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CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS, 
A CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS will, it is hoped, be a useful 
guide in recording the work that is usually performed in 
nursery and forest management throughout the year; but as 
much depends on the state of the weather, and on the climate 
of the district in which the work is going on, the precise 
dates cannot in all cases be adhered to. 
The opening up of one season may, during spring, be early, 
and accompanied with drought; the next may be the very 
reverse ; and that not unfrequently makes the difference of a 
month in the period for the safe transplantation of forest plants. 
With respect to all plants which come early into leaf— 
such as hawthorn, larch, etc.—if the nursery ground possesses 
a climate warmer than that where the plants are to be 
inserted, when the planting cannot be performed sufficiently 
early, the plants should be removed to the later district before 
the buds are expanded, and should be carefully secured in the 
ground against drought till they are planted out. 
Both in the nursery and in the forest, the busiest period 
by far in the twelve months occurs in spring, during open 
weather in March and April. It should therefore be the 
aim of the manager to leave no description of work to be 
performed at that period, which can well be done at a time 
when the work is less pressing. 
Though much may be accomplished by practical informa- 
tion of the time and the circumstances most suitable for the 
operations with respect to forest trees, yet directions in 
writing generally fall far short of the assistance and success 
derived from the exercise of common sense and experience. 
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