SECT. XX. 



DECEMBER. 



Strazv, damp or mufty, remove from ft ore rooms. 

 Frojl, guard againft the ill effects of every where. 

 Wheat Jlraw, ufeful to protect things, fee rariifh, 233. 

 Vegetables, before hard fro ft, take up, fee laft month. 

 Artichokes, afparagus, and rafpberries, (if not before) 



give their winter dreflingto foon, 202, £05, 164?. 

 Endive, tie up when perfe&ly dry, and ridge fome, 220. 

 Earth up (dry) celery high, alfo cauliflowers, chardons, 



brocoli, favoys, cabbages, &c. pre fling the mould. 

 Cauliflcw/rs and lettuces in frames, &c. manage, 2 14,226. 

 Planting, prepare for, and open the holes ready, 29, 97, 

 Vacant ground, clean, dung, rough, dig, or trench, 46. 

 Banroiu, make ufe of when froft to wheel in dung, &c. 

 Hot-beds, fee and manage the materials well for, 170. 

 Cucumbers maybe fown in the laft week, 174, 176. 

 Co?npo/is, make, and incorporate well fey turning over. 

 Orchards, prune trees, drefs, dig, or plough the foil, 43. 

 Prune wall pear trees, efpaliers, and fhrubs, 153; 160. 

 Hedges, ditches, and drains, manage as the cafe requires. 

 Drain wet from orchard, garden, nurfery, &c. 

 Spring, have a conftant eye to, and prepare things for. 



SOW 



Beans, 207. Peas, 231. Radices, 233. Carrots may 

 be tried as radifhes. Lettuces ditto, under glafs in a 

 warm border. Small jallad, as crejs, ?nujlard, and 

 lap lettuce, on a flight heat, 227, 249. 



PLANT 



Mint on heat, 253. Trees and Jhrubs of the hardy- 

 deciduous kind, in open weather, covering the 

 roots and flaking ; if againft a wall faften them to 

 it, 97, &c. 



PROPAGATE 



By fuckers^ cuttings, layers, &c. fee October, 04, &c. 



f LOWERS* 



