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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



[Oct, 



If any caDbage-plants still remain on the seed-bed, remove 

 them into nursery-beds about the beginning of the month, in 

 order that they may gain sufficient strength to endure the en- 

 suing frosts. 



WINTER SPINACH. 



Tf, at this season, the spinach-beds be not kept exceedingly 

 free from weeds, they will soon outgrow the plants and totally 

 choak their growth. The better plan at this season is to clean 

 them by the hand, because they are now principally covered 

 with running weeds, such as chick-weed, &c. 



If the spinach were omitted to be thinned out last month, 

 it should be done, as soon as possible, the beginning of the 

 present, always clearing away the worst of the plants, and 

 leaving the remainder about five inches apart. 



EARTHING UP BROCCOLI AND BRUSSELS-SPROUTS. 



The crops of broccoli should now be cleared from weeds ; 

 and finally moulded up for winter about the middle or latter 

 end of the month ; a dry day should be chosen for the opera- 

 tion. The crops of Brussels-sprouts may be treated in the 

 same manner. 



DRESSING ASPARAGUS BEDS. 



Some time in this month cut down the stalks of asparagus 

 and dress the beds. The stalks should be cut down quite 

 close to the surface of the beds, after which the weeds should 

 be hoed clean away, and drawn into the alleys. Having then 

 stretched a line, mark out the alleys with a spade about twenty 

 inches or two feet wide, according to the original width which 

 was allowed them. 



Then proceed to dig the alleys about a spade deep, spread- 

 ing the greater part of the earth over the beds in a neat and 

 regular manner ; and accordingly as you dig the alleys, bury 

 the weeds regularly in the bottom of the trench, covering them 

 with a sufficient quantity of earth. The edges of the beds 



