THE CAMPAIGN IN SEPTEMBER. 



will be too small to stand the winter. Like let- 

 tuce, they can be started in a small bed any- 

 where in the garden, and left to grow to the 

 middle or latter part of October, when they 

 must be removed to cold frames, as will be here- 

 after described. I would advise that a good 

 sprinkling of lime be raked into the land on 

 which the seed is to be sown, and that the cul- 

 tivator see to it that none of the Cabbage fam- 

 ily, and also that neither turnips nor radishes 

 have grown on the ground of his seed-bed for 

 a year or two previous. Where this has been 

 the case, his plants will be very apt to contract 

 a disease known as club-root, and though lime 

 is a preventative, he would have no certainty 

 against failure. His only safety is to use lime 

 or bone-dust freely, and to sow his seed where 

 nothing has been grown for two or three years 

 that seems to draw the insect so fatal to the 

 Cabbage tribe. 



