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filled with cabbage or lettuce plants, giving air freely by 

 taking the sashes entirely oil' on sunny or mild days. 



DECEMBER. Attend to the celery that has been stored 

 away in trenches for winter use ; cover it little by little. 

 Protect spinach, onions, shallots, kale, etc., that were sown 

 in September, and cover rhubarb, sea-kale, asparagus, ar- 

 tichokes, etc., with five or six inches' thickness of long, 

 coarse manure. 



Store away pea-brush, and other materials of the kind, 

 from the weather. Commence to collect manure and to 

 prepare compost heaps. Give air to the cold frames on 

 sunny days. 



