How to manage a Garden 



cabbage club-root. Discontinue mowing. Clean machine, 

 take to pieces and store. Plant raspberries and currants. 

 Commence forcing seakale and rhubarb. Lift and prune 

 fruit-trees that have grown vigorously. Prune vines and 

 peaches. During mild weather prune and nail wall trees. 

 Pot on bulbs in variety. If vines are to be propagated 

 from eyes in the spring, heel in some of the cuttings. 

 Cover up frames, &c., during frost. See that the fire 

 burns well throughout the night. Dig ground round 

 orchard trees. Earth up celery and protect during frost. 

 Point garden walls where fruit is to be trained. Put a 

 frame over Christmas roses to get them along early, and 

 keep them clean. Put ashes or soil round wooden frames, 

 the better to keep out frost. Commence taking cuttings 

 of chrysanthemums. Select sturdy pieces from the base. 



December. 



Dust sulphur among chrysanthemums to prevent mildew. 

 Give them plenty of room. Remove all bad petals. Look 

 over all root vegetables and remove decayed ones; also 

 with apples and pears. Pot up little ferns. Clean vine 

 rods when pruning is completed. Wash greenhouses, and 

 whitewash walls of sheds. Make labels, stakes, &c., 

 during bad weather. Plant box for edging walks. Dig 

 among shrubs. Plant shrubs and hedges. Prepare 

 seed list. Look over account of year's work and note 

 failures and successes. Prune raspberries and logan- 

 berries. Scrape moss off orchard trees. Put some pot 

 strawberries in cold house to prepare for forcing. Mix 

 soil some few days before it is required in order that it 

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