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THE GARDENER. 



[AUG. 



§ucceeding crops. When the stalks are pulled out of 

 the earth in their due time, the most naturally tena- 

 cious land is found to be considerably loosened, throug-h 

 the agency of their powerful roots.* Except as chan- 

 nels for carrying off the superfluous moisture of a re- 

 tentive soil, moulding up cabbages in a sheltered posi- 

 tion is really useless ; it is on the deep and thorough 

 loosening of the soil about their roots that their suc- 

 cess, as far as mere labour is concerned, depends ; 

 laying up a mass of earth to the stem cannot tend to 

 the nutriment of the plant, though it may assist to 

 support a weakly stem shaken by the wind. If the 

 weather be dry, give two waterings to the transplanted 

 cabbages. Plant celery ; tie up lettuces and endive 

 for blanching; plant out lettuces fourteen inches every 

 way for spring, and sow for coleworts in spring, and 

 execute whatever was omitted last month, or may be 

 properly done in preparation for the next. 



AIJGIJST. 



Stove, Greenhouse, Sfc. — Water more sparingly, 

 and only in the morning. Remove the sashes from 

 the early peach-house, to admit free air and natural 

 moisture to the buds, which will be serviceable to 

 them for the following season, and as a dry atmo- 

 sphere is now necessary for ripening the wood of the 

 stove plants, on which their future flowering and fruit- 

 mg so much depends, you had better remove those 

 exotics that can bear the shifting to the early grape- 

 house, where they can have air and light in abun- 

 dance. Do not, however, put any plants which require 

 regular watering into houses in which are ripening 

 grapes, for these would be injured in their flavour by 

 any degree of moisture around them. 



Frames and Pits. — Do not water melons whea 



• See Gardeners' Chron, 



