1022. January. - Flower of the month - Christmas Rose.

1023. Gardening. - Indoor preparations for future operations must be made, as in this month there are only five hours a-day available for out-door work, unless the season be unusually mild. Mat over tulip-beds, begin to force roses. Pot over secale and plant dried roots of border flowers in mild weather. Take strawberries in pots into the green-house. Prune and plant gooseberry, currant, fruit, and deciduous trees and shrubs. Cucumbers and melons to be sown in the hot bed. Ap ply manures.

1024. February. - Flowers of elu month - Camelia Japonica.

1025. Gardening. - Transplant pinks, carnations, sweet-williams, candituft, campanulas, etc, sweet and garden peas and lettuce, for succession of crops, covering the ground with straw, etc. Sow also savoys, leeks and cabbages. Prune and nail walnut trees, and inwards the end of the month plant stocks for next year's grafting, als cuttings of poplar, elder, and willow-trees, for ornamental shrubbery. Sow fruit and forest tree seeds.

1026. March. - Flower of the month - Violet.

1028. April- Flower of the month. - Cowslip.

1029. Gardening Operations. - Sow for succession peas, beans and carrots; parsnips, celery and secale. Sow "Spring flowers." Plant evergreens, dahlias, chrysanthemums, and the like; also potatoes, slips of thyme, parted roots, lettuces, cauliflowers, cabbages, onions. Lay down turf, remove caterpillars. Sow and graft Camelias, and propagate and graft fruit and rose trees by all the various means in use. Sow cucumbers and vegetable morrows for planting out. This is the most im-portant month in the year for gardeners.

1030. May. - Flower of the montn -Hawthorn.

1031. Gardening. - Plant out your seedling flowers as they are ready, and bow again for succession larkspur, mignionette, and other spring flowers. Pot out tender annuals. Remove suricilas to a N.E. aspect. Take up bulbous roots as the leaves decay. Sow kidney beans to spring use, cape for autumn, cauliflowers for December; corn, cress; onions, to plant out as bulbs next year, radishes, aromatic herbs, turnips, cabbages, savoys, lettuces, etc. Plant celery, lettuces, and annuals; thin spring crops. Stick peas, etc. Earth up potatoes, etc. Moisten mushroom beds.

1032. June. Flowers of the month.-Waterlily, Honeysuckle.

1033 Gardening Operations. - Sow giant stocks to flower next spring. Slip myrtles to strike, and lay pinks, carnations, roses, and evergreens. Plant annuals in borders, and auriculas in shady places. Sow kidney beans, pumpkins, cucumbers for pickling, and, (late in the month,) endive and lettuces. Plant out cucumbers, marrows, leeks. celery, cauliflowers, savoys, and seedlings, and plants propagated by slips. Earth up potatoes, etc. Cut herbs for drying when in flower.

1034. July. - Flowers of the month -Rose and Carnation.

1035. Gardening Operations. - Part auricula and polyanthus roots. Take up summer bulbs as they go out of flower, and plant saffron crocus and autumn bulbs. Gather seeds. Clip evergreen borders and hedges, strike myrtle slips under glasses. Net fruit trees. Finish budding by the end of the month. Head down espaliers. Sow early dwarf cabbages to plant out in October for spring; also onions, kidney beans for late crop, and turnips. Plant celery, lettuces, cabbages, leeks, strawberries, and cauliflowers. Stick peas. Tie up salads. Earth celery. Take up onions, etc, for drying.