The plants will rise in a week, but you should never keep them so hot as to steam the glasses. Sow successively, in case of accidents, to which this class are very subject. If the beds cool too much, lay fresh litter all around them; or, if practicable, rake out some of the old litter, and fill up with very fresh dung; avoiding much pressure. The outside dressing will require to be changed every fortnight, as the heat will in that time be greatly abated. When the plants have made two good shoots, exclusive of their first leaves, you may remove the pots, in which they were sown, to a larger bed, where they are to remain, stripping off such shoots just beyond their second joints. In such beds you may force asparagus, lettuce, small salading, love apples, radishes, and an infinite variety of vegetables for early use: this will, however, require extensive and numerous beds. 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 cabbages for summer use, and in all the varieties 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 cauliflowerplants that stand under glasses, should be clean picked from all decayed leaves, and be well weeded; give them air occasionally during 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 to, 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 also 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 apprehensive from slight frosts. Always loosen the whole tree before you begin to prune, so that you may remedy any defects, and be enabled to make a more perfect arrangement, 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 trimmed with a bold hand, to allow free access of sun and air; keep only the wood of one, or two years. Raspberries must 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 raspberries; 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 plantations of fruit-trees, choosing good situations; your wall and espalier trees ought to have ample room, not less than twenty feet asunder: in a few years, they will cover well, and bear rich crops; standards ought to be full forty feet apart: if the weather proves severe, defer this work until it moderates, 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 standards, and begin the forcing of hot-house plants, by closing well up, and keeping a temperature of from seventy-five to eighty degrees, Fahrenheit. As the fruit begins 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 auriculas, carnations, hyacinths, and tulips be well sheltered from inclement weather. You may now plant tulips, anemones, ranunculuses, crocuses, jonquils, narcissuses, hyacinths, and all other bulbs, or you may set the roots on mantle or 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 flowering shrubs; and may plant out roses, honeysuckles, lilacs, laburnums, privets, jasmines, and a great variety of the hardy class, observing to arrange them tastefully, according to their colours, foliage, &c., and setting those which are tallest, when full grown, in the back part, whereby you will not obscure the lesser kinds. All hardy shrubs may now be propagated by layers; and suckers may be removed from roses, syringas, spiræas, 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, throwing down worm-casts, and rolling with a wooden roller. You may at this season pare and lay turf. In dry weather, lay down and roll the gravel walks that were ridged; plant thrift and box edgings, if not done in Ootober or November. Fo

rest and ornamental trees should now be planted on dry soils; these should, properly, 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; for evergreens the weather must be settled; prune and transplant flowering shrubs; plant fruittree stocks, and prepare for extensive plantings and sowings; in frosty weather carry dung, &c., losing no time; take great care of young and seedling trees; propagate by cuttings.

In the Hot-house. Your pines will require great care; you may also raise kidneybeans, cucumbers, strawberries, &c., and have abundance of flowering plants therein.

FEBRUARY.

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, i. 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 have two rough leaves, not longer than a shilling; force asparagus in hot-beds, breaking off the shoots with your finger, avoiding to cut them; VOL. III.

kidney-beans, small salading, &c. may proceed, as shewn 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 sorts, spinach, 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.

Continue to prune

In the Fruit-garden. 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 primroses, violets, polyanthuses, &c; dress your auriculas, and sow their seed; also those of the polyanthus, in rich, light earth, very shallow; transplant your carnations, 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 intended form.

In the Hot-house. The pines will demand much assiduity; for an improper degree of heat will at this period injure them very considerably: keep up to 75 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 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 shew themselves. Fresh air must now and then be admitted, when the weather admits. Your strawT

berries, 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.

MARCH.

Kitchen-garden. Attend to your cucumbers and melons; you may now sow the seeds of the later sorts; such as the Smyrna, the long green, and long white Turkey 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 cauliflowers. Sow brocoli for an autumnal crop; also cabbages, some of which may now be transplanted. Sow savoys, and lettuces, also spinach, leeks, onions, borecole, radishes of sorts, carrots and parsnips, 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; earthup any that are grown sufficiently; sow turnips for a full crop, also celery, small salad, and all the tribe of medical and pot herbs; nasturtiums 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 require the same treatment; kidney-beans, potatoes, and Jerusalem artichokes, should not be omitted. Set slips of rosemary, rue, chives, mint; and let your garlick, scallions, cardoons, &c. now be committed to the soil.

In the Fruit-garden. Prune your fig-trees, and plant also where they are wanted; if your wall-fruit trees have not been trimmed, lose no time in attending to them; some will be in bloom, if the season favours; cover such with mats at night, to keep the frost from injuring them. Fruittrees 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 expedient 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 ripen. ing; the suggestion is assuredly ingenious, and merits trial. Dress your straw-berries

well, and run light wisps of straw at right angles under the foliage, so as to support the leaves, and to retain the moisture in the soil. Continue to force your early fruit, taking care to keep up fires every night.

In the Flower-garden. You will find ample 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 chrysanthems, auriculas, carnations, hyacinths, &c. will now demand, care, as will all your curious flowers. Now plant anemones, and ranunculuses, 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 deci duous 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 evergreens; weed the whole carefully, 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 general; sow the seeds of exotics, and of oranges for stocks.

In the Hot-house. Your pines will begin to shew fruit; therefore keep up the heat, water these plants frequently, and, in fa vourable days, admit a little air.

APRIL.

Kitchen-garden. Keep up your hot-beds for cucumbers and melons, allowing the young plants air daily; give water occasionally, 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 anthere of the male blossoms, this will insure an early crop, and should be done on the day the flowers first open; make hotbed ridges, to receive the plants intended to be set out under bell or hand glasses; sow melon and cucumber seeds for a late crop, plant out your lettuces, sow small salading, radishes, turnips, spinach, kidneybeans, brocoli, onions, leeks, cardoons, carrots, parsnips, pot-herbs, capsicums, love

apples, scorzonera, 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 vines, 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 June; 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 biossom, and must be amply watered; in very hot weather you must shade them, or they will soon pass off; carnations and polyan thuses 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 evergreens and flowering shrubs, propagate them; roll your grass-walks often, and, if too luxuriant, mow them; plant box and thrift edgings, put sticks to your flowering plants, roll your gravel-walks af ter turning them, and destroy weeds every where.

In the Nursery. Finish sowing evergreens, flowering-shrubs, and tree-seeds; water your seed-beds, transplant evergreens, 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 propagate by seeds and cuttings.

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 occasionally 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 exposed 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, pasnips, onions, for succeeding crops; taking care to weed and water those formerly sown : set out cabbages and savoys; screen your canliflowers from the sun, by bending in the leaves over the flowers, which will now be forming: water these plants well, making a trench, or bason, 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, &c. Support seeding plants, prick out celery, and sow some, also some radishes; thin your cardoons, and weed with diligence: if the weather proves dry, water liberally.

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 sin and air, but without scorching; thin your wall-fruit where too close or abundant; destroy snails, keep your borders clean, fumigate to kill small insects, 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 flowers by slips: preserve seedling bulbs from too great heat.

When your