Sept.] THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. 477 
days, particularly in this month, makes a greater odds in crops, 
than most people could imagine would be consequent on the differ- 
ence of as many weeks. 
I am not an advocate for sowing seeds on a particular day of the 
week, or month, nor in the full or wane of the moon, nor when the 
wind blows from the east, west, or any particular point of the com- 
pass; these ridiculous and superstitious notions, have been long 
since deservedly banished out of the well informed world; but in 
this month, above all others in the year, there is an absolute neces- 
sity of sowing certain crops, within a few days of particular pe- 
riods, in order to ensure the best possible success; so that the 
plants may not become too strong before winter, and consequently, 
be subject to start to seed early in spring, previously to their attain- 
ing due perfection, nor be too weakly to endure the severities of the 
ensuing winter. 
Spinach. 
.Hoe and clean your advancing crops of spinach, and let the plants 
be thinned out to proper distances in order to afford sufficient room 
for the production of large succulent leaves. 
In- the first week of this month prepare some good dry ground, 
for a full crop of spinach, for winter and spring use. In the eas- 
tern states, particularly, this work should not be delayed later, nor 
indeed in the middle states if it can be well avoided; but in a favour- 
able season and a warm soil and exposure, it may succeed very 
well, in the middle states, if sown so late as the fifteenth or even 
the twentieth of the month; the more to the southward, the later it 
may be sown. 
The best sort to endure cold is the prickly seeded kind, which 
is what most people sow at this season, its being much hardier than 
the round seeded sort; of this there are two or three varieties, dif- 
fering only in the size of their leaves; but the largest and most pro- 
fitable sort is, what gardeners call the burdock-spinach. A thin sprink- 
ling of the brown Dutch, Egyptian cos, and hardy cabbage lettuces 
may be sown among the spinach, and if the winter is any way fa- 
vourable you may have some good plants from these to transplant 
early in spring for heading. A few of the early short-top salmon, 
and white turnep-rooted radishes may also be sown among the spi- 
nach, for use in October and November. Sow the seed thinly in 
drills about eight inches distant from one another, or broad-cast, 
and tread it in, then rake the ground effectually so as to cover the 
seed well; or if it be cultivated on a large scale, it may be harrowed 
in with a light harrow, wrong end foremost. 
When the plants are up and have got leaves an inch broad, or a 
little better, they must be thinned, either by hand or hoe, to three or 
four inches asunder, and the weeds effectually cleared away from 
among them; by this treatment the plants will get stocky, gather 
strength, and be the better able to stand the winter frosts. 
