GARDENER'S CALENDAR 



FOR 



MADRAS AND BANGALORE. 



JANUARY. 



MADRAS. 



Mean temperature, 75*6. Average fall of rain, 1*29 inches. 



The season is too far advanced to sow the generality of vege- 

 tables with much prospect of success ; but turnips, carrots, love- 

 apples, vegetable-marrow, lettuce, endive, radish, mustard and 

 cress, spinage, and Nepaul spinage, may be sown during all this 

 month ; also successive crops of cabbage and knolkhol every 

 fortnight. Turnips are said to succeed best when placed in 

 rows ; they should be thinned to a distance of six inches from 

 each other. Carrots rarely succeed well when planted at this 

 season : they should be thinned, but not transplanted, except 

 when required for seed. Love-apples, when two or three inches 

 high, should be planted out in beds at five inches apart : after- 

 wards transplanted in rows two feet from each other with a 

 frame-work to run upon. Vegetable-marrow should be sown in 

 rich light soil: earth up the stems as they increase, and peg 

 down the leading branches at a joint. Lettuce and endive 

 should be planted in boxes, and transplanted at one foot apart 

 from each other ; they may also be sown in beds, and thinned to 

 the proper distance : a few days before use they should be blanch- 

 ed. Radish, mustard, and cress, may be sown every week or 

 ten days ; the two last throughout the year. Spinage, to be 

 sown in beds, and thinned until the plants are one foot apart. 

 Nepaul spinage should be planted in rows, with trellis work to 

 run over. This vegetable continues to flower and bring forth 

 fresh leaves throughout the year, and requires no care, Cab- 

 bage and knolkhol should be planted in boxes, and transplant- 

 ed into beds about three or four inches apart in three weeks or a 

 month. They may be transplanted a second or third time, espe- 



