==Horse-radish== to be taken up and stored ready for use, and new plantations made as weather permits and ground can be spared.

==Pea.==—­The sowing of Peas outdoors now is not recommended for general practice, but only for those who are so favourably circumstanced as to have a fair prospect of success.  If it is determined to sow, select for the purpose a dry, light, well-drained sunny border, and make it safe from mice, slugs, and sparrows.  The quick-growing round-seeded varieties must be chosen for the purpose, and it will be advisable to sow two or three sorts rather than one only.  Peas to be grown entirely under glass may be started now.

==Sea Kale== to be lifted for forcing.  This delicious vegetable may, indeed, be forced for the table in this month; but it is not advisable to be in such haste, for a fine sample cannot be secured so early.  Sea Kale is the easiest thing in the world to force; the only point of importance is to have strong roots to begin with.  Any place such as Mushroom-houses, cellars, pits, or old sheds, where it is possible to maintain a temperature of 45 deg. to 55 deg., may be utilised for the purpose.  Put the plants thickly into pots or boxes, or plant them in a bed, and it is essential to exclude light to insure blanching.  By these simple means a regular supply may be obtained until the permanent beds in the open ground come into use.

==December==

The best advice that can be given for this month is to be prepared for either heavy rain or sharp frost, so that extreme variations of temperature may inflict the least possible injury in the garden.  Let the work be ordered with reference to the weather, that there may be no ‘poaching’ on wet ground, or absurd conflict with frost.  Accept every opportunity of wheeling out manure; and as long as the ground can be dug without waste of labour, proceed to open trenches, make drains, and mend walks, because this is the period for improving, and the place must be very perfect which affords no work for winter weather.  Dispose of all rubbish by the simple process of putting it in trenches when digging plots for early seeds.  In sheds and outhouses many tasks may be found, such as making large substantial tallies for the garden; the little paltry things commonly used being simply delusive, for they are generally missing when wanted, from their liability to be trodden into the ground or kicked anywhere by a heedless foot.  Make ready pea-sticks, stakes of sizes, and at odd times gather up all the dry stuff that is adapted for a grand ‘smother.’  A careful forecasting of the next year’s cropping will show that even now many arrangements may be made to increase the chances of success.

==Warm Border== to be prepared for early work by digging and manuring.  All the refuse turf and leaf-mould from the potting-shed and the soil knocked out of pots may be usefully disposed of by adding it to this border, which cannot be too light or too rich, and a good dressing of manure will give it strength to perform its duties.