roots of fkirrtes, and plant them in rows ten inches afunder, and fix inches diftance in the rows; in dry weather water them; but these are feldom fo good. roots as thofe raised from feed. Large lettuce plants which have stood the winter must be planted out into a more open expofure; a few being left at a proper distance to furnish the table early in the feafon. Sow çilifia, cofs, imperial, and other lettuces, in an open rich spot of ground, to fucceed the laft fowing. About the middle of this month fork asparagus beds, being careful not to hurt the crown of the roots; defer raking them till the beginning of next month. The beginning of this month fow large rooted Dutch parfley, either in open beds or in drills a foot alunder; when they are come up, thin them three or four inches apart in the rows. The latter end of this month you may plant new afparagus beds if the ground be dry; if wet it will be better the beginning of next month. Radishes and fpinach fown in January, and the beginning of February fhould be hoed, leaving them five inches afunder; this should be done in dry weather. Make hot-beds for cucumbers, melons, purlane, &c. to fucceed thofe made the former month; the end of the month fow cucumber and melon feeds, to ridge out under bell or hand glasses for the principal crop. Sow feeds of Capsicum for pickling, alfo tomatos for foups upon a hot-bed; toward the end of the month, a few feeds of Indian crefs fhould be fown upon a very moderate hot-hed, to bring a few plants forward, where their flowers are wanted early. Drefs artichokes, leave only two of the clearest and best fituated plants upon each root to bear, flip the reft off; the best of which may be now planted to make a new plantation. Sow cardoons upon a bed of rich light earth, pretty thin, keep them clear from weeds; in dry weather they must be watered. The latter end of this month put fome kidney-beans in warm borders defended from cold; but not in wet weather; too Sow much moisture will rot them. ftorms of hail, and strong winds; a Sweet the MAGAZINES feleled. Work to be done in the Fruit-Garden. fweet-marjoram, thyme, hyffop, and other tender aromatic plants, upon a dry warm foil. Sow young fallet herbs twice a week, as creffes, mustard, rape, radish, &c. upon warm borders; the latter end of the month they will do better in a more open expofure. Part roots of chives, plant them in a fhady fituation to increase them; efchallions may also be parted at this season. Plant rocambole and shallots, and the beginning of the month transplant leeks for feed near a hedge to a good expofure. The end of this month fow purflane upon warm borders in the common ground; it will do well, provided the feafon proves warm and dry. Sow turneps upon an open fpot to come early. Sow the feeds of finnochia in drills made about a foot afunder, thinly fcattered over about half an inch thick. This fhould have a rich light fail, otherwife it will not fucceed well. The end of this month sow hemp, fax, white, Dutch, and red clover, faint-foyn, and lucern, the feafon fa vourable, otherwise defer it a little long er. This is the feafon for fowing of barley and March rye. In dry weather you may fow rowl wheat. Sow rouncival and grey peas, for the full crop, in the open fields; peas fown the former months, and come up, fhould be gently earthed, and the ground hoed in dry weather. Sow carrots in the open fields for feeding of theep, now practifed by fome of the most knowing farmers: one acre of carrots will fatten more fheep than three acres of turneps; as carrots are fown in the fpring, they are not liable to the fly, as is the cafe of turneps. Products of the Kitchen Garden. Winter fpinach, cabbages and favoys, fprouts, broccoli, coleworts, borecole, red beets, chard beets, cardoons, carrots, parfneps, turneps, potatoes, Jerufalem artichokes, celery, endive, and young fallet herbs; upon hot-beds, cucumbers, afparagus, peas, kidney-beans, purflane, &c. On warm borders, mint, tarragon, tanfy, and clary, with fage, parkey, marigolds, burnet, forrel, hyffop, winter favory, rosemary, baum, and other kinds of pot herbs. Finish pruning all fender fruit trees, as peaches, apricots, nectarines, &c. their buds, by this time, (the spring mild) will be very turgid, and in danger in nailing the branches. The pruning and nailing