The Gentleman and Gardener's Kalendar; Containing Ample Directions for the Cultivation of the Kitchen and Flower Garden, Green House, Nursery, Orchard, &C. for the United States of America (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GENTLEMAN ft GARDENER- laTCHEN GARDEN. In such parts of the union, where the ground ir not at this time bound up with frost, continue to dig the waste quarters of your kitchen garden, first giving them such manure as they require; laying them in high sloping ridges, to sweeten and be improved by the frost, and more especially, if the soil be of a stiff nature: by which method, its adhesion of air, frost, rain and dews, all of which abounding with nitrous salts, contribute, in a high degree, towards its melioration and fertility; and, besides, a great quantity of ground thus prepared, can be, soon levelled in the spring for sowing or planting; which, if neglected, would require much time to dig in a proper manner, and that at a period, when the throng of business requires every advantage of previous preparation. When the ground at this time is frozen so hard as not to be dug, wJiich is generally the case in the middle and eastern States, you may carry manureinto the different quarters and spread it, repair fences, rub out and clean your seeds, prepare shreds, nails, and twigs, for the wall and espalier trees, which are to be pruned in this and the next mouth; get all the garden tools in repair, and procure such as are wanted: provide from the woods a sufficient quan.lity of pea rods, and poles for your Lima and other running beans; dress and point them, so as to be ready for use when wanted. Here it may be well to remark, that many people who neglect to provide themselves with pea rods at this season, when the hurry of business overtakes them in spring, to sow their peas and let them frail on the ground; in which situation they will never produce, especially the tall growing kinds, one third as many as if they were properly rodded. The various kinds of...