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 of this perfect shadow, (the diameter is about 3000 miles) do use the whole light of the sun, which has caused such darkness, that the stars have appeared at noon-day, and so dreadful, that the birds have fallen to the ground.

January. PLANT vines, and lay them for increase; the apple and pear-trees, and all sort of wall trees; if the weather be open, trim wall fruit trees, cut and nail them; set and sow kernels and stones, in this and the next month, breaking only the stones or shells, and sow only the kernel; sow beans and pease, cut, set, and lay quicksets and roses; all these may be done also in the next month.

February. Now is a very good time for grafting the forward sort of fruit trees; if the weather be temperate, sow hardy seeds, as pease, beans, radishes, parsnips, carrots, onions, parsley, spinage, make up hot beds for melons, cucumbers, and such like; lay branches of vines, roses, woodbines, jessamines, lutestines, philleory, pyracuth, &c. Plant gooseberries, currants, raspberries and begin to plant hardy herbs towards the latter end of this month; transplant cabbage, colliflowers, and sow asparagus.

March. This is the principal month for grafting all sorts of fruit-trees, transplanting all sorts of hardy herbs and flovers, make up hot-beds for cucumbers, melons, colliflowers, to come late, to Russia cabbage and tender flower seeds, as amaranths of all sorts, and garden-seed, marvil, of Pern, &c. Sow most sort of garden-seed, as endevo, succor, leeks, radish, beets, parsnips, skirrets, parsley, sorrel buggloss, hurrage; chervill, cellery, lettice, onions, orice, purstin, carrots, cresses, spinseeds; likewise turnips in this or the next month to have them early. This is the principal month for sowing seeds, and planting