The Gardeners Kalendar Author:Philip Miller Subtitle: Directing What Works Are Necessary to Be Performed Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, as Also in the Conservatory and Nursery: ... by Philip Miller, F.r.s. ... the Fifteenth Edition, With a List of the Medicinal Plants, ... to Which Is Prefixed, a Short Introduction to the Science of Botany, ... General Books pub... more »lication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1769 Original Publisher: printed for the author; and sold by J. and F. Rivington, H. Woodfall, J. Whiston, B. White, J. Hinton [and 11 others in London] Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MAR K i T c n E N- Garden. weather in this month is ge- nerally more unfettled than in any other month of the year; fome- times it proves dry and frofty, at other times cold and wet, with ftorms of hail and flrong winds, which makes a diligent attendance upon the hot-beds of Cucumbers and Melons abfolutely necefiary, otherwife they often mifcarry, or at leaft lofe all their firft crop of fruit; to avoid which, if your beds have very much declined 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 glafles clofe with mats every night; but in the day time they muft have frefh air, in proportion to the heat of the beds3 whenever the weather will permit, efpeciallyefpecially after the new dung is laid round the fides, which will often occafion a great fleam in the beds for fome days, which if pent in the frames will be very injurious to the plants, and frequently caufe the fruit to drop off. Sow the feeds of Cabbages, Savoys, and Red Cabbages, for next winter's ufe, on a bed of light earth in the open air, and plant oilt all your Cauliflower plan...« less