GARDENER'S CALENDAR 



(LATITUDE OF NEW YORK CITY) 



JANUARY 



Plan the garden. 



Branches of Forsythia, Jasminum, plum and cherry may be brought 

 indoors for forcing. 



FEBRUARY 



Order plants and fertilizers and tools " to be shipped such and 

 such a date." 



Plan the garden. 



Start seeds indoors of certain perennials and annuals. 



Make cuttings. 



Prune roses (late Feb.) and grape-vines. 



MARCH 



Deciduous trees and shrubs and hardy perennials are the earliest 

 plantings; these may be set out as soon as the ground can be worked. 

 The sooner roses are planted, the better. In the South such planting 

 is done in January and February. In the North, in the latitude of 

 New York, the planting season for such is reckoned from March 

 15 until May 15 from the time the ground is "open" until growth 

 actually begins. These dates are approximate, of course, and vary ac- 

 cording to the lateness or earliness of the season. Six days are al- 

 lowed for each hundred miles of latitude. 



Uncover and prune your roses now. Prune also hydrangeas and 

 other late-flowering shrubs. Do not prune early ones. 



A new lawn is best made now. 



Fruit-trees should be sprayed for scale. If you don't know how 

 to do it, send to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., for 

 Bulletin No. 243. 



Sweet peas may be sown as early as the ground can be worked. 

 Give them rich soil, plant in a trench six inches deep, covering to the 



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