SECT. XX. DECEMBER. 427 



Mice traps, set about peas, beans, cauliflowers, c. 



249. 

 Caterpillars in trees, snails in walls, and slugs, see 



after. 



Tools, make, repair, grind, and keep bright, 295. 

 Seeds, look over the stock to keep them clean and dry. 

 Fruit and oinons, examine, remove decaying, 244, 



281. 



Straw, damp or musty, remove from store rooms. 

 Frost, guard against the ill effects of every where. 

 Wheat straw, useful to protect things, see radish, 254. 

 Vegetables, before hard frost, take up, see last month. 

 Artichokes, asparagus, and raspberries, (if not before) 



give their winter dressing to soon, 215, 218, 174. 

 Endive, tie up when perfectly dry, and ridge some, 



235. 

 Earth up (dry) celery high, also cauliflowers, char- 



dons, brocoli, savoys, cabbages, c. pressing the 



mould. 

 Cauliflowers and lettuces in frames, q. manage, 228, 



242. 

 Planting, prepare for, and open the holes ready, 29, 



103. 



Vacant ground, clean, dung, rough, dig, or trench, 47. 

 Barrow, make use of when frost to wheel in dung, &c. 

 Hot-beds, see and manage the materials well for, 1 80, 

 Cucumbers may be sown in the last week, 187, 188. 

 Composts, make, and incorporate well by turning over. 

 Orchards, prune trees, dress, dig, or plough the soil ?1 



45. 

 Prune wall pear trees, espaliers, and shrubs, 161, 



Hedges, ditches, and drains, manage as the case rcr 



quires. 



Drain wet from orchard, garden, nursery, &c. 

 Spring, have a constant eye to, and prepare things 



for. 



