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CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER. 
and only a sufficiency of that to keep them from retrograding, 
as, if they once become luxuriant, they seldom give much satis¬ 
faction. 
The flower garden should be kept very clean and free from 
fallen leaves or other litter, cutting down all plants as they go 
out of flower, and mulching the roots of the more tender sorts 
with fern, or any other light material, preferring such as have 
little manuring qualities in them. Partially prune and nail or 
tie up tender roses and other climbers, so as to protect them 
from high winds, and also so as to reduce them to as small a 
compass as possible in case they want further protection from 
frost. Re-arrange the herbaceous plants, if necessary, reducing 
them to proper sizes, and finish the planting of hardy bulbs as 
soon as possible. All digging, transplanting trees and shrubs, or 
new ground work, should also be forwarded as much as the 
weather will allow. 
Have the heating apparatus in all the plant-houses in proper 
condition to be immediately used in case of sudden frost, or in 
case of continued wet weather, when a fire should be occasionally 
applied to the greenhouse and conservatory in the daytime, so as 
to dry the house, giving all the air possible while the fire is used. 
Attend very particularly to the watering, using no more than 
just sufficient to maintain the plants in good health. , The tem¬ 
perature may sink as low as 40° at night. 
The temperature in the stove may fall as low as 60° at night, 
but too great a range of heat should be avoided as much as pos¬ 
sible at present, for fear of exciting many of the plants too soon. 
On the same account, the supply of water should be as limited as 
possible, so that the plants may be the better enabled to with¬ 
stand the artificial heat they will have to endure when hard 
weather occurs. As a good deal of time must unavoidably be 
spent in doors at this season, the stove plants should in particular 
be well cleaned from scale, white bug, and all similar attacks; 
and they should also be well staked and formed into neat plants. 
Their tallies should also be replaced where necessary. Attention 
to these little points now will be well repaid in the busy season. 
D. M. 
