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MONTHLY CALENDAR 
3. Many of the half-hardy class, as also those designated 
hardy in our table, may be cultivated throughout the winter 
months, by forwarding such as are required for early spring 
use, after the summer crops are taken off. [See table, expli- 
cation, &c., page 26 to 29 ; also page 115. 
In the Eastern, Western, and Middle States, the annexed 
Calendar will answer in the order it stands, by applying the 
directions to the beginning of the first spring month in the 
warmest climates, and to the latter end in the coldest cli- 
mates, bearing in mind that where summer is short, the main 
crops must follow the early in quick succession, with a view 
to their maturity before winter. 
JANUARY. 
“ Prognostics foretoken most truly some things, 
Of summers, and autumns, and winters, and springs j 
By them from the past we may all ascertain 
The future , respecting the winds and the rain.” 
It is customary, at this season of the year, with all prudent 
men, to look around them, and endeavour to ascertain the 
results of their industry throughout the past year, in order to 
make improved arrangements for the future. The mere 
gardener, having no complicated accounts to adjust, may 
occupy his time to valuable purposes. If he be not a book- 
reader, he should be a book-keeper, (see page 14,) and he 
should frequently take a survey of his former practises and 
those of his acquaintances, with a view to improve on every 
thing he has done, or seen done. If he consults writers on 
Horticulture, he should do as the author has endeavoured to 
do in preparing this little work for the press ; not adopt the 
mere theory of a subject, nor indulge in speculative ideas, 
nor even tread in the steps of others, but endeavour to erect 
his edifice of knowledge upon a good settled foundation. In 
all his pursuits, whether he attempts to follow the example 
