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24 THE MONTHLY
GARDEN WORK IN MARCH.
Make small hot-beds for raising cucumbers and melon
plants. Plant some early potatoes on a warm sheltered
situation, covering them in frosty evenings with litter of
pease straw. About the middle, sow brocoli, cabbages
savoys, asparagus, and onions; also cauliflower, leeks
carrots, turnips, &c. and pease and beans every fortnight
for a succession. Plant out cabbages and savoys, arti-
chokes and asparagus. Sow all kinds of hardy annual
flower seeds in the open ground, and the tender kinds is
a moderate hot-bed in pots. Finish planting fruit and
forest trees. Plant gooseberries, currants, strawberries
and raspberries. Transplant all kinds of sweet herbs
also perennial fibrous-rooted and herbaceous plants, and
evergreens. Make box edgings.
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P R O V E R B S O N T H E W E A T H E R.
If red the sun begins his race
Expect that rain will fall apace.
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The evening red, the morning gray,
Are certain signs of a fair day.
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If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way,
No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.
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In the waning of the moon,
A cloudy morn--fair afternoon.
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When clouds appear like rocks and towers,
The earth's refresh'd by frequent showers.
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MARCH, Ist. ho. m. MARCH, 31st. ho. m.
Day breaks.... 4 43 Day breaks..... 3 3
Sun rises,.... 6 35 Sun rises,..... 5 3
--- sets,..... 7 17 --- sets....... 8 2
Twilight ends,.7 17 Twilight ends,. 8 2
