The gardeners kalendar. Directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, as in the conservatory and nursery ... / by Philip Miller.

  • Philip Miller
Date:
1751
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Credit: The gardeners kalendar. Directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, as in the conservatory and nursery ... / by Philip Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 [ 6s ] MARCH. Work to he done in the Kitchen- Garden. H E weather In this month is ge«^ nerally more unfettled than in any other month of the year: fometimes it proves dry and frofty 5 at other times cold and wet^with ftorms of hail^and ftrong winds; which makes a dili¬ gent attendance upon the hot-beds of Cucum» bers and Melons abfolutely necelTary; other- wife they often mifcarry, or at leaft lofe all their firft crop of fruit: to avoid which, if , your beds have very much declin’d their heat, you fhould add a lining of new horfe-dung round the fides, which will renew the heat of the beds; and alfo obferve to cover the glaffes clofe with mats every night; but in F the