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 and slips. Sow pinks and carnations, gil1y flowers at the full moon, and the seed of winter-greens; plant out colliflowers and all sorts of cabbages, where they are to stand, and likewise carnation layers in the end of the next month. In this month also sow oats and barley.

April. You may graft some sorts of fruit-trees in the beginning of this month; sow all garden seeds in dry weather; and plant all sorts of garden herbs in wet weather. You may yet sow those sorts of seeds spoken of in March. Sow tender seeds, as sweet margorem, basil, pinks, carnations, hysop, thyme, savory and parsley, Dutch and English savoys. Set all sorts of winter greens in this and the former months, set sage and rosemary; sow lettice, spinage, cherville, and cresses one in three or four weeks, to have it young. Plant cucumbers, melons and artichokes. In this month also sow hemp and flax, plant hops, and open your bee-hives, and bark trees for tanners.

May. About the beginning, or within a fortnight under or over, sow French beans in fine mould; sow tender garden-seeds, as sweet marjorem, thyme and basil, Dutch and English savoys; plant out cucumbers and amuranthuses, &c. Of the hot bed take up tulips whose stalks are dry, sow purslin, set your stills to work, weed your hop gardens, cut off superfluous branches, moss trees, and weed gardens, and corn.

June. The beginning of this month, sow English and Dutch savoys, sow sallad-seeds for latter sallads. Take up your best anemonies tulips and ranunculies; sow turnip seed in this and the next month, and transplant those savoys that were sown the last month, plant slips of myrtles, shear your sheep the moon increasing.

July. This is the principal month to inoculate apricots, peaches, nectarines and roses. Prune your wall trees, lay gilly flowers and carnations, sow