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PKAOTICE OF IIOliTlCULTURE. 



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at the same time as the bulbs, such asalyssuin, 

 urnbis, aubrietia purpurea, diolytras, ibt-ris, 

 pansios, polyauthusL-s, primulua, wullllowors, 

 &c. 



NoVEMntR. 



Fruit Garden. — Prune and plant as weather 

 permits. Prune bush-fruits, and fork the 

 ground over botwoou the rows. Burn the 

 prunings, and strew the ashes over the ncwly- 

 Ibrked surface. Bed and white currants 1 

 should bo cut back to skeletons. Old apple | 

 trees should be scrubbed, if infested with 

 bliglit, with a strong brine, and the holes 

 stopped with a mixture of clay, sulphur, 

 soot, and cow-dung, beaten together into a 

 tenacious paste. 



Forcing Department. — Begonias, camellias, 

 chrysauthemunis, iuchsias, late-struck gera- 

 niums, and salvias, will now contribute greatly 

 to the gaiety of tlie conservatory. 



Kitchen Garden. — Wherever trenching and 

 digging are required, let it be done without 

 delay. Turf should be stacked, and the 

 clippings gathered for burning, to make 

 dressings of manure for beds and borders. 

 The general work of the kitchen garden is 

 only a continuation of last month. 



Flower Garden. — Get under cover, without 

 delay, whatever is too tender to bear the 

 frost. Get up dahlias, tally, and stow them 

 away, out of the reach of frost, moisture, 

 and heat. Obtain a supply of rose stocks at 

 once, if you intend to graft or bud for yourself 

 next season. Plant in good loam, and stake 

 tbeni securely. Plant bulbs as soon as possi- 

 ble, both in beds and borders. 



December. 



Fruit Garden. — Old fruit trees should be 

 dug round, and a layer of old dung, six inches 

 thick, laid down in a ring, three feet round 

 the stem of each, to improve the sizo of the 

 fruit against next season. Any trees that 

 grow too luxuriantly to bear well, should bo 

 pruned at the roots. Protection to any ten- 

 der fruit trees should be given, and boards, 

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in a blope, laid over vino borders to hlulter 

 them from t-xeeMHively cold rains. Strawberry 

 beds may bo made this month; but it is not 

 a fiivourablo period for struwhcrriea. Jiush- 

 fruits Bhould bo planted, potted, pruned, and 

 manured. Gno.HL'berries and ciirrunls may bo 

 lightly forked between, to ainalganmto tho 

 uianuro with tlio Boil ; but raspberries should 

 have three or four inehea of dung, not very 

 rotten, laid over tho piece, and tho soil between 

 them should not bo dug at ail. Orchard- 

 house trees may be pruned ; and it is recom- 

 mended that they bo washed with a solution 

 of eight ounces of Giahurat to a gallon of soft 

 water. 



Forcing Department. — Till after Christmas 

 chrysanthemums will keep this department gay, 

 when tho first lot of forced shrubs, especially 

 azaleas, will be ready to take their place, 

 llard-wooded plants in the green-house must 

 have as much air as the weather will permit, 

 and as little water as possible, from the expec- 

 tation of frost setting in. The thermometer 

 should not descend below .38°. Ericas should 

 have air at every opportunity ; and if forced 

 with other flowering shrubs, must have the 

 coolest place in the forcing-pit, and be very 

 gently stimulated. Greeu-house temperature, 

 40° to 45°. 



Kitchen Garden. — Plantations of asparagus, 

 horseradish, rhubarb, and sea-kale should be 

 made. Eoots of dandelion, packed together 

 in leaf-mould, and put into gentle heat, will, 

 in five or six weeks, furnish a delicate salad. 

 Early peas and beans should now be sown on 

 warm dry slopes ; and broccoli heeled over, 

 witli their heads to the north. 



Flower Gardm. — Bulbs ought to bo all 

 planted by this time ; but if any remain out 

 of the ground, they should be got in without 

 delay. I'uchsias to remain out all the winter 

 should be cut down, and their roots covered 

 with litter or coal-ashes. Pansies, pinks, 

 and other choice things in open beds, should 

 have a little light litter sprinkled over them 

 in frosty weather, or be protected with canvai 

 on hoops. Protect tulips in the same way 



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