Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-03-12

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drill IN your peas tolerably thick, cover and
pat the earth down. To ensure continu-
ous supply, drill more in every week or ten
days during the month.
Cobbage and other plants in your hot bed
must be aired every good day, in the middle
Of the day.
About the 20lh Of this month such plants
as are large enough may be transplaned
ont in the open ground where they are to
stand.
Beans.- Bunch beans of sorts may now
be planted.
Radishes.-Prepare bed and sow radish
seed
Spinach.-Manure, dig, and rake bed
and sow some spinach seed, ,hinly in drills
II inches apart.
Carrots, Parsnips, Beets. Select a good
warm bed, manure it, dig it up and rake
II, and drill in a few rows of each of the
above roots. The manure should be well
rotted, and the ground deep light mould,
which must be dug foil spade deep.
Small Sallading, Of all kinds, should, a,
intervals Of week, be sown.
Celery.-PrepaIe bed and sow celery
seed.
Siberian Kaze.-P,epare bed and sow
small patch Of this for sprouts.
Asparagus beds-New beds Of asparagus
should now be planted ont, and the old ones
manured and dressed with we'll roled ma
nure, ashes, and salt
Soring asparagus Seed. - Asparagus
seed should be sown early this month.
n,,fo had r.
ions bv manuring well with compost form
ed Of parts manure aud Of ashes dig ii
in and rake, then form it into beds feet
wide with alleys between II or IS inches
wide for the convenience Of weeding-draw
drills l inch deep, II inches apart, drill in
your seed, cover and press down the earth
with the back of the rake. When the on
ions come up, thin them out as to stand
4 inches apart, water them well in dry wea-
,her, and they will be good onions in Au-
gust, provided you keep them clean, and
don't hill the bulbs. Frequent wa,erings
greatly increase their growth. A watering
with SCOT, occasionally will do them much
good.
Pot HerJs-.Medicinal Herbs, Of all
kinds should now be planted out, or the seed
sown.
.Ariichokes.-As soon as the weather is
is settled, uncover your old arlichoke beds,
and form new ones.
Red Peppcrs.-Sow the seed of these on
warm border.
Planting out Ca65ages, Bects, Sc.-se'
out these for seed.
Potatoes.-Y ou cannot get in your early
potatoes too soon after the fros! is out of
the ground For the mode of culture, we
refer to our article on this subject under the
head of work on The farm.
Early Turnips.-Prepare a bed accord
ing to our directions in the work on the
farm, and sow some turnip seed. The Ear
ly Fiat Dutch is the best kind for culture
al this season.
Horse Radish-Select a moist bed, ma
nure, dig and rake it, and set out bed of
this most excellent condiment.
RhubarJ.-N is the time to set out
plants, or sow seed.
Garden Fruit Trees should, if they need
it, be pruned early this month, fig trees as
well as the rest, and otherwise treated as
advised for orchard trees.
Fruit trees and Towering shrubs may be
planted any any time this month.
Gooseberrics and CurrantS. S.-Prune these
the beginning of the month; new plantations
should be made early !; cuttings should be
forthwith set out.
Raspberries.-Prune and tie up your
raspberry bushes, and transplant the suckers.
Fruits Of all kinds, whether trees or shrubs,
ought to receive dressing of manure.
Strawberries your strawberry beds
have not been cleaned, clean them without
farther delay, spread some well rot,ed dung
between the rows, dig it in, rake and spread
thereon either straw or tan. Then strew
ashes over the bed.
In times Of drought, water freely, holding
the nozzle of The watering pot down to the
ground. so as not to wet the flowers, and a
luxurian, bed of strawberries will reward
your labor.
In concluding our hints for the month,
we tender the homage of our respect to the
fair ladies whose province II Is TO direct IN
this department, and beg permission to ex-
press the hope, that each garden under their
respective management, may be, as 1t ought
to be, to their several homes, the ornament
and pride Of the nelghbood. And before we
close we would respectfully suggest, that II
their several gardens are not already sup
piled with them, to have planted sufbclen-
cy of Gooseberry and Currant bushes, kasp-
berries, Straw wberries, and Grape vines, TO
supply their families and friends with these
delicious and heallhlul fruits. And while
providing these luxuries FIR the table, t"
crafty the appetite, not to forget, that gar
den is incomplete in its arrangements, unless
the sides of It's walks be in,erspersed with
flow ering and Other shrubs, and It's borders
be adorned with flowers.