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WoEK FOR October. 



Sow all kinds of European seeds, which will 

 thrive in this latitude — tomatoes, carrots, turnips, 

 beets, cabbage, lettuce, and salad, marrowfat peas, 

 French beans, Lima beans, onions, leeks, garlic, 

 celery, thyme, and pot-herbs, parsley, oats, rape, 

 vetches, lucerne, mangel-wurtzel, buckwheat, millet, 

 broom corn. Plant onion bulbs for seed, cabbage 

 slips, aloes, Irish potatoes of Bermuda seed, seedlings 

 of all kinds which require transplanting, trees of 

 every kind, pond grass from cuttings where meadows 

 are to be formed, pmnpkin sHps, cuttings of the 

 oleander and the tamarisk, and of all trees which 

 grow from cuttings. The shores of the Bermuda 

 islands should be belted with the tamarisk for shelter. 

 Collect native grasses, grasses of all kinds as they 

 ripen. White grass, now everywhere ripening, , 

 should be carefully saved to be resown on tilled 

 ground in the spring. Plant sweet potato slips in 

 sheltered places for stock. 



Trees, ^c. — Prune and train grape vines, peach, 

 and other fruit-trees ; open the soil around the root, 

 and manures. 



Remarhs. — Peas and beans should be planted 

 three feet apart in the rows; the Windsor beans 



