March. THE GARDENER’S KALENDAR.

to advantage, will, if they stand too close together, bedestroyed.

Transplant Box.

If box be wanted for edgings, borders, or to supplyRaps in edgings formerly made, it may be safely planted’,in mild weather, any time this month ; it will take rootreadily, and there is no fear of success.

Dress Auricula Plants.

The choicest forts of auricula plants in pots must nowbe treated with more than ordinary care, as their flower-buds will soon begin to appear ; the plants must there-fore be carefully defended from frost and cold heavyrains, by covering them with canvas, mats, or glasses.But remember to let them be entirely uncovered everymild and dry day.

They mustalfo.be carefully dressed ; and if some freshearth were not added last month, let it be done now, andthe sooner the better.

Tulips , Hyacinths , Ac.

Let the beds of ttilips, hyacinths, anemonies, andranunculuses, be carefully defended from frosts andheavy rains; and those in which the choicest sorts areplanted, be now, unless done before, arched over withboops, and covered with mats or canvas, in frosty andextreme wet weather.

Prune Flowering Shrubs.

You must now finish your work of pruning floweringshrubs and evergreens.

Observe, in doing this work, to cut all the dead

wood, and either to shorten or cut off close all stragglingirregular branches, and those which interfere with othershrubs for every shrub shows itself to the greatest ad*vantage, when it is clear of any other.

When the pruning is finished, and the cuttings clearedaway, let the ground he neatly dug between and aboutthe plants, observing to take off all suckers arising from,the roots.

Dress the Borders , Beds t 8cc.

A11 flower-borders and beds in general, should nowbe thoroughly cleaned from weeds, and every kind oflitter. Let therefore the surface of the beds and bor-ders be carefully loosened with a hoe in a dry day, andneatly raked. This will give the whole an air of liveli-ness, which is always very pleasing to the eye.

Mow Grafs-Walks and Lawns .

One necessary requisite in rendering grafs-walks andlawns beautiful is neatness. The season for mowingthem now begins to approach; let them therefore bepolled and rolled once or twice every week. A woodenroller is best to take up the worm casts ; but when theseare taken away, the walk should be rolled with an iron.or stone roller, in order to render the bottom firm, andthe surface smooth and even.

Turf.

You may, any time this month, lay turf, where it iswanted, either to make new, or mend old walks. Ob-serve to beat it well, and roll it with a heavy roller now;and then, in order to make it firm and even ; and it wiltgrow freely with very little trouble.

MARCH.

Work to be done in the Kitchen-Gardenin March.

Cucumbers and Melons.

E very careful to examine frequently the state ofyour cucumber and melon hot-beds, with regard tome degree of heat; for it must be both lively and mo-.

to preserve the plants in a state of free growth." l his be. properly regulated, the plants will shew aplenty of fruit, which will grow to a handsome size.

b you find the heat too faint, let a lining of freshborse-cJung be applied either to the back or front sides ofme bed ; but if the heat be not much declined, a liningP n one fide.will be sufficient at a time ; but let the otheroe lined about ten or twelve days after. Let the linings., c *ghteen or twenty inches thick, and raised about1Ve or six inches up the frame. The top must be co-Ver ed with earth about two inches thick, to keep downthe steam.

Remember to let the plants have fresh air every day,? nc ! t0 raise the glasses in proportion to the heat of the-’ and the warmnefs of the weather.

.. Eet a bottle or two of water be kept always in theairi£ « to be ia readiness to refreflt the plants now and 1

then. . The best time for doing this is from ten to twoo'clock in a mild funny day ; but let it always be donemoderately.

The glasses should be covered every night with mats,and uncovered in the morning about an hour and a halfafter the fun. -

borne feeds of cucumbers and mesons should be sownat three different times this month, viz. at the beginning,'middle, and latter end, that a continual succession ofplants may always be in readiness, either to plant intonew beds, or to supply the place of such as may fail inothers.

At the beginning of this month you should make hot-beds for planting out the cucumber and melon plantsthat were sown in January.-

It has already been observed, that the success wi'l, ina great measure, depend upon the due preparation of thedung, before it is made into a bed. Let the lied beabout three feet high ; the dung beaten down well withthe fork, when laid on the bed, but not trodden : whenthe bed is finished, put on the frame and lights, and letit be managed in every respect as before directed inthe former month. The fame directions will also besufficient for managing the plants, whether cucumbersor melons.

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