HORTICULTURAL CALENDAR. 
539 
Fig Trees. —On the open walls will require protection with mats, 
and the ground about their roots should have some litter laid upon it. 
Those in pots or tubs, now introduced into the forcing house, will 
produce fruit in March. Prune the trees planted in the fig-houses 
previously to commencing forcing in January or February. 
Gooseberry and Currant Trees. —Should now be pruned. Cut 
away ah shoots from gooseberry trees, except one or two springing 
as near as can he obtained from the origin of each main branch. 
Shorten the young shoot left at the top of each branch to about ten 
or twelve buds, and leave, throughout the tree, the fruit-bearing 
branches about six inches apart. In pruning the currant, keep a 
good supply of young shoots springing from the bottom of the tree, 
and cut out more or less of the old every year, never allowing a branch 
to remain more than four or five years, and head in the young shoots 
at the top to about two eyes of the main branch from whence they 
spring. 
Grapes.— Vines in pots brought now into the vinery, will ripen 
their fruit in April. Those on the rafters should be fully exposed to 
the weather, previously to their being forced again. 
Peach and Nectarine Trees , trained against the walls should 
have the nails and shreds drawn from the small branches, leaving 
only so many as will prevent the branches breaking or rubbing against 
each other in windy weather. The earliest peach-houses may be 
closed about the middle or end of the month, but the heat must be 
very moderate, not exceeding fifty-five degrees by day, and some¬ 
thing less by night. 
Raspberries in pots for forcing, in severe frosts, should have their 
pots covered with littery dung. If introduced at the end of the 
month, (sooner is not advisable,) they will produce ripe fruit in the 
beginning of April. Prune those in the open quarters, cut away all 
the shoots that bore fruit last summer, in the manner recommended 
p. 395. 
Strawberries in Pots should now be regularly introduced into the 
forcing house or frame, as recommended last month. 
FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 
Auriculas and Polyanthuses must be well secured from frost, and 
have plenty of air in fine weather. 
Camellias in Frames may be introduced into warmer situations to 
bring into flower. If the heat in which they are placed far exceeds 
fifty degrees Fahr, the flower buds are liable to fall off without ex¬ 
panding. 
