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soil, but only in dry weather. Turn over composts, 

 dung, and earth heaps. Prepare borders and or- 

 chards, &c. for planting in spring. Recruit ex- 

 hausted soils by the application or partial substi- 

 tution of such as is fresh and rich. 



Destroy the larvae of moths and every description 

 of garden enemies, by usual or unusual means. 



Fruit-room. Look over the loose fruit every ten 

 or twelve days. 



Fruit-cellar. Keep this close to retain an even 

 low temperature, never under 32 nor over 40 deg. 

 till May, the earliest period when it should be 

 opened. (2299.) 



5. Culinary hot-house department. 



Glass case without artificial heat. (S686.) Sow small 

 salads, radishes, and lettuce ; if the weather proves 

 mild they may do some good. Weed, take off de- 

 cayed leaves, and give abundance of air in dry 

 weather. Protect, in severe frosts, by mats or litter. 



Hot-beds and pits. (2678.) Begin to force asparagus, 

 sow small salads, and transplant lettuce to be forced 

 forward. Use the transplanter, in order that no 

 check may be given, or any occasion for watering 

 produced. Prepare cucumber-beds ; or if you have 

 begun see to them. Light is the grand thing to be 

 attended to, for heat, air, water, and earth you can 

 command at pleasure. Force mint, attend to mush- 

 rooms, and compost-making ; procuring earth, ma- 

 nures &c. Cover up at nights with all care ; but 

 avoid damps, by always giving a little air on fine 

 days, and all night, when there is danger of steam 

 of dung. 



Pinery. (2697.) Keep a steady heat; but little 

 air or water will be wanting, excepting to the kid- 

 neybeans and strawberries which you set in last 

 month. 



Forcing-houses. (2940.) Go on with the routine 

 culture, for houses which you have begun to force ; 

 and dig and prepare the borders of the others, but 

 it is too late for pruning or repairs. 



6. Flower-garden. Open ground de- 

 partment. 



Protect as directed for last month, and be liberal 

 in the use of ashes, rotten tan, litter, &c. to the 

 roots of the mare tender plants ; as to beds of florists' 

 bulbs, tender and half-hardy shrubs, as China roses, 

 hydrangeas, &c. where such plants can be ventured 

 in the borders. 



Routine culture. Prepare composts, manures, and 

 simple soils, and turn them over frequently. Much 

 of the value of all composts and soils, at least for the 

 florist, depends on their being sweet and mellow, 

 which is only to be attained by time and frequent 

 turnings. Attend to neatness in the application of 

 litter, ashes, and other protecting materials. 



Store-room. See that the frost is completely ex- 

 cluded. (1704, 1705.) 



7. Flower-garden. Hot-house depart- 

 ment. 



Glass case without artificial heat. (2686.) Attend 

 to alpines, and florists' flowers in frames ; also to 

 annuals, as directed for last month. 



Hot-beds and pits. (2678.) Go on forcing shrubs and 

 flowers, and blowing bulbs in water ; renovate by 

 linings, where necessary. If you have begun in 

 October to force roses, you will have them as well 

 as bulbs in blow by the middle of the month. See 



to bulbs in water-glasses, and take care to keep up a 

 succession of roses, bulbs, and most popular forcing- 

 flowers and shrubs. (6217. to 6219.) 



Green-house. (6211.) Minimum temperature 42 

 degrees, maximum 44 degrees, with fire-heat. 

 Water sparingly ; give air freely in good weather, 

 and remove decayed leaves as they appear. 



Dry-stove. (6176.) Minimum temperature for this 

 month 45 degrees, maximum, with fire-heat, 50 

 degrees. The more severe the weather out of doors, 

 give less water within ; but give air freely in fine 

 weather. 



Bark, or moist stove. (6214.) Keep a medium heat 

 of 55 degrees, or 58 degrees, and lessen water and 

 air. Attend to routine culture; but the grand 

 thing at this season is, to keep the fire-heat as re- 

 gular as possible ; for the ratio of increase of heat 

 from flues, after they are heated to a certain extent, 

 is such as often to overheat the house, and scorch or 

 desiccate the plants : hence, in our opinion, one of 

 the many advantages of adopting steam, by which 

 the pipes can never be heated much above 200 

 degrees. 



8. Pleasure-ground and shrubbery. 



Plant as in last month. (2077.) 



Prune (2110.) in fine weather. 



Protect as before. (2206.) 



Routine culture. Rake up leaves, and sweep them 

 from the lawns and gravel. Repair walks, and roll 

 them ; see that water stand on no part of their sur- 



Lay down turf, if you cannot help it ; but this is 

 not a good season ; September and March are the 

 best. (2101.) 



Prepare for planting by trenching, digging, &c. 

 (1870.) Rods and poles for tying up plants and for 

 twiners, spray or sticks for sticking climbers, as the 

 sweet-pea, &c. (1516.) 



9. Trees. Nursery department. 



Fruit-trees. (4361.) Complete neglected work as 

 far as weather will permit ; but if the season is 

 severe, defer it till February. Prepare tallies, &c. 



Ornamental trees and shrubs. (6539. and 6542.) 

 Finish delayed work, and attend to protecting tender 

 sorts. See to the seeds in store, and prune only in 

 very fine weather. Prepare tallies, labels, sticks, 

 stakes, poles, rods, spray, fronds, and other materials 

 of culture and management. Collect composts, 

 earths, and manures, and turn over those you have 

 got, so as the frost may thoroughly penetrate them. 



Forest trees. (6983.) Attend to the rot-heap, seed- 

 loft, and compost-ground ; and plant, or take up, or 

 prune only in fine weather : much depends on the 

 season, and other circumstances. (6884.) 



10. Trees. Permanent plantations and 

 park-scenery. 



Plant (2077.) only in fine weather, unless thorn- 

 hedges; or large trees of common sorts, with balls 

 of earth. 



Fell and prune (6941. and 6884.) where the trees 

 are not for transplanting, nor of the barking sorts. 



Thin out coppice-wood for poles, stakes, &c. 

 (6912.) 



Prepare for planting by the usual processes, and 

 by fencing and draining. (6817. and 6820.) 



Operate on ground and rocks, but not on build- 

 ings. 



