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CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. 
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JANUARY.—Presuming the necessary protection 
has been properly applied to all the tender varieties, 
there will be little to fear now from the effects of 
frost. It is requisite that every Rose plant should 
receive a good dressing of manure at least once a 
year ; advantage should, therefore, be taken of hard 
frost to have it wheeled on and spread over the 
surface, and during open weather let it be forked in. 
I usually prepare for this purpose (a month or two 
before it is required) a large heap, consisting of 
horse dung and pig dung, to this is added a few 
hundredweight of half-inch bones, burnt earth, and 
any decayed vegetable matter at hand. About four 
or five spadefuls of this are put to each plant; and 
for the Rose beds it is spread about an inch thick 
over the surface. Any spare time may be advan- 
tageously employed in preparing labels and going 
over the stock, and renewing such as are obliterated. 
Frpruary.—Proceed with pruning all the most 
hardy summer-blooming kinds, commencing with 
the French, Moss, Alba, and Provence, and finish- 
ing with the Hybrid China and Hybrid Bourbon. 
Let all planting be completed whenever the weather 
is favourable ; it should never be delayed beyond 
the middle of March, for no plant suffers more than 
the Rose from late planting. Fork in manure, and 
take off close to the stem every root sucker as this 
operation proceeds. Where any plant is observed 
