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CALENDAR OF GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR NOVEMBER. 



Fires require to be kept up in the plant stoves according to the state of the 

 weather : if the plants are infected by insects, fumigating or sulphuring should be 

 adopted according to the kind of insects by which they are infected. The heat 

 of the orchidaceous house should now be lowered, and have less humidity so as to 

 allow the plants to have a season of rest. 



Greenhouse plants should have plenty of air as long as the weather continues 

 mild ; if the month should prove very wet, fires should be lighted occasionally 

 during the day to dry up the damp : it should be borne in mind that the fires 

 should be lighted only in such weather as plenty of air can be given, or in frosty 

 nights, otherwise it will occasion more harm than good. 



Fires may be lighted in vineries to protect late crops of grapes from the damp. 



Mushroom beds may now be made with success.. 



Sea-kale should now be covered with leaves, &c. 



Radishes should now be sown in frames for spring use. 



Hyacinths should now be potted for forcing, and Tulips and Crocuses should 

 be planted in the open ground. 



Form beds of Pansies for flowering next season. 



Protect half-hardy Alpines in frames, and those which are tender and out of 

 doors may be protected by placing around them twigs of broom, Hazel or Birch, 

 at a little distance, so as to allow of a free circulating air ; such protection is 

 oftentimes more effectual than close covering, particularly to those plants which 

 are soft-wooded, and are liable to damp off. The soil also around the protected 

 plants should be kept loosened ; as plants never suffer so much from frost where 

 the soil is kept loosened, as they do in firm unstirred soil. 