of the trees done, the ground fhould be dug about their roots to loosen it, and destroy the weeds. When the trees are in bloffom, the weather very sharp, and the nights frosty,' cover them with mats, canvas, or reeds; these should be taken off when the wea ther is mild. In very dry seasons fprinkle water gently over the branches of fruit trees, this must be performed with great caution. Yet transplant fruit trees upon a moift foil. This is the principal month for grafting fruit trees, be-" ginning with the early kinds, such as come first out in blossom, and ending with apples, which are fome of the latest in coming out; this must be performed earlier or later, according to the feason. Cut off the heads of flocks inoculated laft fummer, leaving four inches above the bud to attract the fap. Drefs and fresh earth beds of ftrawberries, pulling off their strings, and clearing them from weeds; dig between the rows of raspberries (not before done) make the ground clean and loosen it. Fruit trees planted the last autumn, with heads intire, should be headed down to three or four eyes; be careful not to disturb their roots: cover the groundwith mulch, or green fward, the grafs downward. Trees grafted the former fpring, yet remaining in the nursery, fhould be shortened to four or five eyes, this is to be understood of dwarf trees. Dig and clear the ground between goofberries and currants. Fruits in Prime, or jet lafting. Pears; bergamot, bugi, Saint Mar tial, winter boncretien, double fleur, royal d'hyver, bezy de chaumontelle, l'amozelle; and for baking, the cadi lack, Parkinson's warden, union or pickering, with fome others. Apples'?" Loan's permain, nonpareil, golden rafs fet, Pile's ruflet, Wheeler's rullet, Kentith pippin, Holland pippin, French pip pin, pomme d'api,. ftone pippin, John apple, with fome others. Work to be done in the Flower-Garden. Transplant most forts of fibrous-root ed plants, as carnations, pinks, fweet Williams, rofe campions, lychnifes, thrift, afters, goiden rods, perennial fun-flowers, Canterbury bells, peachleaved bell-flower, French honeyfuckles, daifies, buphthalmuins, leucanthemums, columbines, hieraciums, hepaticas, fraxinellas, ragged robin, wholesome wolfs bane, with many other forts; if the foil be dry, it would be much better done in the autumn. Stir the earth of borders and beds of flowers planted at Michaelmas, with a narrow trowel ; be careful not to injure the roots, nor the flower buds, which begin to appear. Choice hyacinths, anemonies, ranunculufes, and tulips, will now begin to fhew their flower buds, they should be covered with mats in bad weather. There fhould be small sticks put down by the roots of the fine hyacinths to fupport them. Plant fome roots of common double anemonies to flower late; if the season prove dry, refresh them with water, or they will not fucceed well. Boxes and pots with feedling auriculas fhould now be placed in a fhady fituation: refresh them with water in dry weather, but very gently. Pots of choice auriculas must be taken care of, to protect them from blighting winds and frosty nights: also refresh them with water in dry weather, but do not let the wet get into the center of the plants, left it in jure the flower ftems. Dig the ground in wilderness quarters, if not done the former month; in doing this there fhould be great care taken not to cut or injure the roots of flowers planted between them. Give fresh earth to carnations planted out at Michaelmas, taking part of the earth out of the pots. Pots of double rofe campions, campanulas, scarlet lychnifes, &c. planted at Michaelmas, fhould be picked from all dead leaves and filth, and the earth on the top of the pots taken out, and the pots refilled with rich earth Clean flower beds and borders, gently itir the furface of the ground to clear off mofs, &c. The latter end of this month fow the feeds of all hardy annual flowers in the borders of the pleasure-garden; such as flos Adonis, Venus looking-glass, Venus navelwort, fweet-fcented peas, tangier-peas, Lobel's catchfly, large double poppy, dwarf lychnis, dwarf annual stock, candy tuft, oriental mallow, lavateras, ketmia veficaria, convolvulus minor, convolvulus major, sweet sultans, annual fun-flower, nafturtium indicum, dwarf poppy, with many others. Sow the feeds thin in little