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THE GARDEN GUIDE EOE SEPTEMBER. 



Kitchen Garden. — Fetch up all arrears 

 while the ground is warm and moist, and 

 especially see that winter greens are fairly- 

 dealt with. Many of the small plants left 

 in seed-beds will now pay for good places, 

 and the clearing away of peas, potatoes, 

 etc., will make room for them. Good 

 stumps of summer cahbage should be 

 planted close together to furnish sprouts. 

 Earth up celery. Prick out cauliflowers 

 into patches four inches apart, to be covered 

 with hand-lights. Take up potatoes, car- 

 rots, and beet-root as wanted. Parsnips 

 may be taken up and stored, if the plot is 

 wanted for winter greens. Draw onions, 

 and lay in the sun to harden. 



Soto lettuce — the hardy green is best 

 now ; soav also corn-salad for winter use. 



Fruit Garden. — In gathering fruit, 

 put the damaged aside for immediate use, 

 and store only those that are without 

 bruises or damage of vermin. Protect the 

 fruit with nets. Get the wood of vines 

 ripened. 



Flower Garden. — All border plants 

 of questionable hardiness, or that are of 

 high value, should be taken up and potted, 

 to keep over winter in frames. Pot off 

 rooted layers of carnations and picotees, 

 and rooted offsets of auriculas. Propagate 

 bedding-plants, and get struck cuttings 

 into small pots. Calceolarias should be 

 struck in shallow pans, to be kept in the 

 pans till early spring. House tender 

 plants, and give plenty of air. Sow hardy 

 annuals on firm ground, to stand the 



winter, for early bloom nest season. 

 Gather seeds of all kinds as soon as ripe. 

 Plant hyacinths, tulips, narcissi, crocuses, 

 snowdrops, and daffodils, as soon as the 

 bulbs are obtained. Look over roses lately 

 budded, and loosen the ties. Buds may 

 still be entered on stocks that were not fit 

 in July. 



Greenhouse and Stove. — Whatever 

 painting or repairing is required should be 

 attended to forthwith, and the smell of 

 paint got rid of before any plants are 

 housed. Pelargoniums that have broken 

 freely should be repotted in as small pots 

 as their roots, after trimming, can be got 

 into. Young stock should be well hard • 

 ened as soon as possible. Keep cinerarias 

 and primulas growing freely, and make a 

 last sowing of the latter. Sow now, for 

 decorating the house early in the spring, 

 Clarkia, nemophila, erysimum, Oenothera, 

 collinsia, veronica syriaca, mignonette. 

 Give plenty of air to stove plants, and 

 get a good stock of young pines for- 

 ward. Vines that have ripened their fruit 

 should be well cleaned. Hard-wooded 

 plants require to be well ripened before 

 housing. Give plenty of light and air 

 to cinerarias and primulas. Pines want 

 a humid atmosphere, full sunlight, and 

 plenty of manure-water. Shade grapes 

 intended to hang any length of time. 

 Vines disposed to break, encourage with a 

 temperature of 55° to 60' ; for pines in 

 growth, 84*. 



A CULTURAL LIST OE EIFTY BRITISH EERNS. 



Adiantum Capillus- veneris (Common 

 Maiden-hair).— f to ^ ft. high. Will not 

 bear exposure, but flourishes in a damp con- 

 fined atmosphere ; loves shade. 



Allosorus crispus (Mountain pars- 

 ley fern). — \ to J ft. Free-growing and 

 elegant ; stone-loving ; hence does well 

 for artificial rockwork ; must be well 

 drained, and in watering take care not to 

 break the fronds. 



Asplenium Adiantum nigrum. — h to 1 ft. 

 Ornamental both for pot-culture and rock- 

 work. In the latter its neat habit and 

 glossy fronds are desirable. 



A. A. variegatum. — ^ to f ft. Very 

 inconstant. Will grow either in exposed 

 or shady situations, but prefers the latter. 



A. A. oxyphyllum. — k to f ft. Can be 



readily propagated by separating the 

 crowns. 



A. fontanum. — £ to ^ft. Should be 

 potted in very porous soil, and is best ele- 

 vated a little above the soil by a few 

 pieces of soft sandstone. 



A. marinum, — 1 ft. Easily culti- 

 vated in a frame or greenhouse, but does 

 not succeed if exposed ; is constitutionally 

 tender. 



A. m. trapeziforme. — 1 ft. May be in- 

 creased by division ; soil, light turfy 

 peat, with liberal quantity of silver- 

 sand. 



A. ruta muraria (Wall rue). — £ to £ft. 

 Grows best in fragments of old brick and 

 mortar ; requires less moisture than these 

 generally like. 



