==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 grow many choice things if they will be content to have them a week or two later than their more fortunate neighbours.  In sowing seeds of the more tender subjects, such as Capsicums, Marrows, and Cucumbers, it will be better to lose a few days, in order to make sure of the result desired, rather than to be in undue haste and have the seed destroyed by heavy rains, or the young plants nipped off by frost.  Do not, therefore, sow any of these seeds in the open ground until the weather is somewhat settled and sunny, for if they meet with any serious check they will scarcely recover during the whole of the season.