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Sow cabbage, red cabbage, peas, lettuce, broad-beans, carrots, -adish, 
turnip, beet, leeks, and herbs of various kinds such as sage, thyme, mint, &c. 
Exchallots, if ready, may be transplanted, also horse-radish can be set out now. 
The earlier sowings of all root crops should now be ready to thin out, if 
this has not been already attended to. 
Keep down the weeds among the growing crops by a free use of the hoe 
and cultivator. 
The weather is generally dry at this time of the year, so the more thorough 
the cultivation the better for the crops. 
Land for early potatoes should now be got ready by well digging or 
ploughing. 4 
Tomatoes intended to be planted out when the weather gets warmer may 
be sown towards the end of the month in a frame where the young plants will 
be protected from frost. 
Flower Garden —No time is now to’ be lost; for many kinds of plants 
need to be planted out early to have the opportunity of rooting and gathering 
strength in the cool moist spring time to prepare them for the trial of heat they 
must endure later on. Do not put your labour on poor soil. Raise only the best 
varieties of plants in the garden ; it costs no more to raise good varieties than 
poor ones. Prune closely all the hybrid perpetual roses, and tie up, without 
pruning, to trellis or stakes the climbing and tea-scented varieties, if not 
already done. These and other shrubs may still be planted. See where a new 
tree or shrub can be planted ; get these ii position; then they will give you 
abundance of spring bloom. Renovate and make lawns, and plant all kinds of 
edging. Finish all pruning. ‘Divide the roots of chrysanthemums, perennial 
phlox, and all other hardy clumps; and cuttings of all the summer bedding 
plants may be propagated. 
Sow first lot, in small quantities, of hardy and half-hardy annuals, 
biennials, and perennials, some of which are better raised in boxes and trans- 
planted into the open ground, but many of thisclass can, however, be successfully 
raised in the open border if the weather is favourable. Antirrhinum, carnation, 
picotees, dianthus, hollyhock, larkspur, pansy, petunia, Phlox Drummondit, 
stocks, wallflower, and zinnias, &c., may be sown either in boxes or open beds ; 
mignonette is best sown where it is intended to remain. a 
To grow these plants successfully, it is only necessary to thoroughly dig the 
round oyer to a depth of not less than 12 inches, and incorporate with it a good 
eins of well-decayed manure, which is most effectively done by a second 
digging ; the surface should then be raked over smoothly, so as to remove all 
stones and clods, thus reducing it to a fine tilth. The seed can then be sown 
in lines or patches as desired, the greatest care being taken not to cover deeply ; 
a covering of not more than three times the diameter of larger seeds, and a 
light sprinkling of fine soil over small seeds, being all that is necessary. A 
slight mulching of well-decayed manure and a watering with a fine-rosed can 
will complete the operation. “If the weather prove favourable, the young seed- 
lings will usually make their appearance in a week or ten days; thin out so as 
to leave each plant (if in the border) at least 4 to 6 inches apart. 
