373 CALENDAR—JANUARY. 
JANUARY. 
Kitchen Garden.—Trench ana manure borders for early 
erops. Sow early frame peas, preferring the Warwick 
variety and early Charlton in the beginning of the month, 
the Knight’s dwarf marrowfat about the end of the month; 
Marshall’s carly dwarf, early mazagan, and long-pod beans, 
during the first and last weeks; a few onions, early horn 
carrots, and round-leaved spinach for early crops, on very 
light soils; as also curled parsley, if not done in August, 
on a warm border; short-topped radish in two or three 
sowings, at a week’s interval, in the same situation. In 
the last fortnight sow black-seeded gotte, hardy green and 
brown Dutch lettuce. 
Plant fruit-trees in general, in open weather, mulching 
the trees to protect them from the drought which may oe- 
cur in spring. Plant shallot and garlic. All the above 
one to two months later north. 
Prune all sorts of fruit-trees in mild weather or in 
moderate frosts, nailing only in fine weather; wash those 
trees infested with insects, with a mixture of soap-suds, 
flowers of sulphur, and tobacco liquor.* 
* We have not deemed it necessary to treat separately or at length of the 
means of destroying insects; many of the nostrums recommended proving 
very efficient. The wash here mentioned is perhaps the best and simplest 
for the stems and branches of wall fruit-trees. Some prefer making it of 
the consistence of paint, and laying it on with a brush. One advice we 
would tender to all gardeners—not to be anxious to kill the smaller kinds 
of the feathered songsters, the soft-billed warblers of the garden, which are 
often suspected of attacking blossoms of fruit when they are only picking off 
caterpillars or aphides, their favorite food. Even the common sparrow and 
the blue titmouse are useful in destroying the larvee of the moths which in- 
fest the fruit-trees. In hot-houses, the keeping of the walls and frame- 
work clean, by frequent white-washing and painting, is very important ; 
and muck benefit results from occasionally filling them with the smoke of 
tobaeco-paper, and then thoroughly syringing the plants. 
