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CALENDAR. 



In drawing up a calendar of culture to run through 

 the greater part of the year, we would wish it to be 

 understood, as a preface, that whatever remarks are 

 here made are intended to apply chiefly to the culture 

 of the apple in kitchen gardens ; and although there 

 is, of course, an identity of principle, as far as root- 

 management is concerned, as also thinning and prun- 

 ing, with those under orchard culture, yet we think 

 it will be most desirable to give our observations a 

 special character, and to make them as far as possible 

 apply to the apple under the various artistical modes 

 of training now in use. These, it is well known, are 

 various, as we have exemplified in the preceding por- 

 tion of the volume on the apple ; and although to 

 treat the matter at large would require too much 

 space for the limits assigned us, yet we hope so to 

 simplify the general principles as to enable every 

 person, however unpractised, to modify and shape his 

 course consistently with the kind and mode of train- 

 ing. 



JANUARY. 



Whatever we can recommend for the apple, whe- 

 ther with regard to root or top management, in Janu- 

 ary, might be nearly as well performed either a month 

 earlier or a month later. AVe deem it necessary to 



