Sept.] THE CULINARY GARDEIf. 2So 



they be tlioroughly dried, and then stored away in any well 

 aired loft, barn, 8cc. If they be here spread thickly, they 

 must still be turned occasionally ; or they may be strung up by 

 the tails, or hung in nets. If it be not intended that the 

 onions should be strung, the better plan then is, before they 

 are housed, to deprive them of the tails and outer husks, 

 especially the latter, the greater part of which comes oflf by 

 the simple process of rubbing. 



TRANSPLANTING LETTUCES. 



About the close of this month the different sorts of lettuces, 

 the seed of which was sown about the middle or the latter end 

 of August, and which were intended for the service of the en- 

 suing spring, should be planted out into the borders, where 

 they are to remain for use. 



A warm border, under a southern wall or fence, should be 

 prepared for them, and in digging the ground, the border 

 should be laid in a sloping direction towards the sun, and its 

 surface afterwards smoothly raked. Some of the best plants 

 must then be chosen from the seed-bed, pulling off all decayed 

 and broken leaves, and giving a partial trimming to the ex- 

 tremities of the roots, place them in longitudinal rows about 

 live or six inches distant from each other, allowing nearly the 

 same space between the rows. 



If they survive the winter, one half of them may be thinned 

 out regula'-ly in the spring, and transplanted into a more open 

 situation, leaving the remainder in the border to cabbage early. 



If lettuce-seed were not sown in the month of August for 

 the above })urpose, it should not now be longer deferred ; the 

 iirst week of this month will be sufficiently early, provided the 

 situation be warm and sheltered. 



LETTUCES FOR WINTER USE. 



Towartls the latter part of the month, the lettuces required 

 lor winter use should be planted in beds in the di'iest part of 

 the garden, and well exposed to the sun ; the beds should be 

 m every respect of the size of a cucumber or melon-frame. 



