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when at any time you are planting the cabbage tribe, 

 pare off the knobs which you will occasionally find on 

 the roots, which contain a destructive grub : trans- 

 plant lettuces in rows ten inches apart, and eight 

 inches from each other in the row, in warm loose earth. 

 Take up onions, and dry them well in the sun. Sow 

 cauliflower seed — which will be less likely to run than 

 that sown earlier — radishes, spinach, cresses, mustard 

 (for salading), and successions of chervil, in close and 

 shallow drills, to be thinned out ; earth celery — thin 

 turnips, spinach, &c. — tie up lettuces and endive to 

 blanch — expose the fruit of- the tomato to the sun, by 

 thinning the leaves. 



Evergreens. — Plant evergreens at the end of the 

 month, and deciduous trees later; stake them securely, 

 and water copiously. Plant slips and cuttings of 

 flowering shrubs when the wood is ripe — trench the 

 ground for them if you can. 



OCTOBER. 



8tove^ Greenhouse^ Sfc. — Keep regular heat, say 

 from 65° to 75°, to ripen the stove plants ; but in the 

 conservatory the temperature should not exceed 45° 

 now, or in any of the winter months. Do not occupy 

 the greenhouse or conservatory (supposing that you 

 have a large stock of plants) with ordinary plants with 

 thick foliage that are natives of temperate climates, as 

 they may pass the winter very securely in pits or frames. 

 Inure the plants which you bring in very gradually 

 to close confinement. When arranging them in the 

 greenhouse or the common frames, place them as 

 much as possible according to their genera, but at 

 the same time with a due attention to their relative 

 sizes; because, since plants of the same family generally 

 require similar treatment as to air, light, watering, and 

 dressing, it is convenient to have in the same range, 

 or near each other in some way, the homogeneoua 



