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plant, plants, prune, sow, trees and transplant

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In the Fruit-garden. Gather your late pears and apples; prune and nail your wall-trees, also your standards, when the leaf has fallen ; plant goosberries and currants, also prune them, and set the cuttings ; dress strawberry beds, plant the runners ; prune raspberries, and plant the young shoots ; propagate fruit trees by layers and by suckers.

In the Flower-garden. Put your auricu lar plants in safe places, laying them on their sides to throw off the wet ; set out your carnation layers ; dress your flow ering shrubs ; transplant fibrous-rooted flowering plantg, parting the roots of such as will admit ; plant all kinds of bulb ; prune flowering shrubs ; plant hardy deci duous flowers and shrubs and evergreens to hide walls; firs and pinesshould now be transplanted, as also forest trees in gene ral ; propagate them by layers; transplant such layers as may be ready ; propagate roses, &c. by suckers, and others by cut tings; set your seedlings in a warm place ; trim your evergreens ; plant box ; and cut hedges and edgings In the Nursery. Propagate by layers, and transplant such as may be ready ; proceed also with cuttings ; sow haw and holly berries; sow acorns ; set out seed ling stocks for grafting ; sow plum and cherry stones ; transplant laurels ; sow beech, and various seeds of hardy trees.

In the Green-house. See that your shutters fit well, and have all your bench es, &c. well cleansed and repaired; move in your plants in due time, if not done be fore; water occasionally, but in small quantity.

In the list-house. See that your tan pits are in proper state, and set your pots in carefully.

NOVEMBER.November.

Kitchen Garden. Sow beans, peas, ra dishes, small salading, &c. ; look to your celery and endive, so that they may blanch well; attend also to your car doons ; cut down your artichokes; give air to your cauliflower plants ; clean your spinach ; manure and trench ; you may sow a little carrot seed, but it will prove a precarious crop ; weed your spring onions carefully.

In the Prune and nail vines, apricots, &c. ; plant wall-trees, apples, pears, cherries, &c. ; clear your fig-trees of the remaining fruit, and if severe frosts come on, cover them with mats; plant filberts, and in general all deciduous fruit trees and shrubs.

In the Flower-garden. Clean your bor ders, plant perennials, tulips, ranuncu luses, anemones, crocuses, narcissuses, and other bulbs ; prune flowering shrubs ; transplant hardy shrubs; plant forest trees ; roll grass walks and lawns, and keep your gravel clean ; prepare good compost for your flowers.

In the Nursery. Finish all transplant ing ; prepare for new plantations ; manure well ; and shelter seedlings from wet and from frost.

In the Green-house. Some few plants will want watering, and it will be proper to keep the night air entirely out.

In the Make a moderate fire at night ; on sunny days you must open a sash or two, and should occasionally be stow a little water where wanted.

DECEMBER.December.

Kitchen-Garden. Examine your cauli flower plants ; you may sow beans, peas, &c. if the weather is open ; keep your mushroom beds dry ; make a forcing bed for early asparagus ; trench and open the vacant soil, giving a good allowance of manure where wanted.

In the Fruit-Garden. See that your wall-trees are firm, and cover places that seem likely to canker, cutting away all useless wood, but preserving suffi cient bearing wood; prune fruit trees in general, and plant out if the weather admits.

In the Flower-garden. Preserve all ten der plants and seedlings very carefully ; transplant and plant as wanted.

In the Nursery. Look to your new plan tations; trench, dig, and manure libe rally ; propagate by layers and suckers of hardy trees and shrubs.

In the Green-house. Keep your plants clean, and water occasionally.

In the Hot-house. Water as wanted ; keep up a due temperature : you may commence for early cucumbers, kidney beans, roses, pinks, &c.

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