416 CALENDAR — OCTOBER. 



OCTOBER. 



Kitchen Grarden. — 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, car- 

 rots, parsnips, by the end of the month. 



Fruit G-arden. — 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, the longest-keeping sorts not 

 before the end of the month, if the weather be mild; 

 a part of them may be placed in a close cellar. 



Forcing. — Assist hotbeds and pits Avith fresh linings, 

 to keep up the declining heat of such as have not 

 ripened their crops. Late vineries and peach-houses 

 will still require the application of fire-heat to ripen 

 the wood; for if this be not accomplished, the next crop 

 will be inferior both in quantity and quality. Give 

 abundance of air to the pinery in good weather, gra- 

 dually lowering the heat. Prune and dress early vines 



