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Salsify dig \ip for winter use. Scorzonera dig up for winter use. 

 Sea-kale clear away the decayed stems and leaves, and take up the 

 first lot for forcing. Preserve culinary vegetables from frost in pots, 

 frames, and orchard-houses, with temporary screens of mats, &c. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Pinery water the plants cautiously at this season ; those planted 

 on a dung-bed will require none : admit air at every favourable 

 opportunity. Vinery protect the border where the vines of the 

 early forcing-house are growing outside, with wooden shutters, 

 thatched hurdles, or glass. Peach-house prune and dress the trees. 

 as soon as the leaves have fallen. Cherry-house if the lights have 

 been taken off, they should now be replaced, but left open night 

 and day, unless the weather is severe. The trees should now be 

 pruned. Orchard-house prune and dress the trees for the destruc- 

 tion of scale and other insects; keep open in mild weather; plant out 

 trees in borders ; make borders : top-dress the pots, and sow near the 

 front of the house a row or two of early dwarf peas, and some lettuce. 

 Pot Fig-trees for forcing. Continue to plant all sorts of fruit trees 

 and bushes as in last month. Protect Fig-trees. Prune the Apple, 

 Pear, Plum, Cherry, Filbert, and Gooseberry and Currant; also nail 

 and tie those against walls and espaliers. Look over the fruit in 

 the fruit -room. Mulch newly-planted fruit trees, to protect them 

 from frost. 



DECEMBER. 



VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 



Asparagus take up roots for forcing. Celery protect during 

 severe frosts. Cucumbers attend to the linings of the beds. French 

 Beans plant in pots for forcing. Mushrooms keep a moist and 

 steady temperature in the house. Radishes sow on a hotbed for 

 early use. Rhubarb take up roots, and pot for forcing. Sea-kale 

 take up roots carefully, for forcing. Small Salad keep a succession, 

 by sowing once a week. Prepare materials for hotbeds. Preserve and 

 force Lettuces, Radishes, &c., under hand-lights, cloches, and Rendle's 

 Plant Protectors, or in pots and frames. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Pinery slightly increase the temperature of the fruiting-house ; 

 if there is a great declination of bottom-heat, add a little fresh tan 

 between the pots. Vintry clean and paint the house, or prune the 

 vines ; prepare for forcing. Peach-house after the trees are tied to 

 the trellis, take away a little of the loose, dry top-soil ; slightly dig the 

 border, so as not to injure the roots, and add some fresh soil. Cherry- 

 house fix the trees to the trellis, and make preparations for forcing 

 next month. Orchard-house protect the trees from frost by covering 



