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NOTES FOE SEPTEMBER. 



KITCHEN GARDEN, 



Continue to plant winter greens from 

 the seed beds. Thin winter spinach to 

 three inches apart, to bs thinned again to 

 six inches. Prick out cauliflovTers into 

 patclies, to be covered with hand-lights, 

 four inches apart. Take up potatoes as 

 the haulm decajs ; take up carrots and 

 beetroot as wanted, the main crops may 

 remain in the ground till next mouth. 

 Parsnips may be taken up and stored 

 if the plot is wanted for winter gi'eens. 

 Onions that are thick in the neck should 

 be broken over close to the ground, and 

 left to ripen. Sow winter spinach and 

 Saladings, and the last succession of hardy 

 lettuce. 



TEUIT GAEDEN, 



Grather all fruit suiFicieutly ripe for 

 storing. Store only those that are without 

 bruises, or damage of vermin. Gather in 

 dry weather, and during sunshine. Most 

 liardy fruits will be ripe a fortnight earlier 

 than usual this year. 



PIOWEB GAEBEN. 



Border plants of questionable hardi- 

 ness should be taken up and potted, to 

 keep over winter in frames, where they are 

 more safe from damp. Pot rooted layers 

 of carnations and pieotees, and rooted 

 offsets of auiiculr.s, to ^et them strong 

 before winter. Propagate bedding jjlants, 

 and to get struck cuttings into small pots. 

 Calceolarias should be struck in shallow 

 pans, in a compost of leaf-motdd, peat, 



and sand, to be kept in the pans till early 

 spring. Get tender plants under glass, 

 but give plenty of air. Plant the first 

 lot of hyacinths, tulips, and daffodils, as 

 soon as the bulbs are obtained. Sow hardy 

 annuals on firm ground, to stand the win- 

 ter, for early bloom next season. 



OllEElNnoirSE AND STOTE. 



Get hard-wooded plants, %\ell ripened 

 before housing ; if heavy rains set in, cover 

 with a spare lisrht. Cinerarias and pri- 

 mulas for early blooming mu«t be got into 

 the house ; give plenty of light and air. 

 Pines must be kept growing vigorously 

 in a humid atmosphere, with plenty of 

 manure-water. Remove the shading from 

 them. Shade grapes intended to hang 

 any length of time. Tines iruited early 

 will shortly start of their own accord, 

 encourage them with a temperature of 

 about 55' to 60' bottom heat ; for pines 

 in growth, 84'. 



PITS AND EEAME^. 



These should be cleaned out for the 

 destruction of vermin, and renewal of the 

 material used for plunging. Give a coat 

 ot paint where necessary, and mend broken 

 glass, and see at once to the store of mats 

 and otjier protecting materials. Where 

 cucumbers are giown for winter supply, 

 be careiul now to promote the growth of 

 an ample and healthy foliage. Cucumbers 

 may be struck from cuttings to provide 

 plants for succession. 



TO COEEESPONDENTS. 



GfiAPES Deficiekt in Colour.— J". A. C. — Har- 1 

 lefton. — The sample (jerries sent are much better i 

 than your description of them. They are qnite | 

 healthy, of tolerable flavour, deficient in colour, | 

 and perhaps under average size. Under the 

 microscope they show not the s!ij;htest trace of 

 fungi ; but at the very first inspection of them 

 we said, " Border too dry, not enough syringe ;" 

 and believe that therein v. e have said all that is 

 necessary us a guide fur your practice next year. 

 Tour practice, asdeseiibed under the several 

 heads in your nute, is wrong in three particu- 

 lars. Heat increased from .5-5' to 70=' as soon as 

 the buds burst was too sudden a rise. You had 

 better wait a little fcr ciicumbers than run .such 

 a risk again. The ventilation should be im- 

 proved if possible by the admission ol air at the 

 back wall, it the structure of tlic house admits 

 of it; on this point you might, perhijps, get a 

 practical bint trom some of Mr. Howlett's 

 sketches, which have appeared iu former iiura- 



bera. Keeping the heat up to TO"" at night when 

 the June sunshine made 95' by day was good 

 pnictice. Be more particular about the thinning 

 next year, and thin with courage, but touch the 

 berries as httle as X50?sible with the hands. Use 

 the syringe more freely night and morning; 

 if afraid of scorching, shade. Lastly, let every 

 bunch have the shade nature intended ibr it ; 

 that is, one thickness of leaf, and your berries 

 will colour more efiectually. i-.very bunch of 

 grajies, no matter of what sort, shoiildbe shaded 

 from the sun by one thickness of healthy leaf; 

 the full glare of light is by no means essential to 

 the production of a full tone of colour, else how 

 should the sprinji-shoots otmany plants acquire 

 a deep purple coloui- before they emerge from 

 beneath the surface of the ground ? 

 Candles roit Waltonian CasiiS. — P. It. S.— 

 The candles have been adiipted to burn eight 

 and twelve hours respectively, and are found to 

 answer admirably. Mr. "^Vilson thinks he shall 



