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THE GAEDEN GUIDE FOR SEPTEMBER. 



THE PLOWEE GAEDEN. 



! LL border plants of questionable hardiness, or that are of high value, 

 should be taken up and potted, to keep over winter in frames, where 

 they are more safe from the attacks of slugs and snails, and from 

 liability to suffer by damp. Pot off rooted layers of carnations and 

 picotees, and rooted offsets of auriculas, to get them strong before 

 winter. Continue to propagate bedding plants, and get struck cuttings into 

 small pots for the winter. Calceolarias should be struck in quantities, in shallow 

 pans, in a compost of leaf-mould, peat, and sand, and to be kept in the pans till 

 early spring. Get lender plants under glass in good time, but give plenty of 

 air. Sow hardy annuals on firm ground, to stand the winter, for early bloom 

 next season. Gather seeds of all kinds, as soon as ripe. Plant the first crop of 

 hyacinths, tulips, and daffodils, which b'oom stronger and earlier if grown as soon 

 as the bulbs are obtained. 



KITCHEN GARDEN. 



Continue to plant out winter greens ; many of the smallest plants left in 

 seed-beds will now be strong, and will be useful early in spring, when the main 

 crops are exhausted. Thin winter spinach to three inches apart, to be thinned 

 again to six inches ; but it is better to thin twice, in case of gaps occurring 

 through attacks of wire-worm. Winter spinach may still be sown, but it is 

 getting late for it. Prick out cauliflowers, either in a bed, made so as to be 

 covered wi'h a frame, or into patches, to be covered with hand-lights. They 

 should be four inches apart. Continue to sow saladings, and the last succession 

 of lettuce, choosing for the purpose the hardiest sorts. Take up potatoes as soon 

 as the haulm decays; take up carrots and beet-root as wanted, but the main 

 crops, for storing, may remain in the ground till next month. Parsnips may be 

 left, in the ground all winter, or taken up and stored, if the plot is wanted for 

 winter greens. Onions should be drawn, and laid in the sun to harden. Any 

 that are thick in the necks should be broken over close to the ground, and left 

 awhile to induce them to ripen their bulbi. 



PBTTIT GAEDEN. 



Gather very carefully all fruit sufficiently ripe for storing Put the bruised 

 and damaged aside for immediate U3e, and store only those that are without 

 bruises or damage of vermin. Gather in dry weather, and during sunshine. 



GREENHOUSE AND STOVE. 



Put into the most sunny spots all hard-wooded plants that require to be well 

 ripened before housing, and if heavy rains set in, cover them with a spare light. 

 Get cinerarias and primulas for early blooming into the house, but give plenty 

 of light and air, to induce a robust habit in the stock. Pines must be kept 

 growing vigorously, by means of a humid atmosphere and plenty of manure- 

 water. Remove the shading from the pits. In vineries, shade the fruit intended 

 to hang any length of time. Vines fruited early will now be disposed to break ; 

 do not hurry them, but when they start of their own accord, which they will do 

 after a regular course of early forcing, encourage them with a temperature of 

 about 55° to 60° bottom-heat ; for pines in growth, 84°. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Hahdt Perennials. — W. Y., Osrington. — It is almost too late now to raise 

 perennials for next year to have them strong; but hollyhocks, wall-flowers, sweet- 

 williams, antirrhinums, phloxes, silenes, arabis, alyssum, aquilegias, perennial 

 poppies, perennial asters, aubrietias, daisies, perennial valerian, campiinulas, 

 centaurea, cistus, delphinium, diauthus, eschscholtzias, hardy gaillardias, perennial 



September. 



