bulbs
that ripen early, which are the very things wanted for pickling. The
Queen and Paris Silver-skin are adapted for the purpose.

==Parsley== to be sown in quantity for summer and autumn supply; thin as
soon as up, to give each plant plenty of room.

==Peas== to be sown again for succession.

==Potato==.--Take the earliest opportunity of completing the planting of
main crops.

==Salsify==.--This delicious root, which is sometimes designated the
'Vegetable Oyster,' requires a piece of ground deeply trenched, with a
thick layer of manure at the bottom of the trench, and not a particle of
manure in the body of soil above it. The roots strike down into the
manure, and attain a good size combined with fine quality. If carelessly
grown, they become forked and fibrous, and are much wasted in the
cooking, besides being of inferior flavour. Sow in rows fifteen inches
apart, any time from the end of March to the beginning of May. Two
sowings will generally suffice.

==Spinach==.--Sow the Long-standing variety, which does not run so soon as
the ordinary kind. If a plantation of Spinach Beet has not been secured,
sow at once, as there is ample time yet for a free growth and a valuable
plant.

==Turnip== to be sown in quantity.

==Vegetable Marrow==.--An early sowing to be made in pots, in readiness
for planting out immediately weather admits of it. Three plants in a pot
are enough, and they must not be weakened by excessive heat.

==Winter Greens==.--A sowing of Borecole should be made, and if a supply
is required in spring, it will be well to sow again in the first week of
May.

==MAY==

High-Pressure times continue, for the heat increases daily, and the
season of production is already shortened by two months. The most
pressing business is to repair all losses, for even now, if affairs have
gone wrong, it is possible to get up a stock of Winter Greens, and to
sow all the sorts of seeds that should have been sown in March and
April, with a reasonable chance of profitable results. It must not be
expected, however, that the most brisk and skilful can overtake those
who have been doing well from the first dawn of spring, and who have not
omitted to sow a single seed at the proper time from the day when
seed-sowing became requisite. The heat of the earth is now sufficient to
start many seeds into growth that are customarily sown in heat a month
or two earlier; and, therefore, those who cannot make hot-beds may g