o90 SEPTEMBER. iECT. XX, 



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SEPTEMBER. 



-Gardens begin now to fail of their wonted 

 beauty, and therefore dying flowers, all litter, and 

 every tiling unfightly, admonifh the gardener to trim 

 his plants, and clean the ground frequently, that all 

 may be pretty if not gay. An attention oif this foit, 

 stirring the ground, and raking it, will give an air of 

 jrcjhiejs and culture highly pleating and creditable. 



MISCELLANEOUS WORK. 



See beginning of laft month, twelve firft articles. 

 Shrubs free from fuckers, dig about, &c. 111. 

 Prepare ground for planting trees and fhrubs, 103. 

 Turf, lay as a good time, beat, roll, and water. 

 Gather fruits as. they ripen, and (lore them well, 26£i 

 Grapes, tie fine ripe bunches up in gauze or crape. 

 Figs, keep in clofe training to ripen the fruit, 15 1 . 

 Cucumbers cover on nights to prevent the fpot, 190. 

 Pickling cucumbers, gather before they get fpotted. 

 Melons carefully prote£l from cold and wet, 200. 

 Cauliflowers, prick out, put fome on flight heat, 214. 

 Ditto, Michaelmas crop, if dry weather, water often. 

 Lettuces, prick out, at 4 or 5 inches, fouth border. 

 Herb-beds mould be cleared and drefTed this month, 846. 

 Nnflurtiums gather before ripe for pickling, 2h'6. 

 Onions, being dry and hard, take in, foit, &c. 253, 

 Gariich, jhalcts, and rocambole, tie up, and flore, $91, 

 Seeds, fuch as arc well dried, drefs and put up, 36, oiK 

 Beans, late, top them as foon as if) flower, 20f. 



sow 



Spinach, turncps, Welch onions (thick) and endive, firft 

 week, for late faring ufc. Radilhes of all forts, bin 



chiefly 



