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long, thickly pricked out into large pots, or under a hand-glass on gentle 

 heat, and shaded from hot sun, till they have struck, which will be seen 

 by their making growth : they will not be tit to pot till September. 



AUGUST. 



Kitchen Garden.— <Som; early cabbages in the first week, the last 

 sowing for the year. Red cabbages same time cauliflower for spring 

 and summer use, about the twenty-first, cress, hardy coss and cabbage 

 lettuces from about the twelfth to the thirtieth, to stand the winter, 

 prickly spinage for a principal winter crop about the same time. Turnips 

 last sowing, Welsh onions first week in the month, Lisbon, Strasburg, 

 and Reading, from the middle to the end of the month. Radishes, 

 chervil, Spanish turnip radishes, carrots to pull early in the spring, corn 

 salad, plant endive in sheltered spots ; planting for winter must not now 

 be delayed, put out as fast as possible, if not enough planted, savoys, 

 cabbages, broccoli, coleworts, celery, &c. Hoe, and earth up where 

 necessary, weed, and thin young crops, water and shade where requisite. 

 Gather seeds as they ripen, dry and store them, dry and house onions, 

 garlic, shalots 3 dry herbs as they flower. Dig up, dry, and put by 

 mushroom spawn. 



Fruit Garden. — Finish buddings and loosen the bandages round 

 buds, put in earlier, or take them entirely off, plant out strawberries that 

 struck in the fore part of the spring ; keep all the wall-trees in neat trim ; 

 early in the month wattle round with willow or hurdle rods some of the 

 best currant-bushes, where none of the fruit has been fingered, and mat 

 them over, or, what is better, cover them with canvass or bunting ; the 

 crop may with care be preserved till October. 



Flower Garden. — Continue to take up, dry and store, bulbous and 

 other flower roots, as the leaves decay. General work as last month. 

 Gather seeds of shrubs and flowers. Sow in pots for succession to blow 

 in the winter. Plant autumnal bulbs: plant, where to remain, pipings 

 and layers, and seedhngs of hardy plants 5 transplant auriculas and 

 their like. Shift succulent plants in pots. 



Forcing Ground. — The greatest part of the labour here is now over 

 for the year. Attend to what you have left, water and thin as required ; 

 make mushroom beds, put by and repair lights and frames as they fall 

 into disuse ; or place them to forward and protect wall-fruit. 



Green-House. — ^The same management as last month and the pre- 

 vious, pot and shift towards the end of the month. Pot all your young 

 stock, raised from seed, cuttings or layers. 



