September October 



quickly. A few plants potted now may prove exceedingly valuable 

 in winter. 



Potatoes that are ready should be taken up with reasonable 

 care. It is not wise to wait for the dying down of the shaws, because, 

 when the tubers are fully grown, they ripen as well in the store, out of 

 harm's way, as in the ground, where they are exposed to influences 

 that are simply destructive. 



Sorrel to be removed to final position, allowing a distance of 

 eighteen inches between the plants each way. When growth ceases 

 for the season, give a liberal dressing of rich decayed manure. 



Spinach. In favourable seasons and forward localities Winter 

 Spinach sown in the first half of this month will make a good plant 

 before winter. Thin the plants that are already up to six inches 

 apart. 



Tomatoes are in request the year through. Seed sown now will 

 produce plants that should afford fine fruit in March, and it will 

 need care and judgment to carry them safely through the winter. 



OCTOBER 



WEEDS and falling leaves are the plagues of the season. It may 

 seem that they do no harm, but assuredly they are directly injurious 

 to every crop upon the ground, for they encourage damp and dirt by 

 preventing a free circulation of air amongst the crops, and the access 

 of sunshine to the land. Keep all clean and tidy, even to the 

 removal of the lower leaves of Cabbages, where they lie half decayed 

 upon the ground. 



The heavy rains of this month interfere in a material degree with 

 outdoor work, and are often a great impediment to the orderly manage- 

 ment that should prevail. The accumulation of rubbish anywhere, 

 even if out of sight, is to be deplored as an evil altogether. The 

 injury to vegetation is as great as that inflicted on our own health 

 when dirt poisons the air and damp hastens the general dissolution- 

 On clay soils the accumulation of dead leaves and other vegetable 

 detritus is productive of miasma. It is therefore above all things 

 necessary to keep the garden clean from end to end. All decay ing refuse 

 that can be put into trenches should be got out of sight as soon as 

 possible, to rot harmlessly instead of infecting the air, and leaves should 

 be often swept up into heaps, in which form they cease to be 

 injurious, although, when spread upon the ground and trodden under 



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