202 GARDEN PROFITS 



is being overlooked by the vast majority of subur- 

 ban gardeners. Make some arrangement for getting 

 the street sweepings from your block or at least 

 in front of your house. In a few months you will 

 have much valuable manure, while the dust that 

 will be included will not be at all undesirable. 



Putting the Fruits to Sleep. We cease cultivating 

 around the bush fruits and trees about this time 

 so that they will mature their wood and not remain 

 in a growing and comparatively tender state into 

 late autumn. In large orchards the practice is to 

 sow a cover crop of rye, or clover and plow it under 

 the next spring. If you can dig such a crop well 

 under, it will be a good thing for the dwarfs. I 

 should expect, however, that you would do better 

 to mulch lightly with manure, to keep down the 

 weeds. A heavier mulch added in October will 

 protect the trees over winter. 



SEPTEMBER 



I would have no one get the idea that a garden, 

 no matter how small, is a lazy man's place. To 

 be exact, is there any place where a lazy man 

 gets the best of things? But as September grows 

 older, the gardener, who has put his heart and energy 

 into his work all the season, can really begin to 

 take things more easily. Enough cultivating after 

 rains, to keep the soil loose, will become merely a 

 pastime, but the fight with weeds and bugs will 

 have been about won (or lost?) by now, and very 

 little sowing will need your attention. 



Plan Improvements. Go around and visit neigh- 



