In the Hot-house. Your pine-apples will demand daily attendance, and must be liberally supplied with water, keep the heat well up, admit air occasionally in suitable weather ; stove exotics may now be propagated by seeds, cuttings, layers, or suckers.
MAY.
Kitchen•garden. As your melons and cucumbers, will be getting fast forward, you must carefully keep up the heat of your beds by fresh linings of dung, and screen from cold at night ; in the day, give air at suitable times, and occasional ly water moderately. You will now, in all probability, have occasion to raise your glasses, so as to give room ; do this by putting bricks, &c. under the frames. As the melons set, place a tile under each, else the damp of the bed will stain and render the lower part unsightly. You can now sow cucumbers for pickling : this may be done in a free soil, fully ex posed to the sun. At night cover the young plants with straw, &c. You may also sow gourds, &c. This is a good time for a full crop of kidney beans, and, if fair, for the scarlet runners: put in small salading, spinach, turnips, carrots, parsnips, onions, for succeeding crops ; taking care to weed and water those for merly sown : set out cabbages and savoys; screen your cauliflowersfrom the sun, by bending in the leaves over the flowers, which will now be forming: water these plants well, making a trench, or basin, for that purpose : transplant cauliflowers, and sow for a Michaelmas crop. Sow brocoli, borecole, beans, peas, &c. and stick the peas which are ready ; top off your blossoming beans ; sow endive, for an early crop, propagate pot-herbs and aromatics by cuttings, 8cc Support seed ling plants, prick out celery, and sow come, also some radishes ; thin your cardoons, and weed with diligence : if the weather proves dry, water liberal ly.
In the Fruit-garden. Look to your wall trees, protect from birds and insects, which by the end of the month will be pecking at your early fruits; trim the shoots and leaves of all fruit-trees, to allow the fruit sun and air, but without scorch ing ; thin your wall-fruit where too close or abundant ; destroy snails, keep your borders clean, fumigate, to kill small in sects, water new planted trees; clear away superfluous clusters from your vines, look to your strawberries, watering them amply ; examine grafted trees.
In the Flower-garden. Be attentive to your bulbous flowers, take up such as have lost their leaves, and lay them to season ; your carnations will require care, trim off all puny flowers ; your tender annuals must be again removed to a fresh hot-bed ; those sown last month may now be pricked out : the less tender may be set out into open spaces, if the weather is warm, choosing moist weather for that operation. You may sow
hardy annuals, and propagate double flow ers by slips : preserve seedling bulbs from too great heat. When your auriculas have done flowering, remove them to the open air; plant tuberoses for the next year, transplant perennial flowers, and sow some of their seeds ; destroy weeds, mow your lawns, and keep your gravel walks perfectly clean.
In the Nursery. Water seedlings, and shade them, if hot weather ; propagate evergreens by layers, and look over your grafts.
In the Green-house. A free circulation should be allowed, and the plants be gradually introduced to the open air ; re move decayed parts, and shift into larger vessels where wanted ; water freely, and propagate by layers and cuttings.
In the Hot-house. Your pines will want water often, and fresh air occasionally; ou must look to your exotics, and propagate by seeds, cuttings, &c.
JUNE.June.
Kitchen-garden. Your melons must be protected from excessive heat by mats over the glasses, which they will now bear to be well raised, water them and your cucumbers ; all under bell-glasses should have free range; thin out the gerkin plants, leaving four in each hole, setting out the rest as before directed into ridges, &c. You may yet sow for pickling ; transplant celery into trenches for blanching, also endive ; set out let tuces, and sow more seed ; sow radishes, and small salading ; prick out cauliflow ers, and pay attention to those now get ting forward, save some seed from the best heads ; sow a full crop of turnips for autumn ; weed and loosen about your carrots and parsnips, also your beets ; thin and clear your onions ; transplant leeks, brocoli, and borecole ; plant kid ney and running beans ; sow peas and beans for late crops, and a full crop of cabbages and savoys for winter. Cut no asparagus after this month ; plant pot-herbs, gather mint, plant out cap sicum, love-apples, and basil ; water freely every where ; weed carefully, set out cardoons for blanching; sow spinach and radishes ; and keep your manure compact, so as not to be injured by the heat.