CHAPTER XXIII. 

 A FLOWER GARDEN CALENDAR. 



WHEN I first planned this little book I did not intend to 

 include " A Garden Calendar." But I have been pressed 

 to do so and urged by friends who have told me they will 

 be keenly disappointed if I omit it, so I cannot help myself. 

 I must once again do as I am told. 



I fear, however, that it is impossible to make it as 

 interesting as I have tried to make other portions of the 

 book. " Calendars of Operations " are dull reading. 

 I know of only one exception, but that runs into over 

 400 pages. 



The following Calendar is compiled from my experience 

 in the Midlands. But it may be used by readers all over 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland. Readers living in the 

 South of England, where it is warmer, may anticipate the 

 work, that is, they can do it a month earlier, and in the 

 extreme South- West such as Cornwall, even earlier still. 

 In Scotland, however, or in the colder northern parts of 

 England, the work must be postponed several weeks ; for 

 instance, work described in the Calendar to be done in 

 March should not be done until April. The climate of 

 the midland parts of Ireland is similar to my own, that of 

 the South to the Southern part of England, and that of 

 the North to the Southern part of Scotland or the North 

 of England. 



This is all that it is necessary to say about the Calendar 

 by way of introduction. 



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