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marketable. Lima beans will be ready for use the latter part 

 of the month. 



Keep weeds from going to seed. 



Sow lettuce for growing in hotbeds or cold frames for 

 Thanksgiving. 



September. — The cool nights of this month are especially 

 favorable to such crops as celery, cabbage and cauliflower, and 

 they should be carefully cultivated. 



Melons, winter squash and celery are now marketable. 



Handle celery; i. e., partially earth up around it. 



First frosts may new be expected by the fifteenth of the 

 month, and the half-ripened tomatoes should be picked and al- 

 lowed to ripen in some shady place. Winter squash should be 

 gathered before it is at all injured by frost. 



Dig potatoes. 



Transplant lettuce to hotbeds or cold frames. Plant out 

 hardy perennial onions for bunching in the early spring. 



October. — Winter celery should be banked up to protect it 

 from severe frosts, and on severe nights it should be covered 

 with straw or hay for protection. It should all be stored away 

 by the end of the month unless plenty of protection is provided 

 in the shape of straw, in which case it is safe to leave It out un- 

 til the 10th of November. Such crops will not stand with im- 

 munity as much frost in the western states as in the eastern 

 states. Pull and store cabbage, dig beets, carrots, parsnips, sal- 

 sify and potatoes and store in pits or put at once into the cellar. 

 Some parsnips and salsify may be left on high land to be dug in 

 the spring. Plant out rhubarb roots. 



Attend to fall plowing and leave in ridges any very heavy 

 land that is needed for early spring use. 



November. — In the more northern states this month generally 

 closes up the work of the season. All the crops should be gath- 

 ered in the early part of the month. 



Clean up the garden, frames and hotbeds and get them 

 ready for spring work. 



The lettuce sown in August and transplanted to hotbeds or 

 cold frames should be flt to market this month. 



Market all the vegetables on hand that will bring a fair 



