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Show 12 KALENDARIUM HORTENSE. KALENDARIUM HORTENSE. seeod a Sn$ ae 9 MARCH fets--05°-41™ ‘S Days To be done In the Orchard, and Olitory-Garden. &Xxi, Prong. Tin 23h sin} rifes-06'=19" fets-0§ --41 Now is your chiefeft and befttime for raifing on the Hot-bed Melons, Cxcunbers, Gourds, ec. which aboutthe fixth, eighth, or tenth daywill be ready for the Seeds; and eight days after prick them forth at difta Nees, accord= ing to the Method, &c. If you will have them deter, begin again in ten or twelve daysafter the firft; and fo a thirdtime to make Experiments, Remember to preferve the Hot-bed as much as poffible from Rain ; for cool him you may eafily if too this Month, Sow Pine-Rernels, Firr-feeds, Bays, Alaternus, Philyrea, and moftperennial Greens, &c, Or you mayftay till fomewhat /ater in the Month. Sow Auricula-feeds in pots or cafes, in fine willow earth, alittle loamy 3 and place whatyou fow'd in Seprember (whichis the more proper Seafoh) nowin thefhade, and waterit. Plant fome Anemony roots to bear late, and fucceffively ; efpecially in, and about London, where the Smoak is any thing tolerable$ andif the Seafonbe very dry, water them well once in two or three days, as likewife Ranunculus’s, Fibrous roots may be tranfplanted about the middle of this Month; fuch as Hepati~ ca’s, Primrofes, Auricula’s, Cammomile, Hyacinth Tuberofe, Matricaria, Gentianells, Helebore and other Sume aer Flowers 5 Set Leucoium Slip the Keris or Wall-flower 5 and towards the end, Lupines, Convoluulas’s, pio or ofdinary Fafmine; Youmay nowa little after the Aquinox, prune Pine and Fir-trees : Sce Now alfo plant Peaches and Neéarines, but cut not off the top-roots, as yeptemb, Towards themiddle, or latter end of March fow on the Hot-bed fachPlants as are late bearing Flowers or Fruit in our Climate; as Balfamine, and Balfamum mas; Pomum Amoris, Datura, Zithiopic Apples, fome choice Aimaranthus, Dadlyls, Geraniums, Hedyfarum Clypeatum, Humble, and Senfitive Plants, Lentifcus, Myrtle-lerries (fteep’d awhile), Capficum Indicum, Canna Indica, Flos Africanus, Mirabile Peruian : Nafture ttum Ind: Indian Phafeoli, Volubilis, Myrrh, Carrobs, Marococ, five Flos Paffienis, and the like rare, and exotic Plants whichare brought us from hot Countries, Note, that the Nafturtinm Ind. African Marygolds, Volubilis, and fome others, will come (though not altogether fo forwards)in the Cold-bed without Ars : But the reff require much, and conftant beat, and therefore feveral Hot-beds, *till the common earth be very warm by the advanceof the Sun, to bring them to adue ftature, and perfea their Seeds : Therefore your choiceft Amaranthus beingrifen pretty high, remove them into another temperate Hot-bed ; the fame you may de with your African, and Senfitive Plants, efpecially, which always keep under Glaffes. About the expiration of this Month carry into the fhade {uch Auriculas, Seedlings, or Plants as are for Take off the Littier from your Kirnel-beds 5 fee Odob. or you may forbear till 4pril. i: see may as yet Cut Quick-fets, and cover fuch Tree-reotsas you laid bare in HbuvzN, It were profitable now alfoto top your Rofe-trees a little with your Knife, neera leaf-bud, and to prune off the dead and withered branches, keeping them lower than the cuftomis, and toa fingle Stem. Slip, and fet Sage, Rofemary, Lavender, Thyme, &c. Sowin the beginning Endive, Succory, Leeks, Radifb, Beets, Chard-Beet Scorzonera, Par{nips, Skerrets, Parfley, Sorrel, Buglof+, Borrage, Chervil, Sellery, Smalladge, Alifanders, @»c: Several of which continue many years without renewing, and aremoft of them to be blamch'd by laying them under littier and earthing up. Sow alfo Lettuce, Onions, 4 Garlick, Orach, Purflan, Tarneps (to ha ve earl epncly Peafe, @vc, thefe annually. ; : E Ra ” ran{plant the Beet-chard which you fowed in Aygu ple Chards. their choicenefs referved in Pots, Tranfplant allo Carnation feedlings, giving your Layers freth earth,andfetting them in thefhade for a week ; then likewife cut off all thefick and infedted /eaves; for now you may fet your choice ones out of Coe verts as directed in February, Now do the farewel-frofts, and Eafterlj- winds prejudice your choiceft