SECTION VI 



SEASONAL REMINDERS 



Although seasons and conditions vary so much 

 m different years and different places that no 

 hard and fast advice can be given for the per- 

 forming of gardening operations, yet brief hints 

 for the proper work of the various months may 

 be useful as suggestions and reminders. Most of 

 the older gardening books were arranged wholly 

 on the calendar method, giving specific direc- 

 tions for each month in the year. We have now 

 accumulated sufficient fact and experience, how- 

 ever, to enable us to state principles ; and these 

 principles can be applied anywhere, when sup- 

 plemented by good judgment, whereas mere 

 rules are arbitrary and generally useless for any 

 other condition than that for which they were 

 specifically made. 



The plan ting -table on page 387 is reprinted, by 

 permission, from "American Gardening," Febru- 

 ary 22, 1896. It presents much advice in small 

 space. 



The Monthly Calendars are compiled from files 

 of the "American Garden" of some years back, 



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