694 A MONTHLY CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. 



the pots and floor for the fruit to fall upon, and leave the house open 

 on mild days and nights. Protect out-door grapes from wasps by bag- 

 ging the bunches. Gather fruit as it ripens. Expose wall-fruit to the 

 sun and air to give it flavour and colour. Continue to make new 

 strawberry plantations as in last month. Protect and gather the fruit 

 ripening on forced plants. 



OCTOBEK. 



VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 



Artichokes tie up the leaves for producing the chard. Asparagus 

 cut down and winter dress. Beet dig up and lay in sand. Cabbage 

 plant out for the main crop. Cardoons tie up the leaves for blanching. 

 Carrots take up the main crop. Cauliflower prick out under hand- 

 glasses, and into frames. Cucumbers make beds, and sow seed for 

 early crops. Lettuce plant out for the main spring crop. Parsnips 

 take up and preserve in sand. Potatoes take up the main crop. 

 Tomatoes gather the unripe fruit and lay in a forcing-house. Dig 

 and trench ground, and manure during dry weather. Protect and 

 gather autumn Strawberries. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Pinery the plants intended for fruiting next season should now be 

 got into the fruiting-house ; only partially plug the pots at first ; plant 

 all the remaining suckers in spent tan or a dung-bed. Vinery as 

 soon as the leaves have fallen from the vines, prune them ; take off 

 the loose rough bark, and wash them. Peach-house fill vacancies 

 with trees from the walls in the open garden ; take up and plant care- 

 fully. Pot cherry-trees for forcing. Withhold water from fig-trees 

 when the fruit is gathered. Orchard-house gather late fruit ; prune 

 the trees as the leaves fall off; dress the wood with some and- insect 

 compound, and pack them close together to make room for cauli- 

 flowers, Walcheren broccoli, full-grown lettuce, &c., towards the end 

 of the month ; house all fruit trees in pots. Melons keep up the heat 

 of the beds, to forward the ripening of the late fruit. Gather any 

 remaining fruit. Plant fruit trees of all sorts. Prune Currants and 

 Gooseberries, and hardy Apples. 



NOVEMBER. 



VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 



Artichokes cover the roots with litter. Asparagus take up the 

 first lot of roots for forcing. Beans sow first crop. Cauliflowers 

 protect those which have formed heads from frost. Celery take every 

 favourable opportunity to earth it up. Cucumbers ridge out the 

 plants in the fruiting-beds. Endive preserve from frost. Horse- 

 radish dig up for winter use. Jerusalem Artichokes take up for 

 winter use. Peas sow for an early crop. Rhubarb begin to force. 



