THE FARMER'S MANUAL. 13$ 



stand over the winter ; nurse your late potatoes ; 

 weed turnips; hoe and weed ruta baga, &c. Finish 

 digging early potatoes. Finish pulling late onions. 

 Continue to clip your strawberries. Continue to 

 gather your seeds as they ripen. 



OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER. 



Gather from your garden all winter vegetables, 

 before the hard frosts commence, particularly winter 

 squashes ; dry and house them carefully. When the 

 frosts commence, let not a weed, nor the seed of a 

 weed have a place in your garden. Gather your ce- 

 lery in dry weather, and pack it in boxes with dry 

 sand, in a warm cellar, leaving the tops and leaves 

 open to the air. Gather ruta baga, beets, car- 

 rots, parsnips and turnips, and secure them in a 

 warm dry cellar. If you pack in casks, or boxes., 

 such as you design for the table, they will richly re- 

 pay your trouble in their extra relish and flavour, 

 particularly your turnips, which may thus be kept 

 sweet over until spring. This may sometimes be 

 done, by covering them under a heap of potatoes, 

 upon the ground. Ruta baga will not become ripe, 

 and obtain its best relish, until February, or March ; 

 it will then supply the place of the turnip, and hold 

 its relish through the summer. Transplant strawber- 

 ries on to rich beds, in rows of 10 inches asunder, 

 and in hills 10 inches distance in the rows, and cover 

 the beds lightly with straw, or other litter, and this 

 with horse-dung. 



DECEMBER. 



Continue to transplant such strawberries as you 

 have neglected the last month ; this must be repeated 



