CALENDAR 
Tue instructions given in the following calendar are, of 
zourse, adapted to the climate of Britain, where the cold 
is more enduring and greater in the average, but not so 
excessive as that usually experienced in the winters of the 
United States, especially those of the northern and middle 
regions, where little if any work can be done in the open 
air, in the kitchen or flower gardens, during the months of 
January and February. Now and then, in the latter 
month, when the frost may happen to leave the earth for a 
brief period, the planting of some kinds of early peas, cab- 
bages, with a few others of the more early vegetables, may 
be effected. . In the more southerly portions of the Union, 
many of the instructions given in the calendar for January ° 
and February may be followed out, whilst those adapted 
to the condition of things in the hot months of June and 
July would require much greater modification. Seeing 
the great differences presented by the American climate 
during the same months in the various latitudes, we have 
chosen to give the English Calendar with little alteration, 
trusting to the good common sense of the American garden- 
ers to make use of the valuable suggestions and directions 
which it contains, with such modifications as they may find 
requisite to adapt them to the precise seasons and circum- 
stances, as these exist in their several localities. Most of 
the early out door work herein specified should be delayed 
two months later in the Northern States. 
