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FRUITS. The same as last month. 



065. Put down vegetables as directed for last month, Sow 

 kidney-beans, parsnips, carrots, peas, potatoes, and all vegetable 

 seed for the cold season. Attend particularly to your vines, 

 open apple trees, &c. This is the best month for planting out 

 strawberries. 



The rain varies very much during this month ; seldom any 

 quantity falls from two to three inches, when the monsoon may 

 be considered over. Thermometer until the 20th or 25th from 

 seventy-five to eighty-four degrees. 



NOVEMBER. 



Now the cold season has set in, and your garden should be 

 well stocked with young plants. The Europe vegetables which 

 would not come to perfection before, if planted now will thrive 

 well ; such as broad- windsor and kidney-beans, and parsnips. 



EUROPE VEGETABLES in season, the same as last month. 



COUNTRY VEGETABLES. Almost every description enumerated 

 in the list. 



Obs. Plant out your cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, celery 

 and beet. 



Sow turnips white and red, Cape carrots, and onions for 

 stock, Look to your artichoke plants ; have them well earthed 

 up : remove weeds well from strawberry beds, and put out plants 

 for the latest crop. Cape gooseberry and roselle are now in 

 abundance, and fit for preserves. Open your peach trees. 

 Blackberries coming in. Towards the end of the month your 

 apples and peaches are in blossom. Put down potatoes ; earth 

 up the Jerusalem artichokes ; cover the globular kind with 

 ashes all over, to protect them from flies, which do great 

 damage. Rain seldom falls this month, though the clouds are 

 heavy and threatening, generally end in a blight. The grape- 

 vines suffer most those that have not been cut and opened 

 until late, particularly. 



DECEMBER- 



In this delightful cool month your garden should be in the 

 best and most promising condition, and the European vegetables 

 well forward : and those now in season are 



