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much demand for potting composts, the 

 kitchen garden will supply usefuL material 

 for the muck-pit, which is a more econo 

 mical method in the long ran than the 

 burning of rubbish, though the 1 tter is a 

 clean and quick way to get rid of it, and 

 the ashes are useful. Save ail the soot 

 that can be got to make a puddle for dip- 

 ping the roots of broccolis, cabbages, etc., 

 •when plaining out from the seed-bed, and 

 store away at once all pea-sticks worth 

 keeping, to preserve tidiness and prevent 

 wasie. 



Celery is now all put out for culture in 

 trendies, and must have abundance of 

 water during dry weather. But there may 

 Btill be left a quantity of plants in the bed 

 requiring removal, and it will be good 

 economy to plant these out in the same 

 way as winter greens, from four to six 

 inches apart, on the level ground, with or 

 without manure, as may be convenient. 

 For all culinary purposes this will be as 

 useful in winter as celery from trenches, 

 and so much more hardy, that if early 

 frosts sbould injure the remainder of the 

 crop of blanched celery, this lot of small 

 plants will remain uninjured, and will 

 come in useful for soups, etc. 



Celery to be earthed up with care after 

 heavy rain, or a good watering ; take care 

 the mould does not get into the hearts. 



Cauliflowers to be sown on raised beds 

 of fine rich earth ; when they have taeir 

 first rough leaves, to be taken up and 

 potted in thumb pots in good fuchsia com- 

 post, and the pots plunged in a bed of coal- 

 ashes. As soon as tlie pots are full of 

 roots, to be shitted to 60's, and in these to 

 be wintered in frames, the pots plunged to 

 the rim to prevent frost touching their 

 roots. This may seem a dandified way of 

 treating cauliflowers ; we can only say 

 that experience has taught us that it pays 

 better 111 the end than any other method 

 lor a crop to plant out early in the spring. 



Muck Pa.— There will lor several weeks 

 be vast accumulations of rubbish by re- 

 moval of pea, bean, and potato haulm, 

 aud other materials tor manure. By this 

 time the muck-pits are generally full of 

 grass mowings and other summer sweep- 

 ings ; but the economical gardener will 

 never waste a scrap of anything that can 

 be rotted into compost, and room must be 

 made no>v for the extra supplies. It is a 

 common thing to see rubbish thrust into 

 holes full of water, in order that it may 

 rot the quicker, the parties forgettiug that 

 water washes out all the goodness of the 

 material. It would be better to accumu- 

 late vegetable refuse in one large heap, to 

 undergo fermentation and decay without 



the help of adventitious mristure ; and 

 if any offensive smell results, throw a 

 layer of earth over the heap. Common 

 mould is the best of all deodorizers. 



Soto horn carrot on dry sandy borders 

 for supply in early spring, endive for spring 

 use, lettuce to stand the winter, Tripoli and 

 Strasbourgh onions to stand the winter, 

 turnips, Flandeis spinach, collards, prickly 

 spinach, radishes, parsnep chervil, Early 

 York, Battersea, Shilling's Queen, and 

 Rosewort cabbage, Early Hoin carrot, 

 green curled endive. 



Winter Greens lately planted are now 

 doing well. Breadths that were planted 

 early and close now require every other 

 plant to be removed, and there will be 

 room for this now that summer crops are 

 being cleared off. For every kind of green 

 to be used between this time and Christ- 

 mas manure liberally, but for those to 

 stand till spring do not manure at all. 



Fruit Garden. — Bush Fruits require 

 attention now that the crop is gathered. 

 Tnin the present year's growth, tie and 

 nail all the bushes on fences and wires, and 

 give the trees their final shape for fruiting 

 next year. Thin out the new canes of 

 raspberry stools, so as to leave only three 

 or four of the strongest to each. As soon 

 as the fruit is off, cut the old canes to the 

 ground, and tie out the new ones that the 

 wood may get hard and ripe. If manure 

 is plentiful, mulch the raspb?rries at once, 

 but do not disturb the surface more than 

 may be necessai - y to remove weeds. 



Fruit Trees that are still making young 

 wood must not b.; stopped, or it will cause 

 them to throw out useless side-shoots, and 

 the less the knife is used among them now 

 the better. Espaliers must be tied and 

 nailed before the young wood gets too 

 hard to be brought into regular order 

 without injury. 



Siraivberries. — Plant out the first lot 

 of well- rooted runners in ground well 

 manured, and shade for a week and keep 

 well watered ; th'-se will at once form 

 good crowns, and bear well next season. 

 Lay more runners, always removing them 

 as soon as rooted, as they do better for 

 being on their own feet early, and distress 

 the parent stool less. Now is the best 

 time in the whole year to make new beds, 

 to insure good bearing next year. If 

 rooted runners are plentiful, take the best 

 only, aud destroy all the weak ones ; but 

 any varieties it is thought desirable to 

 p opagatc to the utmost, sort the runners 

 as to sizes, planting the forwardest and 

 strongest in beds to bear, and the late 

 weaker ones in separate beds for stock ; 

 i these latter will probably not bear till the 



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