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NOVEMBER. 



CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOB THE FLOWER 

 GARDEN, SHRUBBERY, AND GREENHOUSE. 



Alterations. — Remember every 

 day you protract any proposed 

 alterations, or the making of ad- 

 ditions, you run the risk of being 

 foiled by the frost; for, when that 

 once sets in, all work of any conse- 

 quence is stopped until it goes 

 again. Planting of deciduous trees 

 and shrubs should be persevered 

 in till done. Evergreens may be 

 planted out, but will take no harm 

 for a while. All the trenching, 

 digging, making roads and walks, 

 and planting ornamental timber 

 may go on with all reasonable 

 speed, for any fine day lost is 

 irrecoverable, especially if un- 

 favourable Aveather should after- 

 wards set in. Wet is as bad as 

 frost, and often does more mischief. 



Anemones may be planted in 

 beds or patches, three inches deep, 

 and six in a small patch, to remain 

 there, or six inches apart all over 

 the bed or border ; and let the 

 earth be bruised well that covers 

 them. 



Auriculas. — Take off the dead 

 leaves, keep the frames clean in- 

 side, and give no more water than 

 is necessary. Let them have all 

 the air they can on mild dry days, 

 but when there is any fall of wet 

 let the glasses be propped, so as 

 to keep off the rain. 



Box Edgings. — The whole art of 



laying down a Box edging well 

 consists in forming the ridge, 

 against which it is to be planted, 

 true, level, and hard ; and in cut- 

 ting the Box into small slireds, 

 not only that a little may go a long 

 way, but that it may be weak 

 enough to obey the pressure of a 

 little earth to keep it home in its 

 place. We have seen Box dibbled 

 in, and there are works which re- 

 commend it ; but there is no way 

 so true, and in all respects perfect, 

 as to form your bed, border, clump, 

 or whatever else you choose to edge 

 with Box, the exact figure you want 

 it, by hard treading it on the edge, 

 and putting the soil on until it is 

 quite level, and trodden hard ; then 

 cut the soil away from the front, 

 or pit side of it, in a sloping direc- 

 tion, exactly the form you require. 

 The top being level, and the sloping 

 front cut even and ready, put small 

 bits of Box close by the side of each 

 other, so that there is no vacancy 

 between them, nor any lapping over 

 each other, pressing the loose earth 

 in front as you go on, to bank the 

 Box into its place, which is with 

 the green half an inch above the 

 top of the soil ; while the patch is 

 afterwards gravelled, so that the 

 gravel comes up on the path side 

 exactly as high as the soil on the 

 other. In digging the beds after- 



