_Kitchen Garden._--Sow main crop of beet in the first week, small
salads every week, radishes and lettuces thrice, spinach once a
fortnight, carrots and onions for late drawing, kidney-beans in the
first week and together with scarlet runners in the last fortnight;
endive for an early crop; also peas and Longpod and Windsor beans,
cauliflowers, Early York or Little Pixie cabbages, Brussels sprouts,
borecole, broccoli, savoys and kale for late crops. Sow vegetable
marrows and hardy cucumbers on a warm border in the last week; sow
cardoons in trenches, or (in the north) in pots under glass shelter;
sow chicory for salading. Continue hoeing and earthing up the several
crops.
_Fruit Garden._--Disbud peaches, nectarines and other early trees
against the walls; also attend to the thinning of fruit. Give
occasional washings with the engine to keep down insects. Pick
caterpillars from gooseberries and wall trees on their first
appearance. Remove from raspberries and strawberries all suckers and
runners that are not wanted.
_Forcing._--Plant melons and cucumbers on the hotbeds prepared for
vegetables in February, and now free. Plant out vegetable marrows and
pumpkins on dung-ridges, under hand-glasses. Sow late crops of
cucumbers and melons.
_Plant Houses._--Turn out hardy plants about the middle, and the more
tender at the latter end of the month. Sow tender annuals for
succession, potting and shifting those sown at an earlier period; sow
cinerarias for succession; and a few hardy annuals and ten-week stock,
&c., for late crops. Pot off all rooted cuttings. Put in cuttings of
the different desirable species which are now fit for that purpose.
Plant out in rich soil Richardias, to be potted up in autumn for
flowering. Bedding plants should be placed to harden in sheltered
positions out of doors towards end of month. Towards the end of the
month many of the main stock of chrysanthemums will be ready for the
final potting.
_Flower Garden._--Sow annuals for succession in the last week, also
biennials and perennials in the nursery compartment, for planting out
next year. Propagate plants of which more stock is required either by
cuttings or by dividing the roots. Plant out, during the last week,
dahlias, hardy pelargoniums, stocks and calceolarias, protecting the
dahlias from slight frosts. By the end of the month, masses of the
following plants may be formed with safety in warm
localities:--pelargonium, heliotropium, fuchsia, petunia,
nierembergia, salvia, verbena, bouvardia and lobelia. Protect tulips,
ranunculuses and anemones from the mid-day sun, and from rains and
winds. Remove the coverings from all tender plants in the open air.
_Shrubbery._--Transplant all kinds of evergreens, this month and
September being the proper seasons. The rarer conifers should be
planted now and in June, after they have commenced to grow. Proceed
with the laying down of lawns and gravel-walks, and keep the former
regularly mown.