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sies, and putting them into a nursery-bed for the winter. 

 Pot chrysanthemum layers by the end of the month. Keep 

 all dahlias and tall herbaceous plants properly staked and 

 tied up, as they are very liable to be broken by high winds 

 at this season. The same attention must be given to the 

 cleaning and dressing of this department as directed for 

 the former months. Plant evergreens ; make layers, and 

 put in cuttings of most of the hard-wooded sorts of 

 shrubby plants, about the middle and end of the month, as 

 many will succeed better at that season than if these opera- 

 tions were delayed to a later period. 



OCTOBER. 



Kitchen Garden. Sow small salads and radishes in the 

 first week ; Mazagan and Marshall's dwarf beans and early 

 frame peas (Warwick variety) in the last week. If the 

 winter prove mild, they will be somewhat earlier than those 

 sown next month or in January. Prepare and make up 

 mushroom-beds. 



Plant early cabbages in close rows for spring use. A bed 

 of cauliflowers in the last week, to receive the protection 

 of a three-light frame ; or, at any rate, plant cauliflower at 

 the bottom of a high wall or hedge in a sheltered situation. 

 Earth up celery and cardoons. 



Store potatoes, beet, salsify, scorzonera, skirret, carrots, 

 parsnips, by the end of the month. 



Fruit Garden. Such fruit trees as have dropped their 

 leaves may be transplanted. Protect fig-trees, if the 

 weather prove frosty, as soon as they have cast their leaves. 

 Cover late crops of grapes on hot walls with woolen nets or 

 mats, to prevent injury from frost. Store and lay up very 

 carefully during the month all sorts of apples and pears, 



