The Gardener's Calendar 



those taken right from the ground or pit. Try 

 this plan, and see what you think of it. 



The garden may be plowed now. Do not 

 attempt to level the ground. Leave it in 

 ridges, so that frost can get at it easily. 



Give rhubarb and asparagus a good top dress- 

 ing of fine manure, and then cover with coarse 

 litter. Take up a few plants and put them in 

 a box, for winter forcing. Or, if there is room 

 for them, give them a place in the cold-frame. 

 The cellar, however, will be the best place for 

 them, if you can give them light. 



DECEMBER 



There will be little to do this month in con- 

 nection with the garden, if ever;^i:hing was 

 given the attention it deserved last month. It 

 may be well to go over it again, and make a 

 final clearing-up, however, to make sure that 

 nothing was left undone. 



Let me caution the reader as to the care of 

 the cellar in which vegetables are stored. See 

 that it is so well banked that frost cannot 

 penetrate it. But make ample provision for 

 ventilation. Have a pipe or wooden tube con- 

 nected with one of the windows in such a man- 



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