662 CALENDAR FOR LOW-COUXTRY 



November. Weather usually wet and fairly cool. All general planting 

 work should be completed this month. Pruning or thinning out of shrubs, 

 trees, etc., should now be attended to. Sow peas, beans, beet and other 

 vegetables. Yams are now ripe and should be lifted and stored in sand, in a 

 cool shed. Attend to pollinating Vanilla flowers, now in season. Prune 

 roses that have finished flowering. See to drainage and soil requirements of 

 pot plants. Principal fruits in season : Bullock's-heart, pine-apple, soursop. 

 Flowers : Aristolochia (several spp.), Palicourea, Acalypaya sanderina, etc. 



December. Generally a moderately wet month, with fairly strong, 

 winds. Support all tender plants and young trees in exposed situations, fixing 

 a stout stick in the ground close to the plant, and tying the latter to it. 

 Afford shade to such plants as require it. Collect seeds of flowering plants, 

 annuals, etc., and store when dry in stoppered jars. Collect fallen leaves, and 

 place them in a pit or trench to form leaf-mould. Principal fruits in season : 

 Custard-apple, wood-apple, Dillenia indica, and Elaeocarpus edulis. Flowers: 

 Wagatea spicata, Naiavelia zeylanica, Pachira insignis, Wonnia Burbidgei 

 Humboldtia laurifolia, Alstonia macrophylla, etc. 



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FUINTKD BY H. W. CAVE & CO., CQLOMUO. 



