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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
December 25. i 
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the house. Bulbs arid hardy Siirubs, such as lilacs, azaleas, and roses, 
introduce from the forcing-house, placing them at the closest and warmest 
end of the house; calceolarias, cinerarias, geraniums, and Chinese prim¬ 
roses, clean, shift, and supply at times with manure-water. Camellias 
andCvrisusES opening their buds, supply with manure-water. Climbers, 
prune in, if not already done, those that produce their flowers on the 
young wood; others, such as Kennedyas, now flowering and growing, 
attend to; and especially train, every day, the Tropceolums, if you wish 
to prevent confusion. Fires, light in close, dull weather, to enable you 
to give a circulation of air. Beware of heating too much when frosty, 
as, without due precaution, the atmosphere will be too dry; it is better 
to use coverings for the glass. Fuchsias : the forwardest may now be 
pruned and repotted. Geraniums and Cinerarias will, in all likeli¬ 
hood, want cleaning and fumigating. The first may now be repotted for 
late Slay and early June blooming, and the latter must be shifted and 
kept growing, so as to prevent them throwing up flower-stalks, if late 
bloom and large specimens are desired. Where room is limited, a fine 
display is obtained by successions, and using not larger than six-inch 
pots. Roses in pots, for April and May and June blooming, in the 
greenhouse, finish pruning; wash with a paint of soot, sulphur, and 
clay; top-dress with rich compost; and plunge, if possible, in a house 
or pit—sawdust will be a good material—and give at first a temperature 
of 40° to 45° at night, and from 45° to 55° during the day. Succulents, 
unless growing and showing flower, refrain from watering. Water 
plants only when requisite, and perform the operation after breakfast, 
using water rather higher than the medium temperature of the house. 
Place a few achimenes, gesnera, and gloxinia roots into heat for early 
blooming. In a conservatory or greenhouse, where no hard-wooded 
plants to speak of are grown, and where a medium heat of 50° can be 
maintained—that is, 45° at night, and 55° during the day— Poinsettia 
pulcherrima, Euphorbia prunifolia, &c., may be introduced from the 
stove. (See Calendar of last month.) K. Fish. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Artichokes, attend to, shelter, &c. Asparagus, plant in hotbed ; 
attend to that forcing ; temperature about 65°, and at night 50°. Beans, 
plant, b. ; earth-stir among often ; advancing crops protect from frost ; 
plant in hotbed, if required. Beet (red) plant for seed. Brocoli, protect 
from frost. Cabbages plant, e.; sow, e. ; plant for seed. Cardoons, 
attend to, shelter, &c. Carrots, sow small crop ; plant for seed ; (early 
Horn) sow on gentle hotbeds, fill the frame up well with earth, so as to 
bring the crop up close to the glass; attend to early thinning out and 
earth-stirring with a little pointed stick among all frame crops. Cauli¬ 
flowers in frames, attend to protection from frost, and give all open 
air possible in open weather, by taking the lights entirely off ; also hand¬ 
glass crops, clear away all decayed leaves and slugs, and earth-stir often ; 
if young plants are required, a pinch of seed may be sown in pans, and 
placed in any heated structure, but have a gentle hotbed made up ready 
1 to prick them out upon, keeping the young crop up close to the glass, 
j Celery, earth up, shelter, &c. Composts, prepare and turn over. Cu- 
I cumbers, sow and prick out; temperature, by day 70° to 75°, and at 
: night 65°. Dung, for hotbeds, prepare in earnest; wheel on to vacant 
1 ground. Earth for hotbeds, prepare. Eartii-stir, and fasten plants 
disturbed by frost, &c. Endive, blanch, protect. Frost, protect 
plants from, by temporary covering. Ground, trench vacant. Horse¬ 
radish, plant at any time during the month in open weather. Hotbeds, 
make and attend to. Jerusalem Artichokes, take up and replant in 
open weather, at any time during the month. Kidney-beans, sow in 
succession in hotbed, &c. Kale (Sea), attend to; force in succession. 
Lettuces, in frames, attend ; protect from frost ; sow on warm border, 
e. Liquorice, plant, e., and dig up three-year-old. Melons, sow, for 
j fruiting in May; day temperature 75°, night 65°. Mint, force, in hot¬ 
bed. Mushroom Beds, make, and attend to those producing; procure 
horse-droppings for. Mustard and Cress, sow in hotbed. Onions, 
clear from weeds ; examine stored ; sow a small crop, e.; plant for seed. 
Parsley, sow, e.; protect from frost. Parsnips, plant for seed. 
Peas, protect from birds by straining a single string of worsted along 
; over the row; attend to the early pea sowing as near the first of 
the month as possible. It is a good maxim to always have a 
mouse trap or two set about the pea quarters. Sow; earth-stir; 
shelter from frost; and prepare sticks. This is a good season for 1 
making main sowings of euriy and second early peas where the soil 
works well and the weather is open. Potatoes, plant in slight hot¬ 
bed ; and they may also be planted out in the open border, or quarters, in 
fine open weather, where the soil works well. Examine those in the store. 
| Radishes, sow, in hotbed; thin out as soon as the plants can be handled, 
i and sift a little dry earth among them; sow in border, e. Rape (for 
salading), sow in (hotbed ; (edible-rooted,) sow. Rhubarb, attend to; ! 
: force, either in pots, to be planted in some heated structure, or covered 
up with pots or tubs and fermenting materials. Salading (Small), sow. j 
I Savoys, plant for seed. Spinach, keep clear from weeds, and fallen : 
| leaves ; make a small sowing toward the end of the month. Tansy, plant 
j in hotbed. Tarragon, plant in hotbed. Turnips, plant for seed ; should 
1 the weather seem inclined to set in severe, store in a good supply, or heap 1 
them and cover them over with coal-ashes. Weeds, continually destroy, 
and do any work which will lessen that of the following busier months ; in 
particular, such as planting all the main out-door crops of potatoes, 
wherever the soil will allow of it, and the weather is favourable. Wood- I 
lice, destroy in the mushroom-house by trapping under dry hay, and 
scalding it in hot water ; or by baiting small pots with boiled potatoes, I 
or slices of potatoes under dry moss, T. Weaver. 
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