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stowed away in pit, frame, shed, or cellar for a month or two, 

 when it may be taken into the greenhouse and packed closely 

 together under the stage, and will be fit for use from January 

 to March, according to the temperature of the house. 



NOVEMBER. 



Greenhouse and Flower Garden. — All plants should now 

 be in-doors. A sharp lookout must be kept for cold snaps. 

 These often come very unexpectedly in November, and as many 

 plants are injured by frost in this as there are in the colder 

 months, when the enemy is more closely watched for. "When 

 fire heat is freely used, be careful to keep up the proper supply 

 of moisture by syringing, sprinkling the paths, etc. In the 

 flower garden nothing is now to be done except to clean off dead 

 stalks and straw up tender Roses, vines, etc., and wherever 

 there is time, to dig up and rake the borders, as it will greatly 

 facilitate spring work. All beds where Hyacinths or other fall 

 bulbs have been planted, had better be covered with rough 

 litter or leaves to the depth of two or three inches. If short, 

 thoroughly decayed manure can be spared, a good sprinkling 

 spread over the law^n will help it to a finer growth in spring. 



Fruit Garden. — In cold sections the hay or straw mulching 

 recommended in the chapter on the "Strawberry" may be put 

 on during: the last of this month. Grape-vines and fruit-trees 

 generally should be pruned ; and if wood of the vine is wanted 

 for cuttings, or cions of fruit trees for grafts, they should be 

 tied in small neat bunches, and buried in the ground until 

 spring. 



Vegetable Garden. — All Celery that is to be stored for 

 winter use should be put away before the end of the month in 

 all places north of Richmond, Va. South of that it may be left, 

 in most places, in the rows where grown, if covered up. Direc- 

 tions for storing Celery for winter are given under "Celery." 

 The stalks of Asparagus beds should be cut off; and as Aspara- 

 gus sometimes becomes a w^eed by the seeds dropping, it is bet- 

 ter to burn the stems if there are berries on them. Spread a 

 heavy dressing of rough manure three or four inches thick on 

 the beds. All roots that are yet in the ground, and not de- 

 signed to b3 left there all Avinter, must be dug up in this lat- 

 itude before the middle of the month, or they may be frozen 

 in until spring. Onions, Spinach, Sprouts, Cabbage, or Lettuce 



