KALENDAR OF WORK TO BE DONE IN 
THE GARDEN. 
January . 
HIS is not a very good month for gardening. 
' v * The ground is often frozen so hard that we 
cannot dig it, and when it thaws we find that it is 
wet like clay. 
Rather a cold time too for loitering about ; if 
there is any work done it ought to be something 
active. 
If our garden is already laid out nicely we 
really cannot do much to it. The frost, however, 
gives us an opportunity of walking about the beds 
without doing damage, and if we have anything 
to do in the way of gravelling, or any tree-stumps 
to arrange, or any old trees to cut down, now is 
the time that we had better do it. 
It is what a friend of mine would call such jolly 
good fun to grub up some odd old root and get 
