40 Monthly Calendar. 



MONTHLY CALENDAR 



OF 



HORTICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE, 



FOR JANUARY. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Grape Vines in green-houses and graperies, that have not yet been 

 pruned, the present opportunity may be taken for the purpose. Cut 

 away all small weak wood, leaving the shoots at good distance, that the 

 sun may penetrate to the green-house plants on the stages, when the 

 vines begin to start in the spring. Be careful and not leave too nmch 

 length of wood, as nothing is so injurious, particularly to young vines, 

 as overi)earing them with fruit. 



Strawberry Plants in pots may be now taken into the green-house, if 

 the advantage of a stove can be had, they may be much forwarded in 

 their fruiting by removing them into it afterthe fruit is set ; give them a 

 good supply of water. 



Grape Eijes or Cuttings may be put into the hot-bed this month and 

 their growth much forwarded; they should be put singly into number 

 one pots. 



FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 



Camellias will now be rapidly swelling their flower buds, and will re- 

 quire considerable water. 



Geraniums which were potted into number one pots in the fall, will 

 now require to be shifted into the second size. 



Calceolarias, which were raised from seed or cuttings, will now re- 

 quire repotting. 



Roses should now have a good supply of water, and those that are 

 tall and straggling, headed down or trimmed of small superfluous 

 branches. 



Mignonette and ten-weekstocks now sown in the green-house, will make 

 fine plants to flower in the open garden in May. 



Schizanthuses of the different species and varieties, should be repot- 

 ted, being careful to put them in a very light rich soil. 



Ranunculuses that were not planted in the fall, from the early setting 

 in of the cold weather, will flower fine if planted this month in frames, 

 and protected from frost. The seed should be sown this month in shal- 

 low pans or boxes and placed in the frame or green-house. 



Polyanthus and Auricula seed should now be sown in shallow pans or 

 boxes, and placed in the green-house. 



Tuberoses, Jacobean lilies, and Tiger flowers may be brought for- 

 ward in hot-beds. 



Dahlia seed sown in the latter end of the month in the hot-bed, and 

 the plants shifted two or three times until May, will produce their flow- 

 ers in August. Where plants are wanted to bloom very early, the old 

 roots should now be laid in a hot-bed, and when the young shoots are an 

 inch long, the tubers should be parted, and placed into number two 

 pots. 



Young Plants of Lobelia fulgens and splendens should be placed in 

 the hot-bed, if wanted to flower strong and beautiful. Vol. I, p. 56. 



