CHAPTER XXVIL 



MONTHLY MEMORANDA. 



A CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE YEAR's WORK. 



'• Doing the right thing at the right time — that is success." 



T would be a futile attempt to give specified chrono- 

 logical directions strictly applicable to all the gardens 

 over the different sections of the United States with 

 their varied climatic and atmospheric conditions. In 

 the following chronological schedule of garden opera- 

 tions, the latitude and general climate of Philadelphia 

 (Southern Pennsylvania, South Jersey, etc.), is taken 

 as a basis. The growing season of the greater part of 

 New York and the New England States, etc., is several weeks 

 shorter at each end, with a month or two more of hot-house and 

 cold frame management, comparative leisure and opportunity 

 for planning, studying books, papers, catalogues, etc., during the 

 winter. Gardeners must govern themselves accordingly, and 

 make every effort to do the right thing just at the right time. 



JANUARY. 



Attend to cold frames, hot-beds and greenhouses, giving all 

 the fresh air possible during pleasant hours of the day, closing 

 again as a change of temperature occurs. Some days the sashes 

 may have to be opened and closed severa 1 times. Cold-frame 

 wintered plants need all the light that can be given, unless the 

 plants are frozen, when they may remain covered with shutters 

 or snow for two weeks without injury. 



Market celery or any other vegetable that you may have on 

 hand from last year's crop. 



Draw manure to the compost heap, and compost to the 

 fields. Order fertilizers. 



During a thaw secure soil for your beds, protecting well 

 with litter or coarse manure, to have it ready for use in making 

 hot-beds. 



Plan the season's work, aiming to have the ground occupied 

 all the time, embracing crops that are most profitable, yet do not 

 encroach upon each other. 



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