CALENDAR 



The instructions given in the following calendar are, of 

 course, adapted to the climate of Britain, where the cold 

 is more enduring and greater in the average, but not so 

 excessive as that usually experienced in the winters of the 

 United States, especially those of the northern and middle 

 regions, where little if any work can be done in the open 

 air, in the kitchen or flower gardens, during the months of 

 January and February. Now and then, in the latter 

 month, when the frost may happen to leave the earth for a 

 brief period, the planting of some kinds of early peas, cab- 

 bages, with a few others of the more early vegetables, may 

 be effected. In the more southerly portions of the Union, 

 many of the instructions given in the calendar for January 

 and February may be followed out, whilst those adapted 

 to the condition of things in the hot months of June and 

 July would require much greater modification. Seeing 

 the great differences presented by the American climate 

 during the same months in the various latitudes, we have 

 chosen to give the English Calendar with little alteration, 

 trusting to the good common sense of the American garden- 

 ers to make use of the valuable suggestions and directions 

 which it contains, with such modifications as they may find 

 requisite to adapt them to the precise seasons and circum- 

 stances, as these exist in their several localities. Most of 

 the early out door work herein specified should be delayed 

 two months later in the Northern States. 



