In the Fruit-garden. Prune your fig trees, and plant also where they are want ed ; if your wall fruit-trees have not been trimmed, lose no time in attending to them ; some will be in bloom, if the sea son favours ; cover such with mats at night, to keep the frost from injuring them. Fruit-trees in-general may yet be planted out, but no time should be lost ; and the borders in which they stand should now be well dug. Prune vines, and propagate by means of cuttings. It is ex pedient to remark, in this place, that it has been recently proposed to graft vines upon elders at this season, under the idea of producing early fruit, and of giving the clusters more time for ripening ; the sug gestion is assuredly ingenious, and merits trial. Dress your strawberries well, and run light whisps of straw at right angles under the foliage, so as to support the leaves, and to retain the moisture in the soil. Continue to forceyour early fruit, taking care to keep up fires every night.
In the Flower-garden. You will find am ple employment in setting out your early annuals, sowing tender annuals on hot beds, and the more hardy sorts in warm borders. Fresh earth must be given to plants in pots; the chrysanthemums, auri culas, carnations, hyacinths, &c. will now demand care, as will all your curious flow ers. Now plant anemones, and ranuncu and sow the fibrous-rooted annuals and biennials ; transplant perennials, prune your shrubs, hoe and rake your borders, dig where necessary, and clean your clumps ; plant deciduous flowering shrubs, and forest-trees; transplant your evergreens, remove roses, plant edgings and hedges, clean your garden wall, clear your gravel walks from rubbish, lay your turf where wanted, and roll your lawns very smooth in dry weather.
in the Nursery. Graft on proper stocks, sow the seeds of deciduous trees and shrubs, propagate also by cuttings, sow hardy ever greens; weed the whole care fully, and water seedlings.
In the Green-House. Moderate the heat, by admitting fresh air in mild weather ; if frosty, or very cold, keep all shut close ; trim your orange-trees, myrtles, &c. into shape ; shift such plants as require larger pots, give fresh earth to the roots in gene ral; sow the seeds of exotics, and of oranges for stocks.
In the Hat-House. Your pines will be gin to shew fruit; therefore keep up the heat, water these plants frequently, and, in favourable days, admit a little air.
APRIL.April.
Kitchen-garden. Keep up yourhot-beds for cucumbers and melons, allowing the young plants air daily; give water occa sionally, and remove decayed leaves ; if the sun is very powerful, put mats, &c.
over your glasses ; impregnate the female flowers, by means of the fine powder on the anthem of the male blossoms, this will insure an early crop, and should be done on the day the flowers first open ; make hot-bed ridges, to receive the plants intended to be set out under bell or hand glasses ; sow melon and cucumber seeds fbr a late crop, plant out your lettuces, sow small salading, radishes, turnips, spi nach, kidney-beans, brocoli, onions, leeks, cardoons, carrots, parsnips, pot herbs, capsicums, love.apples, scorzone ra, salsafy, purslane, beans, peas, gourds, and pompions ; set potatoes for a late crop, and plant slips of pot and sweet herbs ; destroy weeds, and water young plants when the weather is dry.
In the Fruit-garden. You may plant trees, propagate summer-dress the old ones, protect the blossoms of wall fruit, rub off useless buds, and thin the fruit where too numerous ; you may yet prune, and graft, or bud ; destroy insects and weeds, clean your strawberries very carefully, and clear them from runners, except what you keep for planting out in Jung; water these plants well, or they will bear but poorly.
In the Pleasure-garden. You may yet sow tender annuals on hot-beds; the more hardy will succeed with less heat, and the hardy will only require warm clean borders : your bulbous roots will be in blossom, and must be amply watered in very hot weather you must shade them, or they will soon pass off; carnations and polyanthuses may yet be sown ; those in pots will demand attention ; transplant fibrous rooted perennials, sow some also ; set your tuberoses in hot-beds, or in hot houses ; pay attention to your auriculas, and save their seed very carefully ; sow balm of Gilead, plant out ever greens and flowering shrubs, propagate them ; roll your grass walks often, and, if too luxu riant, mow them ; plant box and thrift edgings, put sticks to your flowering plants, roll your gravel-walks after turn ing them, and destroy weeds every where.
In the Nursery. Finish sowing ever greens, flowering-shrubs, and tree-seeds; water your seed-beds, transplant ever greens, examine your grafts, and make new ones early in the month.
In the Green-house. Give air to your plants, water and shift into larger pots or tubs, put fresh earth, cleanse the plants, head down myrtles, &c. inarch, and pro pagate by seeds and cuttings.