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WORK TO BE DONE IN THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 



Some persons who write on gardening, content themselves by 

 simply saying that such a thing should be sown in such a month; 

 this gives a latitude in the present, of thirty days, so that an inex- 

 perienced person may be led to think that he is within due bounds, 

 if he sows on the 30th of September, what ought to have been sown 

 in the first week, perhaps about the first day thereof, whilst expe- 

 rienced gardeners well know that a difference of three or four days, 

 particularly in this month, makes a greater odds, in crops, than 

 most people could imagine would be consequent on the difference 

 of as many weeks. 



I am not an advocate for sowing seeds on a particular day of the 

 week or month, nor in the full or wane of the moon, nor when the 

 wind blows from the east, west, or any particular point of the com- 

 pass; these ridiculous and superstitious notions have been long 

 since deservedly banished out of the well-informed world; but in 

 this month, above all others in the year, there is an absolute neces- 

 sity of sowing certain crops within a few days of particular periods, 

 in order to ensure the best possible success, so that the plants may 

 not become too strong before winter, and consequently be subject 

 to start to seed early in spring, previously to their attaining due 

 perfection, nor be too weakly to endure the severities of the ensu- 

 ing winter. 



Spinage. 



Hoe and clean your advancing crops of spinage, and let the plants 

 be thinned out to proper distances in order to afford sufficient room 

 for the production of large succulent leaves. 



In the first week of this month prepare some good dry ground for 

 a full crop of spinage for winter and spring use. In the eastern 

 states, particularly, this work should not be delayed later, nor 

 indeed in the middle states if it can be well avoided; but in a 

 favourable season, and a warm soil and exposure, it may succeed 

 very well in the middle states if sown so late as the fifteenth or 

 even the twentieth of the month; the more to the southward the 

 later it may be sown. 



The best sort to endure cold is the prickly seeded kind, which is 

 what most people sow at this season, it being much hardier than 

 the round seeded sort; of this there are two or three varieties, dif- 

 fering only in the size of their leaves; but the largest and most 

 profitable sort is what gardeners call the burdock-spinage. A thin 



