396 CALENDAR.—OCTOBER. 
sies, and putting them into a nursery-bed for the winter. 
Pot chrysanthemum layers by the end of the month. Keep 
all dahlias and tall herbaceous plants properly staked and 
tied up, as they are very liable to be broken by high winds 
at this season. The same attention must be given to the 
cleaning and dressing of this department as directed for 
the former months.. Plant evergreens; make layers, and 
put in-cuttings of most of the hard-wooded sorts of 
shrubby plants, about the middle and end of the month, as 
many will sueceed better at that season than if these opera- 
tions were delayed to a later period. 
OCTOBER. 
Kitchen Garden.—Sow small salads and radishes in the 
first week ; Mazagan and Marshall’s dwarf beans and early 
frame peas (Warwick variety) in the last week. If the 
winter prove mild, they will be somewhat earlier than those 
sown next month or in January. Prepare and make up 
maushroom-beds. 
Plant early cabbages in close rows for spring use. A bed 
of cauliflowers in the last week, to receive the protection 
of a three-light frame; or, at any rate, plant cauliflower at 
the bottom of a high wall or hedge ina sheltered situation. 
Earth up celery and cardoons, 
Store potatoes, beet, salsify, scorzonera, skirret, carrots, 
parsnips, by the end of the month. 
Fruit Garden.—Such fruit trees as have dropped thetr 
leaves may be transplanted. Protect fig-trees, if the 
weather prove frosty, as soon as they have cast their leaves. 
Cover late crops of grapes on hot walls with woolen nets or 
mats, to prevent injury from frost. Store and lay up very 
carefully during the month all sorts of apples and pears, 
