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DIClIOyARY OF SEASONABLE GARDEN WORK. 



Chicory. — Dig what is wanted for salad, and store it 

 in sand in a dry cellar. 



Cider for vinegar may now be made at any time when 

 most convenient. If put into an old vinegar-barrel and 

 kept in a warm room, it will soon turn into strong vine- 

 gar. 



Currants. — Make cuttings and plant them in rows 

 three feet apart and two inches apart in the row. Set 

 them firmly so that the top eye will be just even with the 

 surface. Mulch the rows with leaves or litter afterward. 



Endii'e. — Blanch by gathering up the leaves and 

 tying them lightly at the tips. 



General Garden Management . — The only planting 

 that can be done in open ground at this time is restricted 

 to rhubarb, asparagus, and perhaps onion-sets. Begin 

 to think about next year's planting, and to make arrange- 

 ments for the manure that will be needed. Often you 

 can purchase it now to good advantage, and haul it while 

 the roads are yet good. Clean up and plow the ground 

 when the crops are harvested. 



Gooseberries. — Make and plant cuttings as directed 

 for currants. 



Grapes. — Rot seems to have taken a large part of this 

 season's crop. On account of the general scarcity of 

 fruits, with care in marketing, according to the hints 

 given last month, the grape-grower may expect fair 

 prices. All thin-skinned sorts, like Concord and Worden, 

 should be sent to market as soon as ripe 



Grapes Under Glass. — After the fruit has ripened, 

 withhold water for a while. Later, some dressings of 

 bone and potash applied to the borders will be useful. 

 Prune the vines when the crop is taken off, 



Lemons and Oranges Under Glass. — Keep the trees 

 clean by the free use of soap-suds. Apply manure-water 

 occasionally. 



Lettuce. — Plants to be wintered over should be set 

 in frames like cabbage-plants. 



Lettuce Under Glass. — Set out plants started in Au- 

 gust for the early crop, giving each plant six or seven 

 inches space each way. There is no need of putting on 

 sashes, except in rough weather. Mulch the ground be- 

 tween the plants with tobacco-stems. This is an easy 

 and sure way of keeping off greenfly. 



Onions. — Plant sets of Extra Early Pearl, or some 

 other hardy kind, in the same fashion as in early spring. 



They are likely to winter well, and will give an early 

 crop of fine bunching onions. For the north, fall sow- 

 ing of onion-seed cannot be recommended. 



Orcl/ards. — Fertilizers, especially ashes, bone-meal, 

 and potash salts, may now be applied to fruit-trees and 

 plants of small fruits. Remove dead and diseased limbs 

 from all trees. Young peach trees should have one-third 

 of the new growth removed. After fruit has been picked 

 gather up ladders and put the orchard to rights. 



Parsley. — Lift some plants and set them in a cold- 

 frame four or five inches apart, or in a box filled with 

 good soil, and place in a light cellar or under a shed. 



Pears. — Pick the winter sorts just before there is dan- 

 ger from freezing. Put them in a cool dark place, where 

 they will neither mold nor shrivel. To hasten ripening, 

 they can be brought into a warm room as wanted. 



Khubarb. — If plants are to be set or replanted this 

 fall, enrich the ground with a superabundance of fine 

 old stable-manure, and give each plant a few feet of 

 space each way. In order to have fresh pie-plant in 

 winter, dig up some of the roots and plant them in good 

 soil in a barrel placed in the cellar. 



Rhubarb Under Glass. — Dig up a quantity of roots 

 and store them in a convenient place, to be on hand when 

 wanted. 



Spinach. — Cultivate and hoe as needed. 



Squashes and Pumpkins should be gathered and 

 stored in a cool, dry place before the least frost can touch 

 them. 



Straiuberries. — At the south planting may yet be 

 done. For the north we prefer spring planting. 



Straivberries Under Glass. — When the pots become 

 well filled with roots, shift the young plants into 6-inch 

 pots and plunge them outdoors in sawdust or coal-ashes 

 until November. 



Sz^'cet-Potatoes. — Dig them when ripe after the first 

 frost. Cut off the vines, and turn the potatoes out with 

 a potato-fork or plow. Handle them carefully to pre- 

 vent bruising. Only sound, well-ripened roots are in 

 proper condition to be wintered over. 



Pools. — Gather up, paint and oil them, and put them 

 in safe winter-quarters. 



Purnips.—Keei> them free from weeds, and harvest 

 them before severe freezing weather. 



