PART IV 

 KALENDAR 



GARDENING IN JANUARY 



Note It will be necessary for my readers to make due allowance for 

 the variations of climate in the different parts of these Islands, e.g. seeds 

 may be sown and plants exposed in the South of England, and in other 

 favoured localities, fully a month in advance of the time it would be 

 prudent to venture on such work in the neighbourhood of Glasgow. 

 Local experience alone can be our guide in such matters. 



'VTOTHING has such a tendency to spoil the comfort 

 * ^ of gardening as to find that we are some weeks 

 behind time in spring work ; in a month such as 

 January, therefore, the most useful tasks are those of 

 preparation and anticipation. We are practically at the 

 mercy of the weather, and should endeavour to adapt 

 ourselves to our circumstances. If the weeks should be 

 dry, all spare plots ought to be rough-dug and trenched,* 

 so as to expose the earth to the sweetening and pulverising 

 action of the wind and frost, and well-manured, ready 

 for spring sowing. It is worse than useless to work 

 ground when it is saturated with rain or hardened by 

 frost. 



Pruning! operations and planting may be carried on 

 * See pages 14, 118, t See page 130, et seq. 



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