GARDENING. 



mow lawns ; trim flower plants, and ga- 

 ther their seeds ; plant autumnal bulbs; 

 and destroy weeds very carefully. 



In the Nursery. Water freely; trans- 

 plant seedlings ; trim evergreens ; bud in 

 the early clays; and prepare ground for 

 transplanting. 



In the Green-House. Shift succulent 

 plants into larger vessels ; propagate aloes 

 by offsets from the old plants; inoculate 

 orange trees; and water so as to keep 

 the soil from caking. 



In the Hot-House. Water freely every 

 other day; shift the succession of pine- 

 apples into larger pots, in which they are 

 to bear ; give but little water to ripening 

 pines, lest the flavour be weakened. 



SEPTEMBER. 



Kitchen-garden. Now prepare your 

 beds for mushrooms, making them of the 

 best fresh stable dung, in which the best 

 spawn should be set ; if heavy rain should 

 fall before completed, cover with long 

 dry litter ; take care only to cover the 

 spawn about half an inch. Keep these 

 beds very dry in winter ; in very hot 

 weather sprinkle occasionally with wa- 

 ter. A mushroom bed will produce in 

 five or six weeks ; and old cucumber beds 

 will often produce immense numbers. 

 Plant and sow lettuces ; put some also 

 into frames for winter service. Set out 

 your young cauliflowers into a nursery 

 bed, to stand the winter. Earth up the 

 Michaelmas cauliflowers, and urge them 

 to perfection, watering them abundantly, 

 else they will be stunted. Transplant 

 your young brocoli. Plant out your late 

 savoys and cabbages, also your celery and 

 coleworts. Earth up your ridged celery. 

 Tye up endive to blanch, and plant out 

 more for a succession. Begin to blanch 

 the more forward cardoons. Weed 

 your young spinach and winter onions. 

 Hoe your turnips in dry weather with a 

 bold hand. Continue to sow small salad- 

 ing, chervil, &c. ; and gather your ripe 

 seeds in fair weather. 



In the Fruit-garden. Thin the leaves 

 fVom over your ripening wall-fruit, espe- 

 cially your grapes ; hang up phials of 

 syrup every where, to decoy wasps 

 and flies ; gather your apples and pears ; 

 prepare for plantations of fruit trees, 

 and set out strawberries at good dis- 

 tances. 



In the Flower-garden. Plant your hya- 

 cyhth and tulip roots for early bloom ; 

 prepare beds for your ranunculuses and 

 anemones, sorting the seeds late in the 



month ; look to your carnation layers, 

 and to your auriculas that are in pots ; 

 sow auricula seed, if not done before ; 

 transplant perennials; sow seeds of 

 bulbs ; plant box ; dig borders ; roll gra- 

 vel walks; trim flowering plants; propa- 

 gate fibrous-rooted plants; transplant 

 p ionics, and other knot-rooted plants ; as 

 also flowering shrubs in general. 



In the JVursery. Trail sp lant evergre ens, 

 deciduous shrubs and trees ; prepare 

 ground for receiving your late grafts, 

 and for new stocks ; propagate trees and 

 shrubs by cuttings ; preserve cherry and 

 plum stones to raise stocks ; and destroy 

 weeds and nests of vermin. 



In the Green-house. Prepare for the re- 

 turn of your oranges, &c. which, as the 

 weather becomes colder, must be taken 

 in, and gradually be more confined in re- 

 gard to the atmosphere. 



In the Hot-house Admit air only when 

 the sun is bright, and the wind from a 

 warm quarter ; water your pine plants 

 moderately ; add fresh tan to your 

 pits ; and prepare composts for this 

 branch. 



OCTOBER. 



Kitchen-garden. Plant beans for aft 

 early crop, preferring mazagans; you 

 may also sow some hotspur peas for the 

 same purpose ; transplant lettuces for 

 winter service, and sow some for spring 1 

 use ; cover your cauliflower plants ; set 

 out your cabbages ; force your brocoli, 

 by loosening the soil, and drawing it 

 around their stems ; clean your winter 

 spinach, tie up endive, and dress your 

 bed of aromatics ; plant and set slips of 

 herbs; dress asparagus beds; earth up 

 celery and cardoons; sow small salading* 

 and radishes, also carrots for spring use ; 

 dig up carrots, parsnips, and potatoes : 

 begin trenching, for the benefit of winter 

 exposure. 



In the Fruit-garden. Gather your late 

 pears and apples ; prune and nail your 

 wall-trees, also your standards, when the 

 leaf has fallen ; plant goosberries and 

 currants, also prune them, and set the 

 cuttings; dress strawberry beds, plant 

 the runners ; prune raspberries, and 

 plant the young shoots ; propagate fruit 

 trees by layers and by suckers. 



In the Flower-garden. Put your auricu r 

 lar plants in safe places, laying them on 

 their sides to throw off the wet ; set out 

 your carnation layers ; dress your flow- 

 ering shrubs ; transplant fibrous-rooted 

 flowering plant?, parting the roots of such 



