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GARDEKIHG EOR PLEASURE. 



NOVEMBER. 



Greenhouse and Flower-Garden. — All plants should now 

 be in-doors ; a sharp look-out must be kept for cold snaps. 

 These often come very unexpectedly in November, and as many 

 plants are injured by frost in this as there are in the colder 

 months, when the enemy is more closely watched for. When fire 

 heat is freely used, be careful to keep up the proper supply of 

 moisture by syringing, sprinkling the paths, etc. In the flower- 

 garden nothing is now to be done except to clean off dead stalks 

 and straw up tender roses, vines, etc., and wherever there is time, 

 to. dig up and rake the borders, as it will greatly facilitate 

 spring work. All beds where hyacinths or other fall bulbs have 

 been planted, had better be covered with rough litter or leaves 

 to the depth of two or three inches. If short, thoroughly de- 

 cayed manure can be spared, a good sprinkling spread over the 

 lawn will help it to a finer growth in spring. 



Fruit-Garden. — In cold sections the hay or straw mulching 

 recommended in the chapter on the Strawberry may be put on 

 during the last of this month. Grape-vines and fruit-trees gener- 

 ally should be pruned, and if wood of the vine is wanted for cut- 

 tings, or cions of fruit-trees for grafts, they should be tied in small 

 neat bunches and buried in the ground until spring. 



Vegetable Garden. — All celery that is to be stored for 

 winter use, should be put away before the end of the month in all 

 places north of Richmond, Va. ; south of that it may be left in 

 most places in the rows where grown if covered up. Directions 

 for storing celery for winter are given under Celery. The 

 stalks of asparagus beds should be cut over, and as asparagus some- 

 times becomes a weed, it is better to burn the stems if there are 

 berries on them. Spread a heavy dressing of rough manure three 

 or four inches thick on the beds. All roots that are yet in the 

 ground and not designed to be left there all winter, must be dug 

 up in this latitude before the middle of the month, or they may be 

 frozen in until spring ; onions, spinach, sprouts, cabbage, or lettuce 

 plants that are outside should be covered with two or three inches 

 of leaves, salt hay, or straw, to protect during winter. Cabbages 

 that have headed may be usually preserved against injury by frost 

 until the middle of next month, by simply pulling them up and 

 packing them close together in a dry spot in the open field with 

 the heads down, and roots up ; on the approach of cold weather in 

 December, they should be covered up with leaves as high as the tops 



