390 CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS, [chap, xii. 
The best way of managing these is to choose 
a portion of hard ground on which a little 
light earth, six or eight inches deep, has 
been laid; in this the seeds should be sown, 
and the young plants will be ready to remove 
by spadefuls to the beds prepared for them 
in spring. 
This is the best season for planting hya¬ 
cinths, tulips, crocuses, and other bulbs and 
corms, and the different varieties of Anemone 
hortensis; taking care when planting the 
latter to keep the eye of the tuber uppermost. 
All the kinds of Pmonies, as well the Prnonia 
Moutan as the herbaceous species, should.be 
planted in this month. The leaves that fall 
in great abundance in October and Novem¬ 
ber should be regularly swept up, and carried 
to a rotting heap, that they may decay, and 
make the earth so valuable to florists, which 
is generally called vegetable mould. 
In the kitchen-garden the remaining fruit 
should be gathered. Towards the end of the 
month some fruit-trees may be planted if 
their leaves have dropped; and the autumnal 
pruning may begin, unless the trees should 
be still in a growing state. 
