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Planting Kidney Beans. 



At any time before the middle of the month, you may plant a 

 crop of the early cream-coloured, early yellow, or early speckled 

 dwarf kidney-beans ; they will yet succeed very well ; but should 

 the ground and weather, be dry at the time, the drills ought to be 

 watered, and the beans soaked in soft water, four or five hours be- 

 fore planting. 



Solving and transplanting Lettuces. 



Early in the month, sow a good supply of lettuces for fall use ; 

 the kinds proper to sow now, are the grand admiral, brown Dutch, 

 Imperial, large royal, white Cos, Mogul, and New-Zealand lettu- 

 ces ; all these kinds succeed well at this season. Sow them as di- 

 rected in the former months. A succession crop should, also, be 

 sown about the middle of the month. 



In the last week of this month, sow some of the brown Dutch 

 and hardy green cabbage lettuce, and, also, some of the grand ad- 

 miral, to transplant into frames and on warm borders, in October, 

 for winter and spring use ; for the method of protecting them from 

 frost, see November. 



Transplant from the seed-beds, such of your advancing young 

 crops of lettuces, as are grown to a sufficient size ; let this be done 

 as directed in the preceding months, and, if possible, in moist or 

 cloudy weather ; give them a plentiful watering, when planted ; 

 and repeat it frequently, if necessary. Be particular always to sow and 

 plant your lettuces in an open situation, and not to suffer them to 

 be drawn up, or to remain too long in the seed-beds ; otherwise, 

 they will never form good heads. 



Endive. 



Tie up your Endive, which is full grown, or cover them with 

 boards, or tiles, to blanch ; this must be performed when the leaves 

 are very dry, otherwise the plants will rot. Select the large and 

 full-hearted plants, and with bass, or other strings, or with small 

 osier twigs, tie them a little above the middle, not too tight, previ- 

 ously gathering up the leaves regularly in tke hand. 



Transplant, agreeably to the directions given in page 422, such 

 young endive as is now of a proper size, and water it immediately, 

 which repeat, occasionally, till the plants begin to grow freely. These 

 plants must be set in an open situation, and by no means near any 

 kind of shade whatever. 



In the early part of this month, sow a full crop of endive, for 

 late autumn and winter use ; the green curled sort, is by much, 

 the most preferable for this sowing, as being more hardy, and, 

 keeping better, than any other kind. It would be proper to sow 

 some more of the same sort, about the middle of the month ; for 



