590 



SIFT EMBER. 



51CY. XX. 



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SEPTEMBER. 



Gardens "begin now to fail of their wonted 

 Beauty, and therefore dying flowers, all litter, and 

 nevery thing unfightly, admonifh the gardener to trim 

 his plants, and clean the ground frequently, that all 

 may be pretty if not gay. An attention of this fort, 

 ftirring the ground, and' raking it, will give an air of 

 frejhnefs and culture highly pleafing and creditable. 



MISCELLANEOUS WORK. 



See beginning of laft month, twelve firft articles. 

 Shrubs free from fuckers, dig about, &c. 111. 

 Prepare ground for planting trees and fhrubs, 105, 

 Turf, lay as a good time, beat, roll, and water. 

 Gather fruits as they ripen, and ftorethem well, 262. 

 Grapes, tie fine ripe bunches up in gauze or crape. 

 Figs, keep in clofe training to ripen the fruit, 15 1 . 

 Cucumbers cover on nights to prevent the fpot, 190. 

 Pickling cucmnbers, gather before they get fpotted. 

 , Melons carefully proteft from cold and wet, 200. 

 Cauliflowers, prick out, put fome on flight heat, 214. 

 Ditto, Michaelmas crop, if dry weather, water often. 

 Lettuces, prick out, at 4 or 5 inches, fouth border. 

 Herb-beds fhouldbe cleared and dreffed this month, 246, 

 Nafturtiums gather before ripe for pickling, 25 S. 

 -Onions, being dry and hard, take in, fort, &c. 25$. 

 Garlick, Jha/ots, and rocambole, tie up, and ftore, 221. 

 Seeds, fuch as are well dried, drefs and put up, 56, 59* 

 Means, late, top them as foon as in flower, 207* 



sow 



Spinach, turneps, Welch onions (thick) and endive, firft 

 week, for late fpringufe. Radilhes of all forts, but 



chiefly 



