21G THE FLORIST AND TOMOLOGIST. [ Sr. tember, 



Peaches and Nectarine!^ : The early houses should now be in a state of perfect 

 rest ; take off the lights, that the trees may have full exposure to the weather. 

 Pay every necessary attention to the ripening of the wood in the late houses. 

 Keep inside borders well watered, otherwise the buds will not fill up properly. 

 Figs : Water must now be given sparingly to trees in borders, but trees in pots 

 and txibs must never be allowed to get too dry ; when the fruit is all gathered, 

 syringe the trees well and give abundance of air both day and night. Melons : 

 Maintain a good heat, but guard against too moist an atmosphere, or the flavour 

 will be poor ; water carefully when required, and give some air at every favour- 

 able opportunity. 



OuT-DooBS. — Go over Peach and Nectarine trees and stop or nail in any shoots 

 that may require it, and remove any leaves that shade the fruit ; attend to gather- 

 ing the fruit as it ripens. Look over Ajvicots, Peai^s, Cherries^ Apples^ and 

 Plums^ and pinch off all superfluous shoots ; gather as the fruit arrives at maturity. 

 The greatest care and attention is required in gathering fruit for keeping. Go 

 daily over the trees, and gather only as they ripen. All fruit should be laid 

 singly on shelves in the fruit-room, which should be cool and dry. Spare no 

 pains to protect ripe fruit from birds and insects. Continue to make new planta- 

 tions of Strawherries. If not already done, all the runners on the bearing plants 

 intended to remain another year should be cut off and cleared away, and the soil 

 between the plants should be forked over. Preparations for the planting of 

 fruit-trees next month may now be commenced. — M. Saul, Stourton^ Yorkshire. 



VEGETABLES. 



DuEiNG this month Onion crops should be harvested. It is not advisable to 

 let them become over-ripe before they are taken from the ground, as the better 

 they are ripened off, the worse they keep, as a rule — which is a fact that should 

 not be lost sight of. Doubtless the best way of preserving the crop is to rope 

 the best, when they may be hung in a cool, airless place, and all decaying ones 

 may be readily removed, ere they can cause injury to those that are sound and 

 good. Tomatos will now require constant attention, with the view of inducing 

 the fruit to ripen off freely ; all leaves which unduly shade them must be 

 removed, and the points of all growing shoots pinched back. Should a dry 

 period intervene, it "will be absolutely necessary to well deluge the roots of all 

 such crops as autumn Caulijlouwrs^ Peas, Beans, &c., as without a sufficiency of 

 root moisture they cannot produce the necessary crop of crisp vegetables fit for 

 table. As it is at all times judicious to make two sowings of all kinds of seed 

 intended for main crops and which have to withstand our variable winters, 

 it will be wise to make at least two sowings of CavUfloicers for the spring 

 crop. According to the state of the former sowing at this time, so should 

 the Buccessional sowing be timed to succeed it. Make successional sow- 

 ings of Lettuces of the Browyi Cos and Hardy Winter Cahhage kinds ; sow 

 also a good breadth of Endive, as it will come in well for the early winter 

 supply. Continue successionally to transplant all such as are sufficiently large 

 so to treat, during every showery period that occurs, as thei'e will be no danger 

 of their " running " to seed after this date. Radishes should also be sown for 

 more permanent crops, — to afford longer supplies than previously. Hoe and 

 otherwise stir the soil well amongst all growing crops, and especially young 

 seedling crops, such as Spinach, &c. Prepare some necessary kind of protection 

 to place over the late out-door crop of Dwarf French Beans, should symptoms of 

 early frosts exhibit themselves ; as not infrequently it so happens that an 

 assured protection against a single early frost will leave the supply uninjured, to 

 afford many subsequent pickings,— William Eabley, Valentines, 



