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to a rusty disagreeable color, which they will not recover before 

 the ensuing spring. 



ORDINARY WORK. 



Mow grass-walks and lawns close and even, and roll them, in 

 order that they should appear neat all winter; clean and roll your 

 gravel-walks once a week; hoe, weed, cut, rake, and carry away 

 clean off the ground, all weeds, decayed flower-stems, fallen leaves, 

 &c. ; prepare ground by trenching, laying it up in ridges, &c. for 

 spring planting, which will be of considerable advantage both in me- 

 liorating the ground and expediting your business at that season. 



THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



Having in the preceding month, page 527, intimated the proper 

 time for taking in the green-house plants, in the eastern States, I 

 shall now notice the period for doing that business in the middle 

 States. In the southern States, the plants may be left out a few 

 days later than hereafter mentioned, say from four to ten, according 

 to climate, season, and local situation. 



About the first day of this month, if not done before, take into 

 the green-house all the more hardy species of cactuses, aloes, me- 

 sembryanthemums, sedums, stapelias, agaves, cotyledons, cycas revo- 

 luta, and other succulent and tender plants; place them in front 

 where they can have plenty of air in mild weather, and give them 

 water but sparingly. 



Let it be observed for the benefit and encouragement of those who 

 have no hot-houses, that although all the above genera or families 

 are commonly considered as hot-house plants, the far greater number 

 of species thereunto belonging, may be preserved in excellent per- 

 fection in a good green-house, and also many other plants hitherto 

 considered as too tender to be preserved therein : experience is the 

 true criterion, and where there are duplicates of doubtful plants, an 

 ingenious gardener will make an experiment with one of each. Seve- 

 ral kinds of plants commonly kept in hot-houses, would thrive much 

 better in a well constructed green-house, if kept comparatively drier 

 at the roots during winter. 



Between the sixth and tenth of this month, according to the sea- 

 son, situation, and shelter of the place, you should take in your 

 orange, lemon, citron, lime and shaddock-trees, and also your gera- 

 niums, and every other sort of plant that slight frosts could injure 

 or discolor the leaves thereof. Myrtles and the more hardy kinds 

 will not be in much danger before the middle of the month, nor will 

 the hardiest sorts, such as prunus luscitanica, or Portugal laurel, 

 prunus lauro-cerasus, or Levant laurel, viburnum tinus, or laurustinus, 

 arbutus unedo, or strawberry-tree, lagerstroemiaindica, daphne odora, 

 fuchsia coccinea, cupressus sempervirens, hydrangea hortensis, &c., 



