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9. Pot another batch of bulbs for late blooming in the greenhouse. 



10. Make a plantation of raspberries. 



II. Keep greenhouse, furnished with chrysanthemums, nicely warm in 

 wet and foggy weather. Give plenty of air on suitable days. 



12. Place mushroom spawn in prepared beds. 



13. Pot spiraea japonica for forcing. 



14. Top-dress borders containing hardy perennials with decayed 

 manure. This can be forked in during early spring. 



15. Make and repair paths. 



16. Plant gooseberries and red and white currants. 



17. Plant hardy fruit trees and start pruning established trees. 



18. Make rockery where there is room. Plant bulbs, but defer 

 general planting till early spring. 



19. Give shrubby calceolaria cuttings plenty of air so as to maintain 

 a sturdy growth. 



20. Plan and form new flower beds. Fill with bulbs and early spring- 

 flowering subjects. If the weather is open, it is not too late 

 to plant wallflowers. 



21. Give newly planted fruit trees a mulching with decayed manure, 

 spreading it out well so as to cover the whole area of the roots. 



22. Plant rhododendrons in soil that does not contain lime. 



23. Take and plant cuttings of gooseberries and currants. 



24. Give arum lilies a temperature of at least 55, otherwise they will 

 not bloom. 



25. Collect all garden rubbish and burn in a bonfire. Save ashes in 

 boxes for use as a fertiliser in spring. 



26.-^Plant hardy shrubs, such as aucuba, box, euonymus, laurel, yew, 

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27. Prune wall and pyramid fruit-trees. 



28. Cut down chrysanthemums that have bloomed and keep the soil 

 in the pots moist so as to induce a good production of shoots 

 for cuttings. 



29. Continue to trench vacant ground. 



30. Take out a few pots of Roman hyacinths from the cover of fibre 

 or ashes and gradually inure them to the light before intro- 

 ducing them to the warm greenhouse for flowering. 



