378 The Profitable Culture of Vegetables. 



SEPTEMBER. 



WEEDS are always with us, and may be regarded either 

 as a blessing or a curse, according to the point of 

 view. In moderate quantities, when they have not yet grown 

 large enough to do any particular harm, but are sufficiently in 

 evidence to make their destruction imperative, they may be re- 

 garded as a disguised blessing, because the operation necessary 

 to their removal is a decided benefit to the crops they grow 

 amongst ; but it needs a temperament bright and cheerful far 

 above the average to regard them otherwise than as a curse 

 when a clean garden is again filled with seeds from foul and 

 neglected land near by. This usually happens in September, 

 and as, at present, there is no law to punish such neglect, the 

 only thing to do is to " keep them down," or worse will follow. 



GENERAL OPERATIONS: p s a e g e e 



Globe Artichoke suckers may be blanched for Chards at end of month.. 143 

 Cabbage plants for spring cutting should be set out ... ... ... 171 



Cardoons should now be blanched ... . ,. 173 



Celery should be earthed up ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 188 



Cole worts should be planted between Cabbages 199 



Hardy Cos and Cabbage Lettuce should be sown in the second week... 222 

 Mushroom Beds may be made ... ... ;..... ... ... ... 235 



Trim large leaves off Parsley and arrange to protect in frost or snow... 254 



Radishes may be sown in the open ... ..; - 286 



Spring-sown Onions should be harvested ... ... ... ... ... 246 



Spinach should be sown on a dry bed for winter and spring 312 



Strawberry runners may be planted ... . 325 



Tomatoes should be regularly trimmed ... ... ... ... ... 347 



Turnips should be sown for " tops " in spring 360 



FRENCH GARDENING: 



Celery (main-crop should be covered with mats for blanching 192 



Cabbage Lettuce (Hardy) for standing in open-air beds through the 

 winter, should be sown in the middle of the month and pricked out 



in nursery beds about a week later ... 222 



Cauliflowers should be sown in the second and third weeks ...85 and 180 



Endive should be tied up for blanching as it comes ready 211 



Melon beds should be cleared of fruit and haulms and the Cauliflowers 



copiously watered ... 229 



Radishes may be sown on the manure beds after early Celery ... ... 286 



At the end of the month prepare beds, frames, and cloches for Cauli- 

 flowers and Lettuces to pass through the winter ... 181 and 220 



