Calendar of Operations 



CHAPTER XXII. 



CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. 



IN European countries and the Eastern States of America 

 many works on gardening have been written in calendar 

 form, such a calendar being very convenient for reference or 

 as a guide for systematic work throughout the year. 



Of course, no calendarial directions can be, at the same time, 

 suitable to all the different localities or districts of our great 

 State. It may be pouring rain and cold weather in Humboldt 

 county and on the same day very dry and quite warm in the 

 counties south of Tehachipi; we have cold frosty nights in 

 Shasta county when the oranges are ripening in the county 

 adjoining. While it would be impossible to provide for every 

 contingency, yet, along the coast and in the great valleys, the 

 difference in temperature is not so wide but that a general system 

 of operation might apply to all. The seasons themselves, how- 

 ever, vary so much that many circumstances must be taken into 

 consideration, such as the state of the weather, the condition of 

 the soil, etc. In some years, the Winter rains fall much earlier 

 than in others; one season may have rainfall enough to allow 

 plowing and spading to be commenced early in September, while, 

 in other years, the ground may remain dry and hard until late in 

 November. 



Keeping all this in view, there are submitted in this chapter, 

 in the form of a Gardening Calendar, a series of hints and sug- 

 gestions based on the experience of the writer, which, it is be- 

 lieved, will be found useful and profitable to growers in Cali- 

 fornia, it being left to the good judgment of such to make the 

 necessary modifications when a season has been abnormal or if 

 their locations should happen to be where the temperature goes 

 to an extreme in any way. 



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