OCTOBER. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



This month is a proper time for planting and lay- 

 ing trees and shrubs in general, also for transplant- 

 ing from nursery and seedling beds — for sowing- 

 fruit stones — for propagating by suckers — for sow- 

 ing seeds of hardy shrubs — for pruning^ — for sowing- 

 berries to raise plants for hedges — for planting and 

 clipping hedges and edgings. Mow grass walks — 

 Toll gravel walks, and trim evergreens, — In plan- 

 ting trees and shrubs, always open a space wide 

 and deep enough to admit the roots readily loos- 

 ening the bottom of the hole — prune off long strag- 

 gling and bruised roots, and trim the heads of the 

 plants, then place them upright, and in filling up 

 the. hole shake the tree or plant gently, that the 

 earth may cl6se well to the roots — afterwards tread 

 down the earth and water it. Delicate shrubs should 

 be taken up with a ball of earth round the roota^ 

 and so planted and watered. Such as require si^ 

 port must be tied to a stake. 



NOVEMBER- 



ENDIVE. 



Take full growing plants, in dry weather, and tie 

 Ihe leaves together, when quite dry, with a twig • 

 in a warm, dry situation, exposed to the sug, ihrow 

 up earth into a ridge two feet high and three feet- 

 broad, the sides steep, that the rain may run off — 

 put che plants into the sunny side of the ridg , nearly 

 up to the top of the leaves, and the plants wiLi blanch 

 withoat rolling. In frosty weather cover the ridges 

 With litter. 



