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The Complete Gardener: containing obfervations on every month in the year, for planting, sowing, &c.

January.

Lant vines and lay them for increase, and plant apple and pear-trees, and all sorts of wall fruits; if the weather be open trim wall trees, cut and nail them. Set and sow kernals and stones, in this and the next months, breaking only the stones, o shells, and sow, only the kernel; set beans and pease out, set, and lay all quick sets and roses; all these may be done also 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, spinnage: make up hot beds for onions, cucumbers, and such like: Lay branches of vines, roses, wood nes, jessamines, lauriestinus, phileroy, pyracutha, &ct. plant goose-berries, currants, raspberries, and begin to plant herd herbs towards the latter end of the month: transplant cabbage and colliflowers, and sow asparagus.

March—This is the principal month for grafting all forts of fruit-trees, transplant all sorts of hardy herbs and flowers, make up hot-beds for cucumbers, melons, coliflowers, to come late, the Russian cabbage, and tender flower-seeds, as amarants of all sorts, African, marvail of Paris, &ct. sow most sorts of garden seeds, as endive, succory, leeks, raddish, beets, parsnips, skirrets, parsley, sorrels