6yb CALENDAR — JANUARY. 



to the precise seasons and circumstances, as these exist 

 in their several localities. 



JANUARY. 



Kitchen 6^«rc?e??.— Trench and manure borders for 

 early crops. Sow early frame peas, preferring the 

 white Warwick variety and early Charlton in the be- 

 ginning of the month, and Knight's dwarf marrowfat 

 about the end of the month ; Marshall's early dwarf, 

 early mazagan, and long-pod beans, during the first and 

 last weeks ; a few onions, early horn carrots, and round- 

 leaved spinach for early crops, on very light soils ; as 

 also curled parsley, if not done in August, on a warm 

 border; short-topped radish in two or three sowings, at 

 a week's interval, in the same sit-uation. ' In the last 

 fortnight sow black-seeded gotte, hardy green and 

 brown Dutch lettuce. 



Plant fruit-trees in general, in open weather, mulch- 

 ing the trees to protect them from the drought which 

 may occur in 'spring. Plant shallot and garlic. 



Prune all sorts of fruit-trees in mild weather or in 

 moderate frosts, nailing only in fine weather; wash those 

 trees infested with insects, with a mixture of soap-suds, 

 flowers of sulphur, and tobacco liquor.* 



'■^ We have not deemed it necessary to treat separately or at 

 length of the means of destroying insects ; many of the nostrums 

 recommended proving very inefficient. The wash here mention- 

 ed is perhaps the best and simplest for the stems. and branches 

 of wall fruit-trees. Some prefer making it of the consistence of 

 paint, and laying it on with a brush. One advice we would 

 tender to all gardeners — not to be anxious to kill the smaller 

 kinds of the feathered songsters, the soft-billed warblers of the 



