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* month) is to be fown in pots of light earth, and cover¬
ed about a quarter of an inch with fine mould in this
month; and the gentle heat of a hot bed will greatly
affilt the germination of the feeds, which are to be fre¬
quently fprinkled with pond-water as they come up.
The layers of the arbutus are made of the moll tender
(hoots about September ; but will not be ftrong enough to
t anfplant the Ipring following, though they will take
root in a year’s time.
The apocynum, or dog’s-bane, is propagated from feeds
fown this month in hot-beds, or from cuttings; a light
natural foil agrees bell with them; they Ihould be water¬
ed but feldom, and then gently; and they (hould be fet
in the hot houfe fooner or later, as they are more or lefs
tender.
Set the Hone of the fruit of the palm-tree this month
in light earth, and give them the affillance of the hot¬
bed ; it is a green-houfe plant, but might be made to
Hand abroad, after Iheltering for three or four years.
The green privet, which is a plant of a quick growth,
and makes an admirable hedge, is propagated by fowing
the berries in light earth, about an inch deep, watering
them frequently till they come up; a hot gravelly foil is
the molt proper for this tree; and they are to be tranf-
planted from the feed-bed the fecond year after fowing.
The mezeron, Ihould now be fown in a loamy foil, and
care Ihould be taken to preferve it from the birds.
The berries of the juniper-tree may be fown this month
in rich ground without watering, or in any light manure,
and in about two months they will come up; and they are
to remain in the feed-bed two years, during which time
they mult be kept free from weeds, and then they may
be tranfplanted.
You may now take off the fuckers of the fpirxa fru-
tex, and plant them in a light foil.
Sow the feeds of the feveral kinds of firs ornamental
in wildernefs-works, which will flourilh in any foil; in
order to keep their bodies fmooth and free from knots,
you mull break off their collateral buds while they are
young and tender.
Upon the hot-bed, fow. fuch exotic feeds as are lefs'
tender, and arrive fooner at perfection than thofe fown the
kit month ; among which are the China or Indian pink,
the najhirtium Indicttm, convolvulus, and balfamines ;
and none of thefe mull be planted in the natural ground
till the middle of May: if you have no hot-bed, you
may defer.growing the marvel of Peru and the najlurii-
um till the next month, when they will come up in the
natural ground,
Plant tube-rofes in pots of frelh earth, giving them a
gentle warmth, but no water till they fprout out of the
ground.
The feeds-of the campanula pyramidalis - Ihould now
be fown, and flips taken off from the roots; frelh air'
Ihould be given to the pots of this flower, and they
Ihould be fet in fome pit where the funmay come at them,
by.which means they will grow tall.
Mend and repair your Ihelves and places of (belter for
auriculas, which Ihould now-be. guarded on all fides but
the call from the fun, and defended from rain; put can-
¥as coverings or matts over your :tulips, to prevent their
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being blighted; and tranfplant your carnation layers for
blowing, if they were not planted out in autumn.
The feeds of the humble and fenfitive plants may now
be fown upon the hot-beds,; and the noli me lungere in
the natural ground.
You may tranfplant your evergreens ;’ graft the
Spanilh white jeflamin upon the common.Englilh fort;
and flip or fet box for edgings, or in figured works.
Such exotic plants as have fuffered in the green-houfe,
(hould be removed to the hot-houfe ; where, to prevent
the fleam of the bed from being of bad confequence, the
dung Ihould be covered with a due thicknefs of earth.
Fruit-Garden.
You may make layers of the vine either in this or the
next month, and they will be fit to tranfplant at Micha¬
elmas; this tree is alfo propagated by laying down the
young branches as foon as the fruit is gathered, or by-
making plantations of cuttings at that time.
If the weather proves open in February, that is the
bell time for planting vines; and the foil in which they
bell fucceed is rocky or gravelly.
A chalky hill, lying very open to the fun, will pro¬
duce better grapes than any of the rich foils prepared
with horfe-dung; but a tolerable good comport, to mix
with the earth about the roots, may be made with the
rubbilh of old buildings.
In planting a vine, let the places where your vines are
to Hand be open and prepared before any of the plants
are taken out of the nurfery, when great care fhould be
taken in their removal; they are to be planted fix or fe-
ven feet every way, and the heft grapes for a vineyard
are the marlmorfe, chiante, claret grape, and Burgundy
black morellon.
Thefe vines are to be pruned the September before
tranfplanted, according to their ftrength, leaving: not
more than four buds on the ftrongell; and to cleanfe them
from weeds is all the care they will require the firrt fum-
mer.
Shorten the fummer-lhoots about the end of Septem¬
ber, and the rtrongeft of them will begin to drew a little
fruit the fummer following-.
In May or June of this fecond year, the fmall (hoots*
and fuperfluous branches are to be carefully broke off,
and two or three Ihoots only preferved on each vine,
which Ihould be fupported by flakes or poles, till the
September following, (fpr the nearer the grapes grow to
the ground, provided they do not touch it, the fweeter
they will be) and then they may be (hortened.
The vineyard, thus planted and managed, will, in five
or fix years time, ptoducea good crop of grapes.
The fig is raifed either from layers, feeds, or fuckers ;
the layers are ordered like thofe of the vine ; the feeds
are fown in rubbilh, or fuch like foil; and the fuckers are-
feparated from the old roots the beginning of this month, .
and tranfplanted without cutting.off their tops.
The fig tree thrives in the fame fort of foil as-the vine,
and may be planted either againft walls or in flan-
da rds.
The pruning of this, tree is very different from that