CHAPTER LII 



A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF OPERATIONS FOR EVERY DAY 

 OF THE YEAR* 



JANUARY 



i. Trench, dig and manure in the vegetable plot. Make out seed 



order for early vegetables. Prune vines under glass. 

 2. Plan out vegetable plot on paper. Make new and renovate old 



garden paths. 



3. Pot up shrubs for forcing and pot tuberoses. 

 4. Thoroughly clean glass of greenhouse inside and out and fumigate 



cinerarias if greenfly has made its appearance. 

 5. Plant horseradish. Finish pruning fruit trees where this has 



not already been done. 

 6. Take chrysanthemum cuttings ; plant trees and flowering shrubs 



in mild open weather ; sow small batch of tomato seed in 



warm greenhouse. 



7. Sow seed of begonias, gloxinias and streptocarpus in heat. 

 8. Sow seeds, in boxes in warm house, of leeks, onions, carrots 



and radishes. 

 g._Sweep and well roll lawns. Top-dress with well-decayed manure, 



or bone meal at the rate of a handful distributed over a square 



yard. 



I0 . Sow cyclamen seed. Sow hollyhock and antirrhinum for flower- 

 ing in the succeeding summer. 

 n. p t auratum and other lilies for greenhouse cultivation. Bring 



further batches of bulbs from the cold frame into the warm 



house for flowering. 

 I2 . Protect hearts of broccoli by snapping a large leaf and bending it 



over. 

 I3 . Prune fuchsias to start them into growth in greenhouse. Lightly 



prune climbing roses in greenhouse. Wash the trunks and 



* As a general rule the operations recommended herewith should be carried out a 

 fortnight later than the dates suggested in the North of Englard and in Scotland. 



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