month, 17. It is recom¬ 
mended to set the poles, and then plant the beans round the poles. Weed 
and thin your advancing crops of radishes, 95. Transplant radishes for 
seed, 95. Sow succession-crops of spinach, 103. Carrots may be sown in 
the Eastern States in the forepart of the month, 38. Weed and thin beets, 
carrots, parsneps, onions, early turnips. Sow more turnips of the early kinds 
for crops in succession. Such sowing is best performed in the first week of 
the month, in order that the roots may have time to grow to a good size be¬ 
fore they are overtaken by summer heat and drought. Early cauliflower 
plants, as they advance in growth, should have earth drawn up about their 
stems, and be watered in dry weather. You will do well to sow peas for 
succession-crops, at least twice this month, 82. You may set out or trans¬ 
plant early lettuce. Sow as many of the sorts of small salading as you may 
need for market or family consumption. Now is, perhaps, as proper a 
time as any in the year for pruning fruit-trees. The season for pruning is 
immediately before, or commensurate with, the rising of the sap. Let your 
ducks have constant employment as vermin pickers. Attack insects by 
sprinkling over them, by means of a syringe, watering-pot, or garden engine, 
simple water, soap suds, decoctions of tobacco, of elder, &c. &c, 
JUNE. 
Melons and cucumbers, which have hitherto been protectee Dy glasses oi 
paper frames, may now be exposed to the open air. If the season be at all 
drv, your vegetables, particularly your cucumbers, will need water. [See 
