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The Complete Gardener: containing obfervations on every month in the year, for planting, sowing, &c.
January.
PLant vines and lay them for increase, and plant apple and pear-trees, and all sorts of wall fruits; if the weather be open trim wall trees, cut and nail them. Set and sow kernals and stones, in this and the next months, breaking only the stones, o(illegible text) shells, and sow, only the kernel; set beans and pease out, set, and lay all quick sets and roses; all these may be done also the next month.
February—Now is a very good time for grafting the forward sort of fruit trees: If the weather be temperate, sow hardy seeds, as pease, beans radishes, parsnips, carrots, onions, parsley, spinnage: make up hot beds for onions, cucumbers, and such like: Lay branches of vines, roses, wood (illegible text)nes, jessamines, lauriestinus, phileroy, pyracutha, &ct. plant goose-berries, currants, raspberries, and begin to plant herd herbs towards the latter end of the month: transplant cabbage and colliflowers, and sow asparagus.
March—This is the principal month for grafting all forts of fruit-trees, transplant all sorts of hardy herbs and flowers, make up hot-beds for cucumbers, melons, coliflowers, to come late, the Russian cabbage, and tender flower-seeds, as amarants of all sorts, African, marvail of Paris, &ct. sow most sorts of garden seeds, as endive, succory, leeks, raddish, beets, parsnips, skirrets, parsley, sorrels
