GARDENING CALENDAR FOR JANUARY. 
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may be left uniil the last, as it is very late ; 
protect all in blossom. 
Chestnuts. — If introduced at all, they must 
be planted around the outskirts, where they 
will serve for shelter. 
Currants. — Propagate all the best sorts ; 
make new plantations when required ; finish 
pruning ; and, when digging, add a portion of 
well decomposed manure. 
Filberts. — Finish pruning ; form them 
into open bushes, as practised with the cur- 
rants: the trees may be cup-shaped. 
Figs. — It is presumed these are well 
covered ; more covering may be added if the 
weather is severe. 
Gooseberries. — Complete the new planta- 
tions, and finish pruning ; break off (not cut) 
the suckers ; have the ground dug and 
manured ; put in cuttings of the best sorts, a 
foot in length, and insert two-thirds in the 
soil, leaving only three eyes at the top, all 
the rest being cut away. 
Grafts. — Those which had to be taken off 
early, or have been procured, may be pre- 
served fresh by thrusting them half-way in 
damp sand or soil, or into a potato. 
Medlars. — Thin out the irregular branches 
of established trees, keeping them open in the 
centre, to admit light and air. 
Mulberries. — Prune so as to leave the 
centre open, without crowded or crossing 
branches. 
Nectarines. — Prune, nail, and thin the 
buds towards the middle and end of the month; 
prepare to protect the blossom. It is a good 
plan to use a board, to project at the top nine 
inches, to which the awning may be attached. 
Peaches. — If the buds swell fast finish the 
pruning, thinning of buds, and nailing, early; 
prepare materials, as netting, and have a board 
along the top of the wall to ward off more 
effectually the frost and wet, to protect them 
when in blossom. 
Pears. — These may be planted ; prune and 
train thoseon wallsorespaliers; stake and mulch 
those recently transplanted. Young trees must 
be cut sparingly, as it induces too vigorous 
growth. Several of the French sorts bear 
best on the young wood, and may be treated 
accordingly. Keep the standards well thinned 
of wood. 
Plums. — Prune and train, laying in a mo- 
derate quantity of young wood, the fruit being 
better thereon than on spurs. 
Quinces. — These may be now planted. It 
is usual to graft pears upon the quince stock ; 
and it is desirable to have a few thus done, as 
they conic earlier. 
Raspberries. — Make, new plantations ; 
prune, tie, and dig the old plantations, adding 
a portion of manure ; dig out all the suckers 
not required. 
Stocks for grafting upon should be propa- 
gated by layers, seeds, and root cuttings ; 
those from root-cuttings and seeds are pre- 
ferred : root cuttings are best. 
Vines may be planted ; prune and train 
as soon as possible ; this, in some degree, 
will prevent bleeding. 
THE FORCING GARDEN. 
General Directions. — In watering, always 
use rain water warmed to the temperature in 
which the plants are growing ; this can be 
done by keeping the engine and watering cans 
filled over night, or by mixing with warm 
water. When giving air, avoid causing cur- 
rents, and only admit it by the top ventilators, 
and that early in the day ; shut up early, so 
as to have the house warmed as much as pos- 
sible by sun heat ; it will be all the better if 
the thermometer rise a few degrees after the 
air is taken off ; these instruments should be 
used in every department, although the expe- 
rienced can do without them. In dull and 
severe weather it is sometimes necessary to 
make fires during the day, when a little air 
may be given. It is not advisable, when the 
weather is extremely cold at night, to keep up 
the exact heat required, as a few degrees 
lower will do ; but it must be kept nearly 
right during the day, particularly when the 
plants are in blossom. Give all the houses a 
thorough cleaning before forcing is com- 
menced. All forcing-houses and pits should 
be covered at night, to economize fire heat, 
excess of which is both expensive and hurtful. 
Asparagus. — Temperature, 55 degrees by 
day, 50 degrees at night. Take every advan- 
tage of sun heat; give a little air daily; shut up 
early ; and water with tepid water, a little 
salted : prepare a succession bed. 
Cherries. — Temperature, from 45 to 50 
degrees by day, 40 degrees at night. Admit air 
freely until the trees come into blossom ; great 
caution is then necessary. Keep the atmo- 
sphere steady and moist ; use little fire heat 
at night, but apply it during the day in dull 
weather, always giving a little air at the same 
time. 
Cucumbers. — Temperature, 70 degrees by 
day, 65 degrees at night. Those in houses 
should be syringed freely with clear soot and 
manure water. Train always on a trellis, and 
stop at every joint when established ; see that 
the steam of dung linings does not enter the 
frames ; cover carefully at night. 
Figs. — Temperature, 50 degrees by da) - , 45 
degrees at night. Syringe often ; use tepid 
liquid manure when they are growing fast. 
Those in pots should be brought on gradually, 
and can be ripened in the stove or vinery. 
Kidney Beans. — Temperature, 60 degrees by 
day. •")") degrees at night. Sow either ill a box 