Tulips, and {por them ; therefore cover fuch with Mats or Canvas to prevent freckles, and fometimes deftruction. The fame care have of your moft precious Anemonies, Auricnla’s, Chama-iris, Brumal Facynths, early Cyclamen, &c. Wrap your fhorn Cyprefs tops with ftrawwifps, if the Eaftern blafts prove very tedious 5 and forget not to cover with dryfrraw, or Peafe-hame, your young expofed Ever-greens as yet Seedlings 3 {uch as Firr, Pine, Phillyrea, Bays, Cyprefs,&c. till they have pats’d two or three years inthe Nurfery, and are fit tobe tranfplanted; for the tharp Eafterly and Northerly winds tranfpierce, anddry them up. Let thisalfo caution you uponall fuch extremities of weather, during the whole Winter ; but be mindful to uncover them in all benigne, and tolerable feafons and inrermiffions ; it being thefe acute Winds, and feldom, or never the hardeft Frofts, or Snows which do the mifchief. About the end nncover even your choicer Plants, but with Caution; forthe tail of the Frofis yet continuing, and fharp Winds, with the fudden darting heat of the Sun, (corch and de~ firoy them in a moment: andin fuch weather neitherfow, nor tranfplant. Sow Stock gilly- flower feeds in'the Full, to produce doubleflowers. Nowmayyou fet your Oranges, Lemmons, Myrtles, Oleanders, Lentifes, Dates, Aloes, Amomums, andlike tender Trees and Plantsinthe Portico, or with the windows, and doors of the Green-houfes and Confervato~ Rest to.desyp amet ans Sow alfo arrots Cabbages, Creffes, Fennel, Majoran, Balil.Tob : ries open for eight or ten days before April,ot earlier, ifthe Seafon invite (that is, if the fharp winds be paft) to acquaint chem gradually with the Air; I fay, gradually, and carefully ; for this changé is the moft Critical of the whole year; truft not therefore the Nightstoo confidently, unlefs the weather be thorowly fetled : Nowis alfo your Seafon to raife Stocks to bud Oranges and Lemmons on, by fowing the Seeds; and fome of the hardieft Ever-greens may be tran{planted, efpecially, if the weather be moift and temperate, Laftly, Bring in materials for the Birds im the Aviary to build their Nefts withal. Flowers in Primie, and yet lafting. Apples. fee Ducket, [ Doucet] Pepins, Reincting, Lones Pearmain, Winter PearJ maix, Jobn Apple, &c. « Pears. Later Bon-€hreflien, Double Bloffom Pear, &c, flongan-a and in a momentproffratea whole years labour, you do of other Trees; for ‘twill much prejudice them: Prune laft years time your Bees fits keep Pp them clofe seeattes prove Ni ofe Night and Morning, ing, if théthe if Turn your Frait in the Room whereit lies,but open not yet the windows. Fruits in Prime, or yct lafting. xxxe Plant Box, &c, inParterres!: Sow Pinks, Sweet-williams, and Carnations, from themiddle to the end of Graff all this A¢oneth, beginning with Pears, and ending with Apples, unlefs the Spring prove extraordinary forwards. Recs : Alfo may es now tranfplant Afparagus roots tomake new Beds y this Hath Days Take, and bind up your weakeft Plants and Flowers againft the Winds, before they come too fierdlly, violent, but notgiveit a competent heatifit be fpent, without new-making, feanpient ep, fort of Medicinal Herbs. og? ee ee lid-March drefs efsup, up, and {tring your Strawherry-bed Afparagus, {preading and loofning the Mould abouty-beds, and uncover you them, for their more rfc ; In the Parterre, and Flower-Garden. moift places. q ie MARCH To be done X 7 Et Stercoration is {eafonable, and you may plant what Trees are left, L_ though it be fomething of the lateft, unlefs in very backward, or Grafs, and cut off the beads of your budded-fiocks. } ty : Nemonies, Spring Cyclamen, Winter Aconite, Crocus, Bellu, white and black Hellcber, fingle and double Hepatica, Leucoton, Chame-iris ofall colours, Dens Caninus, Violets, Fritillaria, Chelidonium {mall with double Flowers, Hermodadtyls, Tuberous Iris, Hyacinth Zeboin, Brumal, Oriental, (yc. Funguils, great Chalic’d, Dutch Mezereon, Perfian Iris, Auricula’s, Narciffs wich large tufts, common, double and fingle. Primrofes, Pracoce Tulips, Spani(h Trumpets or Funquilles; Violets, yellow Dutch Violets, Ornithogalam max: alb : Crown Imperial, Grape Flowers, Almonds and Peach bloffouis, Rabus oderatus, Arbor Fude, ke, ‘ FR rs * |