CHAPTER XIII 

 THE GARDEN CALENDAR 



JANUARY 



The planting season for all but tender growths is 

 at hand and new gardening operations should be 

 under full sway. Do not send east of the Rocky 

 Mountains for either seeds or plants. None are so 

 well adapted to local conditions as home-grown stock, 

 and our seeds are famous the world over. Conditions 

 are so entirely different with us that vegetation cul- 

 tivated under other methods and environment is not 

 so well suited to our gardens as that grown here. 

 There is also another good business reason for 

 patronizing local dealers ; they are get-at-able in case 

 you receive unsatisfactory stock. 



GENERAL WORK 



Now is the time to attend to manuring and spad- 

 ing vacant beds and borders. After spading leave 

 the ground in a rough state; don't rake it down, as 

 the sun and air will do more good and it will leave 

 the ground in a more friable condition than if raked 

 smooth. Don't be afraid to enrich abundantly as 

 the ground will be in better condition for spring 

 planting. 



Get rid of all rubbish, dead weeds, etc., so that 

 when the spring crop of garden pests hatches it 

 will find less shelter. Such a cleaning up removes 

 many insects in a dormant state, or their eggs, and 

 very often both insects and eggs. This garden rub- 

 bish should always be burned or deeply composted. 



