24 T^he Gardeners Kalendar. Jan. 

 peas haulm, otherwife the roots will be in 

 great danger of perishing. 



Turn over your heaps of compoft, that 

 the frofl: may mellow them, and break the 

 clods: the oftener thefe are turned, the fooner 

 they will be fit for ufe. You fhould alfo, at 

 this feafon, make new heaps of compoft in 

 mild weather, when there is more leifure for 

 doing It, than when the feafon is farther ad- 

 vanced, and many other neceffary works re- 

 quire, attention ; therefore at fuch times when 

 the labourers have not full employment in the 

 garden, the preparing of comports for the pots 

 and borders (hould not be negleded, as thefe 

 fhould have time to lie and fweeten before they 

 are ufed: for without this, there can be fmall 

 hopes of having choice flowers in any tolerable 

 degree of perfedlion. 



Your choice Carnations and Auriculas 

 /hould be guarded from heavy rains, fnow, 

 and fevere froft, which are often very deftruc- 

 tive to them 5 but they fliouid have as much 

 free air as pofTible in mild weather, other- 

 wife they will draw up weak, and will not 

 blov/ ftrong. At this feafon you muft alfo be 

 careful to protect them from vermin, which, 

 for want of other food, will deftroy them ; 

 particularly rats and mice often make great 



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