•620 GARDEN MANAGEMENT. 



•* Grieve, oh ye Autnmn Winds ! 



Summer lies low ; 

 The rose's trembling leaves will soon be shed. 



For she that loved her so, 

 Alas, is dead ! 



And one by one her loving children go. 



*' Wail, oh ye Autumn Winds ! 



She Uvea no more. 

 The gentle Summer, with her balmy breath, 



Still sweeter than before, 

 When nearer death, 



And brighter every day the smile she wore. 



*• Mnurn, mourn, oh Autumn Winds ! 

 Lament and mourn. 

 How many half-blown buds must close and die; 



Hopes with the summer born 

 All faded He, 

 And leave us desolate, and earth forlorn." 



D. T. F. 



§ 3.— Kitchen-Garden. 



1941. Towards the end of the month the asparagus-beds may be cleared of 

 their haum, but not till it is yellow and the seed ripe, and a portion of the 



isoil forked into the alleys ; then mix some good manure with a little salt, and 

 lay a good coating of it over the plants, covering the whole with the soil 

 thrown into the alleys. 



1942. Celery. — Earth-up as often as it becomes necessary, not only for 

 blanching, but to preserve the plants from injury by frost. 



1943. Sealcale will now be ready to force towards the end of the month, 

 either by removal to a forcing-bed, or by covering the plants with pots, and 

 these with stable-manure on the beds. 



1944. Cardoons should now receive a general earthing-up, choosing dry 

 open weather for the operation, first gathering up the leaves and tying them 

 t»Dgether with a hayband. The peas and beans are now past ; let the ground 

 be cleared, and, where vacant, dug or trenched, or ridged up, so that it may 

 have the advantage of fallowing from the sim and air, and salts from the 

 snows of winter. 



1945. Catrots, Potatoes, and Parsnips, are now at maturity. Dig them up 

 ;and store for the winter, so as to protect them from frost. The three- 



•onged potato-fork, with broad tines, rounded and blunt at the points, is a 

 fell-known implement ; it is usual, where the haum is strong, to cut off the 

 ps, and by inserting the fork under the whole plant, turn the whole up in a 

 mass, the potatoes being collected after the digger in baskets : they may 

 either be stored in a suitable room, or stored away in pits in the open 

 .ground, propeaiy drained and covered, first with a layer of earth, then with a 

 thatching of clean straw, and then with soil sufl&ciently thick to protect them 

 from the severest frosts. 



1946. Small crops of Mazagaii Beans may be planted, with a chance of their 

 standing the winter, and coming in in May or June. A crop of Earhj Peai 



