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 24           THE MONTHLY GARDEN WORK IN MARCH.

Make small hot-beds for raising cucumbers and melon plants. Plant some early potatoes on a warm sheltered situation, covering them in frosty evenings with litter of       pease straw. About the middle, sow brocoli, cabbages savoys, asparagus, and onions; also cauliflower, leeks carrots, turnips, &c. and pease and beans every fortnight for a succession. Plant out cabbages and savoys, arti- chokes and asparagus. Sow all kinds of hardy annual flower seeds in the open ground, and the tender kinds is       a moderate hot-bed in pots. Finish planting fruit and forest trees. Plant gooseberries, currants, strawberries and raspberries. Transplant all kinds of sweet herbs also perennial fibrous-rooted and herbaceous plants, and evergreens. Make box edgings.

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P R O V E R B S O N  T H E  W E A T H E R.

If red the sun begins his race Expect that rain will fall apace. -             The evening red, the morning gray, Are certain signs of a fair day. -             If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way, No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day. -             In the waning of the moon, A cloudy morn--fair afternoon. -             When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refresh'd by frequent showers. -           MARCH, Ist. ho. m.            MARCH, 31st. ho. m.        Day breaks.... 4   43          Day breaks..... 3  3         Sun rises,.... 6   35          Sun rises,..... 5  3         --- sets,..... 7   17          --- sets....... 8  2         Twilight ends,.7   17          Twilight ends,. 8  2