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planting J shalots, garlic on dry ground, strawberries, bulbs, herbs, 

 clear off decayed leaves, hoe and weed, get all as clean upas possible ; 



j finish taking up and housing potatoes, the same of carrots, salsafy, 

 scorzenera, shelter seedling cauliflowers from frost, or they will be black 

 shanked. Break in the leaves of the late cauliflower that show fruit, to 

 cover them from frost; early white brocoli the same, cut down asparagus 

 stalks, trench vacant ground, manure. Get all your planting close up. 



Fruit Garden, — Transplant young fruit-trees ; plant stocks of all 

 kinds as soon as the sap is down. Apples and pears, and all winter- 



I keeping fruit, must not be delayed gathering beyond this month. Sow 

 cherry-stones, take up layers of trees and shrubs of last year's laying 

 and plant them. 



I Flower Garden. — Very hardy flowers, such as larkspurs, may be 

 , sowed to stand the winter, and blossom early, plant hyacinths, tulips, 

 I anemones, ranunculuses, bulbous irises, &c. Finish separating and 



planting, carnation layers, &c. Put hyacinths, narcissuses, early tulips 

 ! and jonquils, in water-glasses. Plant cuttings of jasmine, laurel, cubas, 

 j honeysuckle, &c., preserve potted carnations from wet and frost, place 

 I them in a sunny situation, house or put under glass the mignonette in 

 j pots. Plants, deciduous trees and shrubs, herbaceous plants. 



Forcing Ground. — The directions for last month apply here ; attend 



to your mushroom beds. 



Green -House. — Water sparingly, give much air, move all in, 

 I arrange your plants and take care of them. 



NOVEMBER. 



Kitchen Garden. — Soiu early peas, leeks, beans, radishes, and early 

 horn carrots, on warm borders, salad on heat. Plant cabbage-stumps for 

 I seed, cauliflowers under hand-glasses and frames early in the month, 

 I lettuces under cover for winter use, endive, rhubarb in rows after 

 ; parting old roots 3 finish taking up potatoes early, or the frost may save 

 ; you the trouble 3 take up and store carrots, beets, some parsnips also, to 

 ' get at in frost. Thin lettuces sown last month in frames, sift fine dry 

 j mould among them to strengthen them, keep them dry, let them not 

 ; have the least shower, all depends on keeping them dry, yet keep the 

 lights off during the day, and tilt at night to give as much air as possible 

 unless hard frost. Give free air to cauliflowers in frames and glasses. 

 Examine onion and other stores. 



Fruit Garden. — Sow the fruit stones that have till now been kept 

 in sand ; cut old wood from raspberries, begin pruning. Plant wall 

 ^md other trees, dig among trees, plant stocks. 



