Monthly Memoranda. 139 



NOVEMBER. 



Finish gathering and storing late crops. 



Set cabbage and cauliflower plants in cold frame, and harden 

 them by exposure. 



Mulch spinach for spring lightly. 



Protect parsley from snow and extreme cold by a board cap 

 or inverted trough. 



Celery not well protected is to be gathered early and 

 trenched in, or stored in root cellar. 



Market the bleached celery. 



Harvest and store root crops. Gather salsify and leeks for 

 winter use, and store like celery. 



Top-dress rhubarb with manure, bone meal, muriate of 

 potash. 



Clear up the garden generally, and get ready for spring 

 crops. 



Draw manure to compost heap or to the field. 



DECEMBER. 



Look to frames and forcing houses. 



Keep cold frame plants dormant. Too much protection is 

 worse than exposure. 



Mulch spinach. Draw soil lightly over the tops of salsify. 



Market celery, cabbage, onions, beets, hot-house lettuce. 



Draw material for the compost heaps from city or town. 



Look over the credits and debits of each crop. Figure 

 which are the profitable and which are the unprofitable ones, and 

 study the causes of failure wherever it occurred, to learn how 

 to avoid it in future. 



