392 OCTOBER, SECT. XX. 



Lilies and other fcaly bulbous roots, plant foon, 287. 



Offsets from bulbs mud be planted immediately, 287. 



Beds for bulbous and tuberous roots, prepare, 2 ( J3. 



Edgings' of box, thrift, or pinks, plant, cut, or repair. 



Pots of flowers bring from fhady fituations to more 

 funny ones ; exotics, put in time under fome degree 

 of fhelter, according to their nature ; the fucculent 

 ■plants are impatient of wet, and cold, as alio varie- 

 gated geraniums ; take them in foon ; but give plenty 

 of mild air. 



Minhnettt in pots for winter, place under a fouth wall. 



NURSERY. 



Weedjlir the foil, clean up, and water, if dry weather. 



Dig about young trees, at the end of this, or the be- 

 ginning of next month, as direHed, 79. 



Prepare ground for planting, next month. Stocks and 

 feedlings, and fowing feeds of trees and fhrubs, 71, 

 &c. Cherry Stones may now be (own. Evergreen feed- 

 lings lhould be planted out, lafl week, and watered, 

 if a dry time, 72. 



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OCTOBER. 



This is the chief month of the year for planting 

 trees, fhrubs, &c. No part of it mould be loft, in 

 either working the .ground well for the purpofe, or 

 putting in the plants without delay : Early planting, 

 if the ground is fit, is of much conference. EJcuknts 

 are to have their winter quarters provided them as foon 

 as poflible in the month, as at the end of it the weather 

 is often bed. 



Now the virtues of indufiry and pcrfeverance will 

 be tried to keep the grounds clean from tailing leaves, 

 tec. The garden, however, ought yet to be a fource 



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