A CALENDAR 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Look to the Lettuce seedlings and 

 plant out any that are large enough. It is well to get them out as 

 soon as they are ready, so that they may be established before 

 winter. 



Flower Garden. — Look to the Brompton Stocks which were 

 planted out last month, and if they are becoming at all soft and 

 lanky lift and re-plant them, thus checking over-rapid growth to 

 enable them to stand the winter. 



SEPTEMBER 14 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Plant some Ixia and Sparaxis bulbs 

 in pots filled with good sandy soil. They will do well in a frame and 

 need no coddling, but plenty of air. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — A final sowing of Lettuce seed may 

 still be made in the open if a hardy variety be chosen, such as Bath 

 Cos. Make a sowing to-day in well-dug but unmanured ground. 



Flower Garden. — Give attention to the Lilies of the Valley. See 

 that the bed is in proper condition and give it a top-dressing of well- 

 rotted manure. 



SEPTEMBER 15 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Look to those Pelargoniums which 

 were put out of doors a few days ago, and if the season's wood has 

 become tinged with brown cut the plants down to within three or 

 four eyes of the old wood, and place in a cold frame. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Lift some of the main crop of 

 Potatoes, especially if the weather be favourable. 



Flower Garden. — Take a general look round the flower garden 

 and see what arrangements are best for the further planting of spring- 

 flowering bulbs. Cut down the stems of all perennials which have 

 ceased to flower. 



SEPTEMBER 16 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Do not forget to attend to the remain- 

 ing Pelargoniums, which need to be turned out of doors to ripen 

 their wood in the sun. [See 8th inst.) 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — ^New plantations of Asparagus 

 may suitably be made at this season. If the present bed be in- 

 sufficient, begin the preparation of a new one to-day. 



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