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SEPTEMBER 



Frames. Set in lettuce started in August. Sow 

 radishes and successive crop of lettuce. Cooler 

 weather begins to tell on late-planted crops. Give 

 cabbage, cauliflower, etc., deeper cultivation. ''Han- 

 dle" celery wanted for early use (page 122). 



Harvest and store onions (page 178). Get squash 

 under cover before frost. From the 1 5th to 25th 

 sow spinach, onions, borecole for wintering over. 

 Sow down thickly to rye all plots as fast as cleared 

 of summer crops ; or plow heavy land in ridges. 

 Attend to draining. 



Fruit. Trees may be set. Procure barrels for 

 storing fruit in winter. At harvest time it is often 

 impossible to get them at any price. 



OCTOBER 



Get ready for winter. Blanch rest of endive. 

 Bank celery, to be used before Christmas, where it 

 is. Gather tomatoes, melons, etc., to keep as long 

 as possible. Keep especially clean and well culti- 

 vated all crops to be wintered over. Late in the 

 month store cabbage and cauliflower ; also beets, car- 

 rots, and other root crops. Get boxes, barrels, bins, 

 sand or sphagnum moss ready beforehand, to save 

 time in packing. 



Clean the garden; store poles, etc., worth keeping 



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