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may now be slightly top-dressed with a light rich soil. 

 Destroy w^asps, earwigs, and slugs. 



3. — Floiuers. 



Carnations and pinks, which have been struck from 

 pipings or layers, may be planted out, if rooted, either in 

 l)ots or in the open ground. Plant bulbs : monthly roses 

 may now be increased by cuttings, and other roses and 

 sweet-briar by Jayers. If old plants of roses are cut down 

 to an inch from the ground, they will sometimes send up 

 shoots, which may blow towards Christmas if kept in- 

 doors, or otherwise sheltered, and even in the open ground 

 if the season be mild. Sow tall larkspurs, Adonis, and 

 other hardy annuals, to stand the winter. 



X.-OCTOBER. 



Moisture and cold now increase rapidly ; and cold 

 nights, not unusually frosty, particularly near London, 

 about the tenth, announce the approach of winter. 



1. — Kitchen Garden. 

 Peas and mazagan beans, for an early crop, may be 

 sown in an exposed (not a sheltered) situation, to render 

 them hardy, and more capable of enduring severe weather 

 in the winter ; but they are often destroyed when sown 

 at this season, if they are not amply protected through 

 the winter months. Horse-radish may now be planted, 

 and also lettuce and endive, as directed last month, while 

 full-grown plants may be tied up to blanch. Earth up 

 celery in dry weather, and hoe Savoys, leeks, &c. Trans- 

 plant the cabbages of the August sowing, and any other 

 greens the planting of which has been neglected last 

 month. Cut off the tops of parsley to make it sprout 

 new leaves, and when the weather is very severe, protect 

 them with straw or other light and dry material. 



^.—Fruits, 



Plant cuttings of gooseberry, currant, &c., and the old 

 trees, as well as most other fruit trees, may be pruned 

 when the leaves fall, though perhaps it is better to defer 

 this operation till the month of January ; young trees 

 may also be transplanted, taking care to water them if 

 the weather be dry. 



