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potatoes, which should be completed before the end 

 of the month. The fruit-vines will require care, or 

 the worm will take them. 



Arrowroot. — This is the best month for planting 

 it. It does well planted between the Irish potatoes 

 in good red soil. 



Irish potatoes. — Mould and clean them. Begin to 

 get the barrels ready to put them in for shipping. 



Onions. — Clean and loosen them for the last time ; 

 pull up any corn that may have been planted through 

 them, as any that shades them will keep them from 

 heading. The baskets must be soon got in readiness 

 for them. 



Sweet potatoes. — Trench into the ground vegetable 

 manure, such as sage-bush, cedar-brush, or seaweed 

 — the latter is the best; you must finish planting 

 them this month. 



Turnips. — A few white globe or red-top can be 

 sown in waste land, and will yield a good crop if the 

 weather is favourable. 



Fruit vines. — Cucumbers and melons can now be 

 planted, if not already planted. Those that are 

 growing must be freed from weeds, and a little soot 

 or ashes strewn around them. 



Tomatoes. — Keep plenty of sage-bushes under the 

 vines as they run. Let the sun get to them as much 



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