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THE FLOEAL WOELD AIS'D GAEDEN GUIDE. 
the soil has lost the greater part of its acquired warmth by radiation 
theD, only to be again obtained from the returning sun in spring. 
Plants removed in spring are in conditions somewhat analogous to 
those transplanted in autumn. Vegetation not being dormant, 
their roots are immediately formed, and the plant is not materially 
checked. The great drawbacks to spring planting are the daily 
increasing power of the sun and the periods of dry weather which 
are frequently experienced at that season. Where plants are coarse 
rooted and have to be carried a long distance, spring planting 
becomes hazardous, and great care will be required in its execution 
if attempted then. 
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REMINDERS FOR GARDEN WORK IN OCTOBER. 
URICULAS must now be considered in their winter abode, and be 
placed on their winter allowance. Plenty of air in mild weather, 
very little water, and no violent cutting winds. 
Chrysanthemums may be removed to the house for blooming, 
having stood out all the weather they will flower fine and dwarf. 
Perennials not parted last month may be divided now. 
Tulips.— C ommence planting out beds and finish all offsets; prepare also 
the best bed, by putting three inches of cow-dung at the bottom, and returning 
all the soil to the bed. 
Eiennials may be planted where they are to remain ; but the borders should 
be loosened, and the clumps well forked to clean them, and to get them ready to 
receive anything that may be planted. 
Dahlias have done their work for shows, and when their flowers are not 
wanted they may be lifted, so as to take no more nourishment from the ground, 
but must be covered with earth a few days, lest the frost should reach them. 
Fhuit Trees and Bushes. -^Raspberry canes, etc., may be moved in general 
from the end of the present month to the period that they begin to swell their 
buds ; so, also, may the pruning be commenced. In pruning gooseberries and 
currants, the side branches should be cut pretty close, to form spurs, and the 
main branches should not be sufficiently numerous to be in each other’s way. 
These bushes do best in strong rich land, and it should be trenched eighteen 
inches deep before they are planted. 
Cabbages. — T he August sown should be planted out for spring use twice as 
thickly as they are wanted, that when every other one is drawn for greens during 
the winter, the others may be left to form cabbages. The weakest may be left in 
the seed-bed, or be pricked out three inches apart, for future planting. 
Lettuces. — Plant out in warm situations. 
Carrots and Parsnips, full grown, may be taken up for storing. 
Celery, earth as usual. 
Hoeing between crops, weeding, clearing paths, digging vacant spaces, and 
leaving them in ridges or rough dung, are sell-evident duties ; so also is the 
destruction of all kinds of vermin. 
