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spreading a sufficiency of it over the beds, between and round the beds, cn* 
king care not to bury their tops. A slight top dressing of compost, such as 
described p. 286, may now be applied. It may now be time to gather and 
preserve apples and pears, though it is best to let them remain on tne 
trees as long as they are safe from frost. If you are not apprehensive of 
the depredations of mice, rats, squirrels, &c. you may sow the stones of plums, 
peaches, nectarines, apricots, &c.; or you may, if you think it more prudent, 
preserve them in sand till March or April. 
NOVEMBER. 
Gather from your garden, before the hard frosts commence, all those fruits 
of your labors, which you wish to preserve through the winter, not forgetting 
winter squashes. Take up and preserve cabbages, as directed p. 35. Pre 
' serve your celery, 44. • You may gather a part in dry weather, and pack it 
in boxes in dry sand, and place the boxes in a warm cellar, leaving the tops 
and leaves open to the air. Those cabbage and cauliflower plants, which 
you mean shall stand through the winter in frames, should, during the con¬ 
tinuance of mild weather, be allowed every advantage of free air, to inure 
them, by degrees, to bear cold. Take the glasses off entirely, in the warm 
part of the day, but place them again at night, and in wet or cold weather. 
If your beets, turnips, parsneps, &c. are not* secured, take them up, and pre¬ 
serve them, as directed last month. You may now T sow the seeds of rhubarb, 
sea-kale, skirrets, parsneps, and many other kinds, which are somewhat slow 
in vegetating, and they will come forward early, and grow vigorously in the 
spring. In the beginning of this month, you may manure and trench the 
ground which is intended for early crops, and, if it be of a stiff, heavy nature, 
lay it. up in ridges, to receive the benefit of the winter frosts You may now 
sow early peas, to come up in the spring, if you can preserve them against 
mice, 84. This is, perhaps, as eligible a period as any for the planting ol 
apple-trees, and other fruit-trees, or sow T ing seeds in a nursery. Lay light 
litter of some kind a good thickness over the roots of the more tender and 
choice kinds of trees and shrubs, to protect them from frost. 
DECEMBER. 
The severity of the weather in this month generally allows but little to be 
done in the Middle and Northern States. Should the season permit, you may 
perform any of the operations directed for last month, which remain unfin 
ished. If the weather continues open, carry out and spread manure, and 
trench the ground, as directed for the last month. Provide from the woods, 
&c. pea-sticks and bean-poles, of suitable lengths and sizes, as directed in 
January. Collect all your old sticks and poles, vchich are still fit for use, 
and place them together with your new ones under cover, to prevent their 
rotting. Be careful to shut the frost out of the apartments in which you have 
stored your fruit for winter and spring use. Examine the fruit which you 
have on shelves in cellars, once every ten days, and take away any that you 
find tainted. Repair all decayed trellises, espaliers, &c. Procure stakes arid 
othei materials which may be wanted in a more busy season. 