patches, to remain; they should be thinned; thefe forts do not fucceed well transplanted. Sow the feeds of many kinds of biennial and perennial plants in your flower nursery, to fupply the flower-garden the following year; as columbines, Canterbury bells, French honeyfuckles, ftock-gilliflowers, wallflowers, fweet Williams, pinks, tree primrose, Greek valerian, pyramidal campanula, single scarlet lychnis, fingle rofe campion, single catchfly, veronicas, with fome others. On a moderate hotbed fow the feeds of marvel of Peru, French marigold, female balfamine, African marigold, convolvulus major, capficums, ftramoniums, Indian pink, sweet fultan, pomum amoris, or love apple, tree amaranthus, purple amaranthus, or love-lies-a-bleeding, and many other forts indifferent hardy. Make freshhot-beds for choice annual plants fown the former month; let the earth upon thefe beds be very good, otherwise your plants will not thrive. When the heat of the beds is moderate, the plants' should be placed in them at proper diftances; refresh them with water as they fhall require. The end of the month, the feafon mild, inclinable to wet, transplant moft forts of evergreens, as hollies, yews, phillyreas, alaternuses, bays, magnolias, cypress, cedars of Libanus, evergreen caffine, ciftufes of all the forts, inoontrefoil, &c. with many kinds of exotick trees, cover the ground with mulch after they are planted; if this month be cold, and north or eaft winds rain, with dry weather, wait till next month. The feeds of the arbutus or ftraw strawberry trees may be fown on a moderate hot-bed. Sow the feeds of firs, pines, bays, cedars, alaternuses, phillyreas, and other evergreen or hardy exotick trees, in places expofed only to the morning fun; if the place it wet raife the borders fo much above the level, as not to have any water remain upon the furface, cover the feeds with light earth; if the feeds of most of these sorts of trees are fown upon a very moderate hot-bed, it will be a more fure method of raising the plants, and it will greatly forward their growth. When the plants appear admit the free air at all times in favour. able weather. deferve your compaffion, because I am a fincere penitent. When I entered into the fourteenth year of my age, my father died, and left me wholly to the management of my mother, whose mistaken fondness for me laid a foundation for the difquietudes I now feel. She took me, Sir, immediately from a reputable and well-conducted school, at which my father had placed me five years before his death, and instead of encouraging me to prosecute those studies, in which I had made confiderable progress, only contrived how to humour and divert me. As I had not a very robust constitution, the imagined that my eyes might be hurt by poring over books, and that a close application to them would throw me into a confumption.. "Let thofe ftudy, faid fhe, who want to make their fortunes: you have no occafion to trouble yourfelf about mufly volumes."By this means my mind was uncultivated; but nothing was neglected that could give me the external accomplishments of a gentleman. Dancing-mafters," fencingmafters, and mufrc-mafters, continually attended me, and the taylor, the perriwig-maker and milliner were very frequently confulted about my education. My whole employment was to pay vifits with my mama, and to go with her to plays, operas, masquerades and affem-~ blies. Near out country-feat lived a gentleman, bieft with an easy fortune, and one child, the beautiful Monimia, who was defervedly the darling of his heart, for the poffelt every qualification that can render a woman lovely. Her mother died the fummer I was nineteen, and as our family were juft then come to Hall, they invited her to spend a Ď❀❀DD DDDDDDD few months there, in order to mitigate her grief, whilst her father was obliged to be in London about fome affairs of confequence. As there had been a long intimacy between the two families, Mr. Plants in Flower in the Pleasure-Garden. Crocuses of various forts, double fnowdrop, large early fnow-drop, feveral forts of narciffufes, Perfian iris, double pilewort, daffodils of several forts, spring cyclamen, early tulips, crown imperialis, byacinths of feveral forts, fennel-leaved perennial Adonis, fome anemonies, violets, hepaticas, wall-flowers, alyffon, perennial