18 CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS—DECEMBER. 
The berries of hawthorn, mountain ash, holly, and 
common ash, should be collected by this time. They should 
either be mixed up with sandy soil and pitted where they 
may be turned over every two or three months ; or, as these 
do not vegetate the first year, they may be now sown into 
rich prepared nursery ground ; and on the surface of the same 
ground an annual crop may be raised during the first summer 
of a light nature, as onion, radish, cauliflower, or cabbage 
plants. These being carefully removed, the tree crop will 
appear in the second, and to some extent, with respect to 
hollies, in the third summer. 
Turn over roughly or ridge up nursery ground, that it may 
become pulverized and enriched by the influence of frost. 
Prune and dress hedges, forking out and removing every 
perennial weed in the ground on each side, within a yard of 
the fence. 
