A KALENDAR 



Of Work to he performed in each Month of the Year, 



JANUAEY. 



Kitchen-Garden. — In our variable climate, what is to be done this 

 month depends much on the state of the weather ; but, if it is not 

 deep snow, there is always something to be done advantageously. 

 Even deep snow gives time for cleaning, thrashing, and sorting of 

 seeds, preparing stakes and pea-sticks, tying mats, sorting bulbs, and 

 many similar sorts of employment. Dry frost makes an opportunity of 

 manuring land with ease and neatness, and also of pruning gooseberries^ 

 currants, and other hardy shrubs, and of clearing away dead trees and 

 bushes, and thinning others. If the weather is mild and open, a few 

 seeds may be sown, but not in great quantities ; in general, land is now 

 troublesome to work ; fresh digged, or forked (if it has been ridge- 

 trenched), works best. Sow, for early use, radishes and carrots on a 

 warm sunny border ) peas, beans, round spinage, parsley 3 small salad 

 in frames, old mint roots on heat under glass will soon give a supply of 

 green mint. Pot over and cover seacale, and rhubarb ; where a suc- 

 cession is required, some may be forced on heat, some with dry litter, 

 ashes, or even with light mould. Remember that the blanching of sea- 

 cale depends on the exclusion of the light and air, either of which spoils 

 it. Attend to lettuces and cauliflowers in frames, endive in frames or 

 under hoops ; in mild weather, if dry, let them have as much air as pos- 

 sible ; in hard frost, cover well. A few onions for eating green should 

 now be sown, cover with dry litter till they are up. Mushroom beds 

 must be most carefully protected from wet and frost, cover well with 

 dry litter j mats or canvass covering is indispensably necessary, over 

 the litter, to keep it firm and throw off the wet. Turn dunghills and 

 compost heaps. I say it at once for the whole year, destroy vermin 

 wherever you can find them. 



