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OCTOBER, 



SECT. XX, 



Li/us and other fcaly bulbous roots, plant foon, 287. 



Offsets from bulbs muff be planted immediately, 287. 



Beds for bulbous and tuberous roots, prepare, 293. 



Edgings of box, thriit, or pinks, plant, cut, or repair. 



Pots of flowers bring from fhady fituations to more 

 funny ones - r exotics, put in time under fome degree 

 of fhelter, according to their nature ; the fucculent 

 plants are impatient of wet, and cold, as alfo varie- 

 gated geraniums ; take them in foon ; but give plenty 

 of mild air* 



Minionelte in pots for winter, place under a fouth wall. 



NURSERY. 



Weed K ftir the foiL clean uf } and water, if dry weather. 



Dig about young trees, at the end of this, or the be- 

 ginning of next month, as directed, 79. 



Prepare ground for planting, next month. Stocks and 

 feedlings, and fowing feeds of trees and fhrubs, 71, 

 &c. Cherry Stones may now be fown. Evergreen feed- 

 lings ihould be planted out, laft week, and watered, 

 if a dry time, 72. 



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OCTOBER. 



This is the chief month of the year for planting 

 trees, fhrubs, &c. No part of it mould be loft, in 

 either working the ground well for the purpofe, or 

 putting in the plants without delay ; Early planting, 

 if the ground is fit, is of much confequence. EJculents 

 are to have their winter quarters provided them as foon 

 as poffible in the month, as at the end of it the weather 

 is often bad. 



Now the virtues of indujlry and perfeverance will 

 be tried to keep the grounds clean from falling leaves, 

 &c. The garden, however, ought yet to be a fource 



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