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Mushrooms. 
The same care that was directed last month in page 22, must be 
continued with due attention to jour mushroom beds; being par- 
ticular to preserve them effectually from frost and wet, either of 
which would destroy the spawn, and render your beds unpro- 
ductive. 
Artichokes. 
If the weather is extremely severe, and you have not attend- 
ed to it before, lay some dry long litter over the rows of your choice 
globe artichokes, which will tend greatly to their preservation. 
SOUTHERN STATES. 
In Georgia, South Carolina, and other parts of the more southern 
states, this will be a very principal month with the inhabitants for 
making their kitchen gardens; for the method of doing which I can 
only refer them to the kitchen garden for March and April, the 
work recommended to be done in these months being quite appli- 
cable with them at this season. 
In the more northerly of the southern states, much work can be 
done in the kitchen garden this month; but the next will be their 
important period, to which I refer them. 
THE FRUIT GARDEN. 
Pruning Wall and Espalier Trees. 
Peaches, nectarines, and apricots, should, in the middle states, 
be pruned about the latter end of this month; the beginning of nest 
will be a good time in the eastern states. This must be duly at- 
tended to before the buds are much swelled, for then many of them 
would be unavoidably rubbed off in performing the work. 
Examine these trees well, and cut away all such parts as are 
useless, both in old and young wood, and leave a proper supply of 
the last year's shoots for next summer's bearing; all old wood that 
has advanced a considerable length, and produced no young shoots 
proper for bearing this year, nor support branches that do, are use- 
less, and should now be cut out to make room for better; observing 
that a general successional supply of young bearing wood, of the 
best well placed shoots of last summer, must now be retained in all 
parts of the tree at moderate distances, to bear the fruit to be 
expected the ensuing season, at the same time cut away all the 
ill-placed and superiluous shoots and very luxuriant growths, to- 
gether with part of the former year's bearers, &c., tomake room 
for the successional bearing shoots, as observed in January. 
