206 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



OUR MONTHLY CALENDAR 



AT least ten months of the twelve will bring its 

 quota of lawn and garden work, and as our tasks 

 should be orderly arranged and as we should know 

 well beforehand what the coming duties are to be 

 and when they should be undertaken the author 

 presents this calendar or monthly schedule of the 

 tasks that should be undertaken, hoping that it 

 may serve as a useful reminder. 



We pass the first two months of the year with 

 just this thought, that while it is too early for 

 outside work, some of our evenings around the 

 cheery fireside may be profitably and pleasurably 

 spent in reading and studying the new catalogues 

 that by this time have come to hand, and in plan- 

 ning something new and delightful to grace our 

 lawns and gardens this coming season. 



With the advent of MARCH we shall do the 

 pruning of our Roses, also of our flowering shrubs 

 of the late blooming sorts such as needs to be 

 done before the growing season. If the garden 

 was not manured in the Fall (providing we are 

 using raw manure), we will do that work this 

 month, and toward the end of the month we will 

 rake off the mulch from our beds of roses and 



