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HOCKINGS' GARDEN MANUAL. 



SEPTEMBER. 



Kitchen Garden —All vacant land should be 

 trenched, and left to mellow down by exposure to 

 sun and air. Take every opportunity to collect 

 manure of all sorts, to be thrown into well-puddled 

 tanks to rot down for use in autumn and winter; 

 weeds and green refuse of every description, with the 

 drainage of the stable, &c, should be carefully secured 

 in covered tanks. Manure for use in the garden 

 during summer should be in the liquid form. Sow all 

 newly-dug beds with salt, as directed last month. 

 See that the crops are not crowded and are kept 

 clean. Sow a few peas on a cool spot. Sow English 

 and French beans, parsley, beet, capsicum and chilli, 

 cardoons, mustard and cress, lettuce, endive, egg-plant, 

 okra, Cape gooseberry, radish, rhubarb, round spinach, 

 tomato, tobacco, cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, vege- 

 table marrows, carrots, parsnips, &c. Transplant 

 cabbage, esch allots, cauliflowers, &c. for succession. 

 Water asparagus beds in dry weather. Plant out 

 Jerusalem artichokes, rhubarb, herbs, seakale, aspara- 

 gus, ginger, earth-nuts, &c. Sow rosella seed in 

 sheltered early positions. 



Orchard. — Recently-transplanted trees will require 

 careful attention, being mulched and protected until 

 they are established, giving water in dry weather. 

 Orange trees may be transplanted in calm cloudy 

 weather, but only those which are in a state of rest ; 

 they should on no account be disturbed if budding 

 out with young shoots ; and ample protection, mulch- 

 ing, and a little sprinkling of water overhead, with a 

 fine rose watering-pot or a syringe every afternoon in 

 dry weather will greatly assist them. Mulch fruit 

 trees which appear to suffer from dry weather, to the 

 circuit of their foliage. Grape vines should be gone 

 over every week to remove all suckers and other 

 shoots nearer than one foot to the ground. All super- 



