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once on well prepared* soil ; the old dates used to be about the 1 2th, 

 but any time from the 1st to that date will secure you good plants, not 

 liable to run to seed. A supply of Cauliflowers for standing over the 

 winter in frames and handglasses should be sown between the 20th 

 and the end of the month, and the true Bath Cos, and some good hardy 

 Cabbage Lettuce, at the same time. As the summer crops of Peas, 

 Beans, Cauliflowers, and Potatoes, are cleared off, fill up every avail- 

 able space with Coleworts, Winter Greens, Brussels Sprouts, Broccoli, 

 &c, the Potato disease is making great havoc this season. Greens of 

 all kinds will be more than useful next spring. Turnips, for winter, 

 may be sown up to the middle of the month ; also Spinach and a few 

 Horn Carrots. Earth up the forwardest Celery. 



Peach-house. — As the wood becomes ripened, which may be known 

 by its assuming a reddish brown tinge and leaves becoming yellow, take 

 off the sashes and fully expose the trees. The late houses should have 

 their foliage attended to to keep down insects and assist the ripening 

 process, until the trees, as above, will bear exposure. 



Pelargoniums. — As soon as the plants have broken sufficiently, they 

 should be shaken out of the old soil, and, after having been disrooted, 

 put into as small pots as they will conveniently go into. Drain care- 

 fully, and place some vegetable fibre over the drainage, so as to prevent 

 stoppage. After the plants are potted they should be placed in a frame 

 or pit, and be kept close for a time, and be well shaded during the day. 

 Watering is an operation at this time requiring very great care. The 

 mould must be kept moist but not sodden ; still it is necessary when 

 the plants are watered that they have a quantity sufficient to go quite 

 through the pots. When the plants have taken root give air, but use 

 shading only in the middle of the day, or when the sun is very powerful, 

 say for a week or so, when it may be kept off entirely, and air given 

 more freely. 



Pinery. — The best grown plants should now be potted into fruiting 

 pots, if not done, for the earliest supply next spring; use pure loam, 

 and well drain the pots ; they will then take water often without its 

 injuring the soil. A portion of the stock may remain for two or three 

 weeks longer to keep up a succession. Suckers and succession plants 

 will also require potting, and may have, at this season, a good shift, as 

 they will grow freely from now to the end of October, and should not 

 be potted again. 



Pinks. — These should be planted into beds that have been prepared 

 for them, as soon as sufficiently rooted. The beds should have been 

 trenched and mixed with good rotten manure, and some loam if the 

 soil is light. By early planting, Pinks winter better and produce 

 larger flowers. The remainder of the stock should be planted out in 

 spare beds much nearer together. Look well after the grubs, so 

 very destructive to the young plants at this season. 



Vinery. — The late crops should be kept growing by a moist atmo- 

 sphere. Keep down insects, and apply fires to Muscats on wet days. 

 The sashes may now be taken from the earliest forced houses, as the 

 wood, by this time, will be well ripened, and the foliage beginning to 

 decay, and of no further use for supplying nutrition. 



