A CALENDAR 



FEBRUARY 6 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Look to the autumn-made cuttings 

 and transplant them into the pots in which they are to flower. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Look to the Peach, Apricot and 

 Nectarine trees, and un-nail and prune them one by one. 



Flower Garden. — Apply slaked lime to any vacant borders at 

 the rate of a shovelful to the square yard. It will prove an excellent 

 sweetener to the ground. 



FEBRUARY 7 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Make cuttings of all kinds of bedding- 

 out plants which it is desired to propagate. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Continue yesterday's task. 



Flower Garden. — Guard Crocuses, Tulips, Hyacinths, etc., from 

 the attacks of mice, by plunging in the earth jars half filled with 

 water to serve as traps; of sparrows, by spreading light netting; 

 and of snails by laying down Cabbage leaves, which must be examined 

 every night. 



FEBRUARY 8 



Greenhouse and Frames^ — ^Look to the Chrysanthemum cuttings, 

 as those which have made root should now be re-potted in light 

 sandy soil. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — ^Mulch the whole of the borders in 

 which fruit trees are growing; just round the stems of the trees is 

 insufficient. 



Flower Garden. — Sweep and roll turf and gravel to consolidate 

 after frost. 



FEBRUARY 9 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Remove all dead wood from the climbers 

 and train the new shoots into their proper places. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — If Raspberry canes have not 

 already been pruned they should be done now. 



Flower Garden. — Top-dress, turn, renew and re-lay the grass 

 edgings of walks. 



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