GARDENING CALENDAR FOR, FEBRUARY. 
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crowns be covered with pots, but they must be 
marked with stakes, and care is requisite in 
the uncovering. 
Strawberries. — Temperature from 55 to 60 
degrees by day ; 50 degrees by night. As 
soon as the fruit is set, increase the heat and 
give copious waterings of liquid manure ; tie 
out the fruit stalks to short stakes ; maintain 
a moist atmosphere up to the time of ripening. 
Bring in another succession of plants; start 
them in a cool house, and bring them on gra- 
dually. 
Vinery. — Temperature from 70 to 80 de- 
grees by day j 65 to 70 degrees by night. 
Be careful in admitting air, and let it be only 
at the top ventilators ; nail on canvas at the 
openings, to break the rush of air ; give and 
take away the air by degrees, shutting up with 
sun heat at 85 degrees, Avhen at command. Thin 
the buds, bunches, and shoots, allowing about 
fifteen bunches to an established vine, when 
trained to a single light, but this must be re- 
gulated by the state of the plant, and the space 
it covers. The borders outside must be thickly 
covered with stable litter, and those inside 
watered with the liquid manure. Gently shake 
the bunches when in flower, and withhold water. 
Put in cuttings of single eyes, and plunge the 
pots in heat ; supply those in pots with liquid 
manure liberally. 
THE FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. 
Sow a succession of all hardy and half- 
hardy annuals, towards the end of the month. 
Plant and Transplant plants of every 
kind, if the weather is dry ; the sooner the 
better. 
General Directions. — Complete all altera- 
tions by the end of the month. It is quite 
proper, where expense is no object, to have the 
beds in the flower garden laid down in a new 
form almost every year. Where new lawn is 
being made, it is the readiest way, and the best, 
if turf can be got good, to turf it, instead of 
sowing. Roll and sweep the lawns and walks ; 
also turn the walks, if necessary. These 
should have a gentle rise in the centre, and at 
the sides should be filled up to within an inch 
or so of the level of the verge. Finish prun- 
ing and digging, and nearly the whole of the 
transplanting ; for although this may be done 
next month, it is well for many reasons to 
have it completed as early as possible. Keep 
the hoe going now in every part ; and as the 
season advances, let the whole garden increase 
in neatness and beauty. 
Layering. — All hard-wooded shrubs which 
are difficult to raise by cuttings, can be got by 
layers, thus : — bend down the branches to the 
earth, pin down with pegs, and, usually 
at a bud, say a few inches from the extremity 
of the shoots, make an incision, cutting up- 
wards half an inch ; many tough wooded 
plants do better twisted ; cover the cut, or 
twisted part with soil, and make the shoots 
stand a little erect : some kinds will be two 
seasons in rooting : use some sandy soil for 
rooting in. The present and next month are 
suitable for the operation. 
Transplanting Trees and Shrubs, may be 
done now, though this season is not so good as 
the autumn. Avoid making deep pits for the 
plants ; rather trench the spot, and, at least 
with all choice kinds, plant on or near the 
surface, providing soil to cover the roots ; 
those wdiich have bad roots especially must 
be supported. 
Alpines. — Keep these on a northern aspect ; 
a few might now be planted out upon the 
rock-work, or any suitable romantic spot. 
Anemones. — Loosen the soil about them ; 
the reserved tubers must be put in imme- 
diately. 
Annuals. — The hardy kinds forwarded in 
frames, should be potted in six-inch pots, 
four or five plants in each ; give them plenty 
of air, excepting when fresh potted, when they 
are kept close for a day or two ; use a soil of 
loam, leaf mould, and sand. The half-hardy 
ones, as rhodanthe, mesembryanthemum, schi- 
zanthus, &c, may be sown, giving them a little 
bottom heat, and plenty of light, when they 
vegetate. 
Aquilegias (Columbine). — Plant out single 
plants where they are to bloom, in a rich 
soil. 
Alyssum saxatile. — Those in pots and in 
the reserve garden should be planted out now 
where they are to flower. 
Auriculas. — Divide and plant out the 
border sorts ; re-surface the prize kinds with 
a rich compost of pigeons' and cow-dung well 
decomposed, adding a quantity of river sand ; 
give air by tilting behind ; protect from frost. 
Sox-edgings. — Finish the making and re- 
pairing of edgings, as early as possible ; it 
will do later, but hinders other work in the 
busy season. 
Bidbs. — All those planted early will be the 
better for being slightly protected in severe 
weather ; and those which are yet to plant, 
must be put in immediately. 
Carnations must be kept well aired and 
free from damp, than which nothing is more 
injurious : turn and clean the soil, which is 
laid up for their final shifting, and expose it 
to the frosts. 
Campamdas (Canterbury bells, &c.) — Plant 
in the situations where they are to bloom, if 
not already done ; place them singly, not in 
masses ; a soil of loam and rotten dung suits 
them. 
Clematis and Deciduous Climbers. — Prune, 
