You may in this month, if the weather be mild, sow parsley, beans, and peas, spinach, carrots, &c. but do not depend on their succeeding: they should all be sown on warm borders. Plant out cab. bages, for summer use, and in all the va rieties for seed. For this latter purpose, you may keel in any old stems that have good sprouts on them, they will furnish excellent seed, plant them in an open part, in a deep, well-worked soil, highly manured ; your cauliflower plants, that stand under glasses, should be clean pick ed from all decayed leaves, and be well weeded ; give them air occasionally dur ing mid-day, when the sun is out ; but close up well at night, so as to shut out the frost ; if intensely cold, cover with matting, straw, &c. earth your celery up well in dry, open weather, breaking the earth very small, and applying it gently ; remove all the rotten tops, by twisting them off very carefully; your endive should also be picked, and tied up, in fair weather. if the plants appear wet, and injured in the heart, take them up, and, after hanging for two or three days, by their roots, to drain, transplant them into clean, well prepared-beds, earthing them up half way of their leaves, but taking care that no soil be admitted within them. Artichokes should be attended 10, and well landed up ; also be supplied with long litter, to preserve them from frost ; cover your mushroom-beds well for the same reason.
In the Fruit garden, finish the pruning of your apple and pear-trees, training all the shoots that are to remain, at full six inches asunder ; you must als0 prune and nail your plum and cherry trees, as well as your peaches, apricots, and nectarines, provided the weather is mild, else it were better deferred to a more favourable time ; however, you need not be appre hensive from slight frosts. Always loosen the whole tree before you begin to prune, so that you may remedy any defects, and he enabled to make a more perfect ar rangement, cutting out all useless wood. You may prune vines when the weather permits, keeping only the shoots of the last season, no others being bearers. Gooseberries and currants must be trim med with a bold hand, to allow free access of sun and air ; keep only the wood of one or two years, Raspberries be looked.
to, cutting away all but the young shoots; these should be shortened about one third of their length. You may now set out the cuttings from gooseberries and currants, and the young shoots of rasp berries ; plant at least four feet asunder every way, else your fruit will be small, and deficient in flavour : choose an open situation and a free soil.
You must now prepare ground for plan tations of fruit-trees, choosing good situa tions ; your wall and espalier trees ought to have ample room, not less than twenty feet asunder ; in a few years they will co ver well, and bear rich crops ; standards ought to be full forty feet apart : if the weather proves severe, defer this work until it mode rates, and look well to your old trees, covering their roots with litter, and supporting newly-planted standards with stakes, leaning on hay-bands, so as not to injure the bark. Prune old stand
ards, and begin the forcing of hot-house plants by closing well up, and keeping a temperature of from seventy-five to eigh ty degrees, Fahrenheit. As the fruit be gins to ripen, allow water in moderation. Your strawberries will particularly come under notice in the forcing time ; and all the potted plants must be placed in hot. beds for that purpose.
In your Flower-garden, see that the au riculas, carnations, hyacinths, and tulips, be well sheltered from inclement wea ther. You may now plant tulips, anemo nes, ranunculuses, crocuses, jonquils, nar. cissuses, hyacinths, and all other bulbs ; or you may set the roots on mantle and chimney-pieces, on glasses filled with water. Let all your perennial fibrous rooted plants, such as double wall-flowers, double stocks, double sweet-williams, chrysanthemums, &c. &c. that are in pots, or under frames, be carefully attended to. Cover seedlings and tender plants, not omitting to give air in mild weather. You should now prune and dig between your powering shrubs; and may plant out roses, honeysuckles, lilacs, laburnums, privets, jasmines, and a great variety of the hardy class, observing to arrange them taste fully, according to their colours, foliage, Etc. and setting those which are tallest, when full grown, in the back part, where by you will not obscure the lesser kinds. All hardy shrubs may now be propagated by layers ; and suckers may be removed from roses, syringas, aspirzeas, lilacs, &c. into rows, where they should stand for about two years, and then be set out to where they are to remain ; cuttings of hardy deciduous shrubs will now proceed.
Trim your grass-walks and lawns, throw ing down worm-casts, and rolling with a wooden roller. You may at this season pare and ,lay turf. In thy weather, lay down and roll the gravel-walks that were ridged ; plant thrift and box edgings, if not done in October or Noverrnber. Fo rest and ornamental trees should now be planted on dry soils ; these should, pro perly, be of the hardy kinds. Hedges may be planted or plashed.
In the Nursery. Transplant and prune your forest-trees, particularly those that are deciduous, if the weather admits ; fur ever-greens the weather must be settled ; prune and transplant flowering shrubs ; plant fruit-tree stocks, and prepare for extensive plantings and sowings ; in fros ty weather carry clung, &c. losing no time; take great care of young and seedling trees ; propagate by cuttings In the Ifst-house. Your pines will re quire great care ; you may also raise kid ney beans, cucumbers, strawberries, &c. and have abundance of flowering plants therein.