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Mushrooms. 



The same care that was directed last month in page 22, must be 

 continued with due attention to your mushroom beds; being par- 

 ticular to preserve them effectually from frost and wet, either of 

 which would destroy the spawn, and render your beds unpro- 

 ductive. 



Artichokes. 



If the weather is extremely severe, and you have not attend- 

 ed to it before, lay some dry long litter over the rows of your choice 

 globe artichokes, which will tend greatly to their preservation. 



SOUTHERN STATES. 



In Georgia, South Carolina, and other parts of the more southern 

 states, this will be a very principal month with the inhabitants for 

 making their kitchen gardens; for the method of doing which I can 

 only refer them to the kitchen garden for March and April, the 

 work recommended to be done in these months being quite appli- 

 cable with them at this season. 



In the more northerly of the southern states, much work can be 

 done in the kitchen garden this month; but the next will be their 

 important period, to which I refer them. 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



Pruning Wall and Espalier Trees. 



Peaches, nectarines, and apricots, should, in the middle states, 

 be pruned about the latter end of this month; the beginning of next 

 will be a good time in the eastern states. This must be duly at- 

 tended to before the buds are much swelled, for then many of them 

 would be unavoidably rubbed oft" in performing the work. 



Examine these trees well, and cut away all such parts as are 

 useless, both in old and young wood, and leave a proper supply of 

 the last year's shoots for next summer's bearing; all old wood that 

 has advanced a considerable length, and produced no young shoots 

 proper for bearing this year, nor support branches that do, are use- 

 less, and should now be cut out to make room for better; observing 

 that a general successional supply of young bearing wood, of the 

 best well placed shoots of last summer, must now be retained in all 

 parts of the tree at moderate distances, to bear the fruit to be 

 expected the ensuing season, at the same time cut away all the 

 ill-placed and superfluous shoots and very luxuriant growths, to- 

 gether with part of the former year's bearers, &c, to make room 

 for the successional bearing shoots, as observed in January. 



