A CALENDAR 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Prepare a piece of ground for 

 sowing Parsnips. 



Flower Garden. — Look to the paths and decide whether the gravel 

 must be renewed or turned, and act accordingly. 



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JANUARY 8 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Look through Azaleas and advance 

 them by greater heat, if required. Plant Potatoes in frame for an 

 early crop. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — In a warm dry soil make first 

 sowing of Early Long-pod Broad Beans. 



Flower Garden, — Continue the repair of gravel paths. 



JANUARY 9 



Greenhouse and Frames. — ^Look through Cinerarias; if large 

 plants are requured, transplant into larger pots and pinch off tops to 

 produce bushy heads. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Put a fresh top-dressing of half- 

 rotted manure on Asparagus bed. 



Flower Garden. — Prune Honeysuckle and cut out old and de- 

 cayed branches from Lilac bushes, but do not interfere with last 

 year's shoots.. 



JANUARY 10 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Sow seeds of tuberous Begonias, 

 Fuchsias and Peleirgoniums. Sow Cucumber seeds in hot-bed for 

 bearing in thr^e months' time. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Make a small sowing of Early Peas 

 in a favourable spot. 



Flower Garden. — ^Nail and train creepers to wall and fences where 

 they require it. 



JANUARY II 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Sow seeds of Gloxinias for flowering 

 the same season, and proceed with potting off singly all cuttings 

 of Geraniums, Verbenas, etc., now in store-pots. 



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