SEPT.] THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. 469 



days, particularly, in this month, makes a greater odds in crops, 

 than most people could imagine would be consequent on the dif- 

 ference of as many weeks. 



I am not an advocate for sowing seeds on a particular day of the 

 week, or month, nor in the full or wane of the moon, nor when the 

 wind blows from the east, west, or any particular point of the com- 

 pass ; these ridiculous and superstitious notions, have been long 

 since, deservedly, banished out of the well informed world ; but in 

 this month, above all others in the year, there is an absolute ne- 

 cessity of sowing certain crops, within ajfcw days of particular pe- 

 riods, in order to ensure the best possible success ; so thai the 

 plants may not become too strong before winter, and, consequently, 

 be subject to start to seed early in spring, previously to their attain- 

 ing due perfection, nor be too weakly to endure the severities of 



the ensuing winter. 



Sjiinach. 



Hoe and clean your advancing crops of spinach, and let the 

 plants be thinned out to proper distances in order to afford suffi- 

 cient room for the production of large succulent leaves. 



In the first week of this month prepare some good dry ground, 

 for a full crop of spinach, for winter and spring use. In the eas- 

 tern states, particularly, this work should not be delayed later, nor 

 indeed in the middle states if it can be well avoided; but in a favour- 

 able season and a warm soil and exposure, it may succeed very 

 well, in the middle states, if sown so late as the fifteenth or even 

 the twentieth of the month ; the more to the southward, the later 

 it may be sown. 



The best sort to endure cold is the prickly seeded kind, which 

 is what most people sow at this season, its being much hardier than 

 the round seeded sort, of this there are two or three varieties, differing 

 only in the size of their leaves ; but the largest and most profita- 

 ble sort is, what gardeners call the burdock-spinach. A thin sprink- 

 ling of the brown Dutch, Egyptian cos, and hardy cabbage lettuces 

 may be sown among the spinach, and if the winter is any way fa- 

 vourable you may have some good plants from these to transplant 

 early in spring for heading. A few of the early short-top salmon, 

 and white turnep rooted radishes may also be sown among the spi- 

 nach, for use in October and November. Sow the seed thinly in 

 drills about eight inches distant from one another, or broad-cast, 

 and tread it in ; then rake the ground effectually so as to cover the 

 seed well ; or if it be cultivated on a large scale, it may be harrowed 

 in with a light harrow, wrong end foremost. 



When the plants are up and have got leaves an inch broad, or a 

 little better, they must be thinned, either by hand or hoe, to three 

 or four inches asunder, and the weeds effectually cleared away 

 from among them ; by this treatment the plants will get stocky, 

 gather strength, and be the better able to stand the winter frosts. 



