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-kitchen-garden. Cucumbers and melons will be sown with better success in this, than in the former month ; but take care they have not too much heat, as they will be apt to wither : to prevent this, let them be sown or set upon little hillocks, or ridges, which will expose a greater surface to the air ; stop, e. pinch off, the young plants at the first joints of the first shoots, so as to cause their sending out many fruitful runners; do this when they haie two rough leaves, not longer than a shilling; force asparagus in hot-beds, breaking off the shoots with your finger, avoiding to cut them ; kidney-beans, small satading, &c. may proceed, assliewn in the last month's directions; give your cauliflower plants air, and by the end of the month you may plant out to two feet asunder, taking care to cover with haulm, &c.; if the weather comes on very cold, leave one plant under each glass ; sow cauliflower seed; transplant cabbages, sow cabbage and savoy seeds, also early celery, radishes of sortsopinach, lettuces, carrots, parsnips, beets, leeks, onions, beans, peas, pot-herbs, potatoes, horse radish, turnips,liquorice, &c. for a general crop ; taking care to break the soil well, and to choose favourable times for putting in the seeds, or sets.
In the Fruit-garden. Continue to prune fruit-trees, and especially vines, dress strawberry beds, plant fruit-trees, dig the borders, graft, and go on forcing the early flowers and fruits. • In the Flower-garden. You may sow tender annuals on hot-beds, during the early part of the month ; and towards the end all the hardy annuals ; plant out the hardy fibrous rooted plants, such as prim roses, violets, polyanthuses, &c. ; dress your auriculas, and sow their seed ; also those of the polyanthus, in rich, light earth, very shallow; transplant your car nations, defend bulbous roots, prune flowering shrubs, plant out such as are wanted, together with evergreens ; plant hedges, lay turf, trim lawns and walks, set box, &c. for edgings.
In the Nursery. Propagate by cuttings, suckers, and layers ; transplant layers, flowering shrubs, stocks to graft on, fruit and forest trees ; sow seeds of ditto, and head down budded stocks.
In the Green-house. Look to the shrubs, &c. ; giving air, and water, in proportion to the mildness of the weather. You may
now trim myrtles, oranges, &c. to any in tended form.
In the Hot-house. The pines will demand much assiduity ; foe an improper degree of heat will at this period injure them very considerably: keep up to 73 degrees, by means of fresh bark to be mixed with that in which the pots were plunged. Moderate watering will contribute both . . to growth and flavour. Keep your exotics I, very clean from decayed leaves, and wash dust, &c. from the leaves ; above all things, remove cob-webs wherever they appear ; and, if necessary, fumigate, to destroy insects, which will now begin to spew themselves. Fresh air must now and then be admitted, when the weather admits. Your strawberries, kidney-beans, cucumbers, roses, &c. will now get fast forward ; but you must guard against frost, which would do great injury, if your fires were neglected.
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Kitchen-garden. Attend to your cucum bers and melons ; you may now sow the seeds of the later sorts ; such as the Smyrna, the long green, and long white Tinkey kinds. Make new hot-beds, to receive them when fit to transplant. About this time, your cauliflower-plants may be removed from the warm borders, and set out ; these will now occupy the beds of your spinach,and radishes ; which will soon be gone. and leave only the cau liflowers. Sow brecoli for an autumnal crop ; also cabbages, some of which may now be transplanted. Sow savoys, and lettuces, also spinach, leeks, onions, bore.: Bole, radishes of sorts, carrots, and pars. nips, all on good soil, well prepared, and made very fine ; fork and dress up your asparagus, and plant out where wanted ; you may also sow some seed ; dress your artichokes, and plant out; set beans for a full crop, also peas ; earth up any that are grown sufficiently ; sow turnips for a full crop, also celery, small salad, and all the tribe of medical and potherbs; nas turtiums may be sown very early in this month ; capsicums should be in a hot-bed, and be set out as the weather grows warm, after they have four leaves ; if six, or eight, the better. Love-apples will re quire the same treatment ; kidney-beans, potatoes, and Jerusalem artichokes, should not be omitted. Set slips of rose mary, rue, chives, mint ; and let your gar lic, scallions, cardoons, &c. now be com mitted to the soil.