418 CALENDAR — NOVEMBER. 



November. 



Kitchen Garden. — Sow early frame pens, preferring 

 the Warwick variety, and mazagan beans, in the second 

 week, for an early crop. Protect endive, celery, arti- 

 choke, sea-kale, with stable-litter or ferns; mulch as- 

 paragus with hotbed dung; take up endive, late cauli- 

 flower, early broccoli, and lettuces, and lay them in an 

 open shed, or in old cucumber and melon-pits, which 

 will pnotect them from frost, and afford a supply dur- 

 ing winter. Force rhubarb and sea-kale in the open 

 border, under boxes or cases, surrounded and covered 

 with well-fermented stable-litter. 



Fruit gar den. ^-V\diiit all sorts of fruit trees in fine 

 weather, giving an abundant supply of water to settle 

 the earth about the roots. Commence and carry on 

 the various operations of pruning and nailing when the 

 weather may permit. Take off such late sorts of apples 

 and pears as may remain on the trees, and lay them 

 carefully in the fruit-room ; which place will require 

 frequent examination, and the removal of all decayed 

 fruit. 



Foreing. — In hotbeds and pits keep up the requisite 

 degree of heat by frequent additions to the linings. 

 Cucumbers and pines, on hotbeds, will require more 

 than ordinary attention, to prevent them damping off 

 from too much moisture. Where a circulation of hot 

 water in pipes is employed for heating,. the necessary 

 temperature and dryness are much more under the con- 

 trol of the gardener. Force asparagus, rhubarb, and 

 sea-kale, in tlie mushroom-house or pits for a supply at 

 Christmas. Attend to the forcinir of mushrooms. In 



