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length of stem attached, and hang them up in a sunny greenhouse, 

 or some other warm spot in full daylight. 



TURNIP may be sown in the early part of the month. The best 

 sorts now are Jersey Navet, or Snowball. All the Year Round will 

 please those who like a yellow Turnip. 



SEPTEMBER 



WEEDS will be troublesome to the overworked and the idle gardener, 

 while the best kept land will be full of seeds blown upon it from the 

 sluggard's garden, and the first shower will bring them up in terrific 

 force. All that we have to say about them is that they must be kept 

 down, for they will not only choke the rising crops in seed-beds and 

 spoil the look of everything, but they very much tend to keep the 

 ground damp and cold, when, if they were away, it would get dry 

 and warm, to the benefit of all the proper crops upon it. Neglect 

 will make the task of eradication simply terrible, and, in the mean- 

 time, every crop on the ground will suffer. The two great months for 

 weeds are May and September ; but often the September weeds 

 triumph, because the mischief they do is not then so obvious to the 

 casual eye. As there are now many used-up crops that may be 

 cleared away, large quantities of Cabbage, Endive, Lettuce, and even 

 thinnings of Spinach may be planted out to stand the winter. 



CABBAGE. We advocate crowding the land now with Cabbage 

 plants, for growth will be slow and the demands of the kitchen con- 

 stant. Crowding, however, is not quite the same thing as over- 

 crowding, and it is only a waste of labour, land, and crop to put the 

 plants so close together that they have not space for full develop- 

 ment. The usual rule in planting out the larger sorts of Cabbage at 

 this time of the year is to allow a distance every way of two feet 

 between the plants. But we carry the crowding principle so far as to 

 put the small growing Coleworts and other miniature Cabbages in 



the interspaces thus : i '. ; ; i ; ; ; ; the large dots being large Cab- 

 bages, and the small dots Coleworts. The latter are to be all got rid 

 of before spring growth commences. 



CAULIFLOWER. Plant out for the winter, and sow another small 

 pinch of seed in a frame or in a pan in the greenhouse. 



CELERY. Continue to earth up, selecting a dry time for the task; 



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