_Kitchen Garden._--Sow small salading and radishes in the first week,
and lettuces in frames on a shallow hotbed for planting out in spring.
If the winter prove mild they will be somewhat earlier than those sown
next month or in January. Plant parsley in pots or boxes to protect
under glass in case very severe weather occurs. Plant cabbages in beds
or close rows till wanted in spring; and cauliflowers in the last
week, to receive the protection of frames, or a sheltered situation.
Store potatoes, beet, salsafy, scorzonera, skirret, carrots and
parsnips, by the end of the month. Band and earth up cardoons.
_Fruit Garden._--Such fruit trees as have dropped their leaves may be
transplanted; this is the best season for transplanting (though with
care it may be done earlier), whether the leaves have fallen or not.
Protect fig-trees, if the weather proves frosty, as soon as they have
cast their leaves. Plant out raspberries. The orchard-house trees
should be got under glass before the end of the month. Gather and
store all sorts of apples and pears, the longest-keeping sorts not
before the end of the month, if the weather be mild.
_Forcing._--Maintain the heat in hotbeds and pits by means of fresh
dung linings. Give abundance of air in mild bright weather. Dress
vines and peaches. Clean and repair the forcing-houses, and overhaul
the heating apparatus to see it is in good working condition. Plant
chicory in boxes or on hotbeds for blanching. Sow kidney beans. Make
up successional winter mushroom beds.
_Plant Houses._--Replace all sorts of greenhouse plants. Fill the pits
with pots of stocks, mignonette and hardy annuals for planting out in
spring, along with many of the hardy sorts of greenhouse plants; the
whole ought to be thoroughly ventilated, except in frosty weather.
From this time till spring keep succulent plants almost without water.
Begin to force roses, hyacinths and a few other bulbs, for winter and
early spring decoration. Plant hyacinths in glasses for windows. The
last of the pot chrysanthemums should be housed by the end of the
first week.
_Flower Garden._--Sow a few pots of hardy annuals in a frame, or on a
sheltered border, for successional spring use if required. Plant the
greater part of the common border bulbs, as hyacinths, narcissi,
crocuses and early tulips, about the end of the month, with a few
anemones for early flowering. Transplant strong plants of biennials
and perennials to their final situations; also the select plants used
for spring bedding. Protect alpine plants, stage auriculas, and choice
carnations and picotees with glass frames; and tea roses and other
tender plants with bracken or other protective material. Take up, dry
and store dahlias and all tender tubers at the end of the month; pot
lobelias and similar half-hardy plants from the open borders.
Transplant all sorts of hardy evergreens and shrubs, especially in dry
soils, giving abundance of water. Put in cuttings of all sorts of
evergreens, &c. Plant out the hardier sorts of roses.