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radish, cabbage, and turnips. Earth up the earliest rows of celery ; earth up 

 leeks, hoe between potatoes to give air to the roots, plant out broccoli, and every 

 kind of winter green3 as fast as you get vacant spaces. Sow cauliflower the third 

 week, to keep over winter in frames. The main crop of cabbage for spring use 

 should be sown between the 12th and 20th. Remove decayed leaves from 

 cucumbers and gourds, to prevent the growth of moulds and fungi about them in 

 damp weather, and take cuttings, or sow seed, for cucumbers to fruit during 

 winter. 



FRUIT GARDEN. 



Where fruit is wanted to be kept hanging, throw a net over the bushes, to 

 keep off the birds, and give a little shade. Put wasp traps about vines and 

 peaches, or stick a few lumps of loaf sugar among the branches, and as long as 

 there is any sugar left they will not touch a single fruit. Nail in all good shoots 

 on wall trees, that they may have the heat of the wall to ripen them. Make 

 beds of strawberries, if not yet done. 



GREENHOUSE AND STOYE. 



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 hardened 

 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, tenothera, collinsia, veronica syriaca, migponette, 

 etc. Give plenty of air to stove plants, and get a good stock of young pines for- 

 ward. Yines that have ripened their fruit should be well cleared, and have 

 thorough ventilation. Whatever painting or repairing is required should be 

 attended to forthwith. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Heliotropes. — C. M. — The Heliotrope must be wintered under glass. It is 

 the most tender of all the bedding plants, and will not bear the slightest frost. 

 It may be propagated by cuttings of the young tops in the same way as verbenas. 

 The cuttings are best struck under glasses in a mixture of peat and silver-sand, 

 and should always be kept in a moderately growing state. 



Dwarf Fruit-trees. — 2?. j3., Devon. — Procure nursery plants of the sorts 

 you want during the autumn ; the pears on quince stock, the apples on the 

 paradise. They should have been worked just above the collar, and not have 

 been disbudded on the main stem. When planted, trim them with a pruning- 

 knife to a regular shape, cutting long shoots back to an outside bud, and entirely 

 clearing away all the ill-placed ones. Next season, as they make their growth, 

 pinch them back — that is as fast as new shoots require a length of a foot or four- 

 teen inches — nip out the point, repeating this occasionally until August ; after 

 which pinch no more, but let the wood ripen. The knife ought never to touch 

 them after the first pruning from the nursery, and they should be taken up, and 

 carefully but not severely root-pruned every year. With good soil, good sorts, 

 and good aspect, this plan is sure to prove successful. 



Worms in Pots. — Thomat Mill. — The best way to prevent is to treat the 

 potting stuff previous to planting to a good dose of boiling water. Have the pots 

 ready filled a day before they are used, and water the soil in them well with 

 boilmg water. Scald also as much as you will require for filling in. Next day it 

 will be none too moist to work with, and there will not be a living creature in it. 

 A dose of boiling water round the woodwork of the bin will clear away woodlice. 

 It is not advisable to destroy the earthworms in the stuff heaped up in the open 



August. 



