A CALENDAR 



Flower Garden. — If increase of flowering trees and shrubs be 

 required, make use of any prunings from shrubberies and hedges, 

 if the weather be favourable, by planting them in a reserve piece of 

 ground. By the spring many of them will have taken root and be- 

 come strong plants by the autumn, 



JANUARY 23 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Cut back old Fuchsias so as to induce 

 them to shoot anew preparatory to re-potting. If space has not 

 been found for Strawberry-plants in the house they may be put into 

 pots and placed in a frame. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Attend to Strawberry bed. Gently 

 loosen the earth between the plants with a small fork and mulch 

 plentifully with long litter. 



_ Flower Garden. — Examine the plants in the herbaceous border 

 and divide, where desirable, such hardy perennials as Michaelmas 

 Daisies, Phloxes, Lupins, Sunflowers, Pyrethrums, etc. 



JANUARY 23 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Strike cuttings of any bedding plants 

 which may be suitable for the purpose, giving gentle bottom heat 

 in a moist atmosphere. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Prune the hardier kind of fruit trees 

 if the weather is open and free from severe frost. 



Flower Garden. — Prepare beds for planting Ranunculus and 

 Poppy Anemones by deep digging and working in cow-dung or well- 

 rotted other manure. 



JANUARY 24 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Pot crowns of Lily of the Valley where 

 they wiU have sufiicient heat, in order that they may bloom in six 

 or seven weeks' time. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Continue yesterday's pruning 

 operations. 



Flower Garden. — Continue yesterday's operations and plant 

 tubers of Ranunculus, placing them claw-side downwards about 

 2 inches deep and 4 inches apart. 



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