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HORTICULTURE AND CHRONOLOGY. 11
HORTICULTURE FOR MARCH.
The weeds will now keep the gardiner busy, as they will be growing very
freely; keep the ground well stirred with the hoe; set out Cabbage plants,
Lettue, Turnip Beets, Tomatoes, Egg-Plants, &c., from the seed bed. If you
consider it necessary, sow a succession of Drumhead Cabbage, with Stone
Turnip, Blood Turnip Beet, Long Orange and Long Scarlet Carrot, Long Scar-
let and Scarlet Turnip Radish. Divide Onions and Esehalots and make new
beds.
Plant Corn, Irish Potatoes, Okra, Cucumbers, and Squash, Nutmeg, Musk
and Water Mellons. Sow English Peas for the last crop; the Marrowfat Pea
is prefered at this season. Plant the White or Gray Crowder Pea for an early
crop; plant Bush Beans, Lima and Butter Beans.' Look to your Sweet Pota-
toe beds, if the slips are up, prepare the ground as soon as the weather will
permit for setting them out; hoe and plow your Corn and Irish Potatoes; hoe
amongst all plants that are forward enough, for if they get choked with weeds
at this early seasdl, their growth will be materially retarded.
Grafting may still be done; look to the trees grafted last month; where
the clay has cracked or fallen off, replace it by fresh applications; if the
grafts have commenced to grow and have sprouted about an inch, take the
clay off carefully and loosen the binding to give the graft room to swell, re-
place it, binding it up carefully again as before, and then cover it with fresh
clay.
In the West counties of the State, where we are subject to sudden
changes in the weather, even at this season, it will be advisable to
protect your summer vines, such as Cucumbers, Mellons, &c., dur-
ng the cold spells; for this purpose, old barrels or boxes will do.
When a change in the weather is expected have ready the barrels or
whatever you intend to protect your plants with and let them be set
over the young plants a little before sundown. It will also be advis-
able to lay straw, dead leaves or other trash over the plants inside of
the barrels or boxes, thus keeping the cold air at a greater distance.
CHRONOLOGY.
March 22, 1686--La Salle undertakes his first journey from Fort St. Louis, on the
Lavaca, to Illinois.
" 20, 1687-La Salle killed by a conspiracy among his own men, on the Neches.
22, 1S01-Battle between Capt. Noland's company of 20 men, and the
Spanish forces, 150 men, on the Brazos river.
" 19, 1823-Iturbide abdicated the throne of Mexico, in consequence of the
revolution.
" 27, 1823--The Republican army enters the city of Mexico, and the old Con-
gre r-convene.
" 11, 1811--Hidalgo betrayed by Elisondo, one of his own officers.
" 12, 1S13--Saleedo, Governor of Tex:d, abandons the siege of Goliad and
retires to San Antonio.
" 24, 1825--Colonization Law of Coo i U and Texas passed.
11, 1827-The Constitution of Coahui;a and Texas promulgated.
29, 1S83--Santa Anna elected President of Mexico, without opposition.
" 1, 1S36--General Convention of Texas assembled at Washington.
2, 1886--Independence of Texas declared.
" 6, 1886--Alamo stormed by the Mexican army and all its defenders slain.
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The Texas Almanac, for 1857, with Statistics, Historical and Biographical Sketches, &c., Relating to Texas., book, 1966; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123763/m1/14/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.