fumitary, primrofes, polyanthufus, daifies, dens canis, mufcari, bollow root, hermodactyl, fpring colchicum, auriculas, heart's-ease or panfies, rofe-root, wood anemonies, hellebores, perennial navelwort, blue mountain faxifrage, Spanish white fedum, Venetian vetch, yellow ftar flower, with fome others. Medicinal Plants which may now be ga thered of Use. Brooklime, elder buds, nettle tops, colts-foot flowers, noble liverwort, primrofe, violet, rue-leaved whitlow-grafs, watercress, and, toward the end of the month, poplar bud. From the UNIVERSAL MUSEUM. The Story of Florio and Monimia. To the PRINTER. SIR, Am at this inftant one of the un left his daughter with great fatisfaction, and the herself was well-pleafed to stay with us. I had not feen her a year before this invitation and could men in the world. Read funding my story with attention, and pity me. I ing. She was not quite fixteen, but for for wit and beauty, "beggar'd all de faription." Her fable drefs, together with an unaffected melancholy for the lofs of a valuable parent, ferved only to heighten her charms, and to infpire at once both love and pity. A month, however, glided away, before I prefumed to speak to her on the subject of love, and even then I disclosed my paffion with great hesitation. She was not lefs confused, but told me with blushing cheeks and faultring accents, that 'she must not think of love fo foon. This favourable answer tranfported me fo much, that I took every opportunity to convince her of the ardor and fincerity of my paffion. She listened to me eagerly, and foon gave me leave to ask her father's confent at his return. Till that could be obtained, we agreed to keep matters as private as poflible. The old gentleman's affairs detained him longer than he thought they would, and we I went on in this way near four months, infinitely happy in each others company, till one Sunday in the afternoon a letter came to let her know, that her father would be at his own houfe on the Thurf. day following, and that he expected to find her there. This intelligence alarmed us, and made us contrive what courfe to fteer on fo critical an occafion, for my mother began to grow fufpicious, and we were afraid the would, for fome private reasons, prevent the match. .During the warm weather we had our interviews in the garden, after the family were asleep, almost every night : but when the evenings grew wet and cold, I gained her permiffion to come foftly to her chamber: a fcheme that was very practicable, because it was not far from my own, and because nobody lay in it, but her own fervant, who was her bedfellow, and intirely in my intereft. At one of these midnight meet ings I received from her fo many proofs of her affection and efteem, that I beheld her with unusual ecstacy, with rapture inexpreffible. I feized the dear, innocent, fweet blushing creature in my arms, and bore her ftruggling to the bed the thruft me from her with a VOL. II. She refolute air, and, rifing in confufion," I. my ruin.” I was rouzed by this keen reproach, flung myself at her feet, and implored her in the humbleft pofture to forgive my prefumption, which was occafioned by excefs of love. told her alfo, that a union of hearts made a marriage, and not merely the outward ceremony: and that the was as fully mine in the fight of her Creator, as if an archbishop had performed the office. At the clofe of this fpeech, I kified her hand, intreated her to kneel down by me, pulled out of my pocket a common-prayer book, and read the matrimonial fervice. She repeated her part after me. And we both swore in the most folemn manner to confrm our vows before the world in a month at fartheft. When this was done, I puť out the light, and partly by perfuafion, partly by force, spent the remainder of the night in her embraces. [To be concluded in our next.] From the UNIVERSAL MUSEUM. The THEATRE. The Rife and Progrefs of the Engli THE true drama in England was and Johnfon; and many of Shakespear's revived by Shakespear, Fletcher, and Johnfon's pieces were first acted by thefe companies. Queen alfo, at the request of Sir FranBefides thefe, the cis Walfingham, established twelve of the principal players of that time, with handfome falaries, under the name of her Majesty's company of comedians and fervants. There were the common S players |