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Farm, — Winter commences on the 24th of this 

 month. The arrowroot rills ont very rapidly after the 

 frost checks the growth of the top. Sweet potatoes, 

 ginger, yams, &c, should be dug. Sow oats, lucerne, 

 rye-grass, vetches, prairie-grass, &c, &c. Prepare 

 land in warm situations for planting and sowing next 

 month with potatoes and maize. 



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Kitchen Gcurden. — Asparagus roots may now be 

 planted as directed. Sow cauliflower, carrot main 

 crop, beans, lettuce, endive, radish, spinach, &c. In 

 sowing seeds after rain, see that the land does not 

 clog, or it will be very injurious to move it about. 

 The soil should never be walked over, or disturbed by 

 sowing or digging the crops, until it is sufficiently dry 

 to be friable. Plant out onions and eschallots. The 

 soil for onions being necessarily rich, the crop is often 

 in danger of being smothered by weeds in the seed 

 bed. This may be guarded against to a considerable 

 extent when sown in drills, by lightly raking over the 

 bed a few days after it is sown • this will destroy a 

 vast number of weeds, which, being of rapid growth, 

 will be up some days before the onions have made a 

 start. This should not be done except in very fine 

 weather. If rain falls upon recently raked-land, the 

 surface runs into one, and the whole cakes over. 

 Hoe among the crops continually in fine weather, 

 while the weeds are small, or a few days' rain will 

 give them such advantage as to permanently injure 

 the crops. Foul land harbors slugs, grasshoppers, and 

 other garden pests. 



Orchard. — This is a good time to brush over the 

 stems of all fruit trees and vines with a strong pre- 

 paration of Gishurst Compound, as a cure and pre- 

 ventive of disease ; four ounces of the compound 



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