In the kitchen-garden renew the heat of your hot-beds with fresh dung, and continue to sow cucumbers and melons as in the former month. Make a large hot-bed for forward rhadishes and spring carrots; they may be sown together, because the rhadishes be drawn in _March_, whereby they will make room for the carrots. The bed must be cover’d with earth 7 or 8 inches thick, and defended with mats, supported with hoops. Make a hot-bed for _Battersey_ kidney-beans, and all sorts of annuals, except _African_ and _French_ marigold, which may be deferr’d 10 or 20 days. About the middle of the month, upon a declining hot-bed sow colly-flower seeds; also in the natural ground pease, beans, parsley, spinach, carrots, parsnips, turnips, onions, leeks, _Dutch_ brown lettuce, and asparagus-seeds. Sow skerrits in light rich ground, where they may have moisture. Plant garlick, shalots, and rockambole, for increase, in light ground. Transplant young cabbage-plants for a crop. Make plantations of straw-berries, rasberries, goose-berries, currants, and roses. Elm-setts should now be gather’d from the roots of large trees, and planted in nursery-beds, and young plantations should be now provided with all sorts of forest-trees and shrubs, which are propagated from slips or layers. Set acorns of the _Ilex_, cork-tree, _English_ oak, chestnuts, and walnuts. Sow the sameria of the elm, and bay berries, all which come up the first year. Lay branches of several trees to take root. This is the best time to raise any thing that will grow of slips. Prune fruit-trees and vines; for now is your season to bind, plash, nail, and dress, without danger of frosts. This is to be understood of the most tender and delicate wall-fruits not finish’d before: do this before the buds and bearers grow turgid; and yet in the nectarine and like delicate mural fruit, the later the better, notwithstanding what has been, and still is the contrary custom. The latter end of this month is most proper to graft pears and plums of all sorts; and some likewise graft apples and cherries in the cleft, tho’ others defer apples longer. The cyons cut off from the trees last month, are now to be used, without having any regard to the notion of the age of the moon. Now, as well as in _October_, may be planted the espaliers of pears, plums, or apples, so useful as well as profitable in a garden; for being planted a convenient distance from a fruit wall, they are an admirable defence against blighting winds, and produce noble fruit. Rub moss from trees after a shower of rain; scrape and cleanse them from cankers, _&c._ Cut and lay quick-sets, and trim up palasade hedges. Earth up the roots of uncover’d fruit-trees, and drain superfluous moisture from roots of trees. Lay bird-lime for the bird called the tit, or tit-mouse, which is a destructive enemy to dwarf pears and plums in this and the preceding month, by destroying the buds.