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wall-fruit will require protection from birds, 

 wasps, and flies. Some worsted, twined back- 

 wards and forwards from projecting nails, is 

 said to be the best protection from birds ; and 

 bottles of sugar and water, hung from the twigs, 

 will attract the wasps and flies from the fruit. 

 After the fruit of the wall-trees is gathered, the 

 borders are usually lightly forked over, and 

 what is called a top-dressing of fresh compost 

 is spread over them. 



October. — In the flower-garden, the tender 

 greenhouse plants should be taken up. Seeds 

 of the hardy annuals that will stand the winter 

 should be sown, particularly those of the heart's- 

 ease, rocket-larkspur, coreopsis, eschscholtzia, 

 and all the Californian annuals. The best way 

 of managing these is to choose a portion of 

 hard ground, on which a little light earth, six 

 or eight inches deep, has been laid ; in this the 

 seeds should be sown, and the young plants will 

 be ready to remove by spadefuls, to the beds 

 prepared for them, in spring. 



This is the best season for putting hyacinths, 

 tulips, crocuses, and other spring-flowering bulbs 

 and corms, in glasses, to flower in rooms, and for 

 planting in the ground the different varieties of 

 Anemone hoitensis ; taking care, when planting 

 the latter, to keep the eye of the tuber uppermost. 

 All the kinds of paeonies, as well the Paeonia 

 Moutan as the herbaceous species, should be 

 planted in this month. The leaves, which fall 

 in great abundance in October and November, 

 should be regularly swept up, and carried to a 

 rotting heap, that they may decay, and, when 

 mixed with a little soil, make the earth so valu- 



