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mulched with manure and the water supply increased. 

 Sow Cabbage, French Beans, and Cauliflowers. 



September. Budding and grafting should be finished 

 this month. Lawns should be prepared for grass seed. 



Chrysanthemums in pots should have their shoots tied 

 out. Plants in pots should be looked over and cleaned, 

 and continue to give them manure-water twice a week. 



Plant first batch of Potatoes the last week this month. 



Sow Broad Beans, Spinach, Lettuce, Beet, and Endive. 



October. Annuals may be sown about the middle of 

 the month. Grass lawns from seed should be cut and rolled. 

 Plants in pots may be cleaned and got ready for housing 

 next month. Grass lawns from seed should be sown and 

 finished this month, and hedges and borders clipped. 



Climbing plants may be gone over, and untidy shoots 

 cut back or layered. Sow Turnips, Broad Beans, 

 Spinach, Endive, Lettuce, Carrot, and Beet. 



November. Plants that have stood out during the 

 summer should be placed in the glasshouse this month. 



Lilies, Cyclamen, Narcissus, and all spring flowering 

 bulbs may now be potted. Continue to sow annuals for 

 a late show. Manure-water should be discontinued, and 

 the houses closed just before the sun is off them, and 

 heavy shading removed. 



Datura and summer flowering shrubs may be pruned 

 back. Paths should be repaired, and the drainage 

 attended to. Sow Celery, Beet, and Peas. Continue to 

 plant Potatoes. 



December. Paths and lawns should be swept and 

 rolled, and borders raked, and things kept neat and tidy. 



Large Fan Palms in windy gardens should have 

 their leaves tied up, and trees should be staked and 

 protected from the wind. Asparagus beds should be 

 made at the end of the month. Plant Potatoes, sow 

 Peas ; Asparagus also may be sown in pots. 



The temperature of glasshouses should be looked 

 to by closing them about 2 p.m. in the afternoon, and no 

 moisture should be allowed to remain on the foliage. 



