2 CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS—JANUARY. 
JANUARY. 
Continue to fell and cut up timber. Thin plantations, 
prune hedges, clear out all ditches and conduits which may 
not have undergone a clearance since the fall of the leaf. In 
frosty weather at this season, drive to the depot all accumula- 
tions of decayed leaves for forming vegetable mould, the heaps 
of which should be completed by this time. 
Open weather at this season is suitable for planting all sorts 
of forest trees, particularly in dry situations. 
As the plots in the nursery become clear of plants, dig the 
ground over roughly, or dig it up into ridges, so that it may 
be exposed to the influence of frost. 
In removing from the nursery one-year transplanted larches 
or pines, which generally stand in lines nine to twelve inches 
apart, if a portion of them is required to be kept for another 
year, remove only every second or alternate line; and if 
the plants in the remaining lines stand closer than about 
three inches apart, they should be loosened with a spade 
or fork, and thinned to about that distance, thus leaving 
the lines about eighteen to twenty-four inches apart, and 
the plants about three inches asunder—the proper distance 
for their becoming two-year transplanted plants. When thus 
thinned out, dig the ground between the lines. Similar treat- 
ment and thinning out should be practised on all one-year 
transplanted plants where they have not sufficient space for 
growing, and are intended to become two years transplanted. 
If the weather is open and dry, the sowing of all seeds 
which were kept in pits during summer should now be com- 
pleted ; such as hawthorn, holly, mountain-ash, yew-tree, etc. 
If acorns or chestnuts are not yet sown, this work should be 
completed as soon as possible. 
Insert cuttings of deciduous plants that are propagated by 
that means, such as poplars, willows, elders, etc. 
Scotch and other pine cones are commonly ripe at this 
season; severe frost changes them from a deep green to a grey 
colour, giving them a hard surface, which indicates their matu- 
