CHAPTER XXV 

 A GARDEN CALENDAR 



January. 



DIG vacant ground. Protect from frost all plants needing 

 it. Wheel manure on ground during hard frost. Burn 

 weeds and rubbish. Make up hotbeds. Make mushroom 

 bed. Plant potatoes, peas, and beans in pots. Force 

 asparagus in pits and hotbeds and keep up supply of 

 forced rhubarb and seakale. Sow tomatoes, cucumbers, 

 and melons for early work. Sow seed of cabbages and 

 cauliflowers in boxes. Look over potatoes and other store 

 roots. Plant trees in favourable weather. Prune pyramid 

 and other trees. Tie or nail up wall trees and espaliers. 

 Prune and train peach trees. Put by scions of apples, 

 pears, &c., for grafting. Hoe among crops and clean 

 between them. Sow onions in boxes in gentle heat. 

 Water plants during the morning. Clean vines. Wash 

 plant houses inside and out. Start first batch of gloxinias. 

 Sow primulas in pan. Bring some pot strawberries inside. 

 Put in cuttings of chrysanthemums. Fumigate to keep 

 down green fly. 



February. 



Roll lawn after showers. Keep up succession of forcing 

 plants such as bulbs, azaleas, spireas, &c. See that seed 

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