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GARDENING CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Coriander is best sown in autumn ; give it 
an open situation, and rich fresh soil. 
Cress. — Select a rather sunny place to 
make a sowing at the end of the month. 
Dill. — Sow soon after the seeds are ripe, 
in a light soil. 
Endive. — Plant a few more out where they 
can receive slight protection in winter ; choose 
a dry day to tie up, or cover up, a few of the 
best for blanching, which must be attended 
to from time to time, so as to keep a succession 
fit for use. 
Serbs. — Almost all the sorts may be in- 
creased now, either by division of the roots or 
by seeds. Tie up the parts gathered for 
winter use in small bundles, hang them in a 
dry place ; some use an oven for drying ; and 
gather off the leaves, and keep them in tin 
canisters, which is an excellent plan, as it 
preserves the aroma of the herb. 
Lettuces. — Plant out at the foot of the 
walls, also in hand-lights ; where they are 
much required, planting out in a frame will be 
necessary. 
Onions. — Gather as soon as they stop 
growing, and lay in a dry place preparatory 
to storing them away : they may be kept 
either tied up in ropes, or spread on shelves 
or a dry wood floor, whichever is most con- 
venient. 
Parsley. — It is scarcely advisable to sow 
any more this season, but the early crops or 
part of them will be made more useful by 
being cut over, and made to spring anew. 
Potatoes when ripe must be taken up, 
carefully laying aside all the diseased ones, 
and spreading the whole out to dry ; after 
which remove them to the store-house, and 
spread them on the floor. Where young 
potatoes are wanted at Christmas, now is the 
time to plant such varieties as Chapman's 
kidney, in a slight heat, in small pots. 
Radishes must be sown on a slight hot-bed, 
and require plenty of air. 
Salads generally will require some slight 
artificial air ; a little hot dung and frames 
must be used at the end of the month. 
Spinach. — Thin out the plants, leaving 
them from six to nine inches apart ; another 
sowing may be made soon in a good situation. 
Tomatoes. — Cut away most of the young 
shoots, so as to expose the fruit to the sun ; 
and cut away also all very late fruit : ripen 
off the early ones by laying them in the stove 
or greenhouse, or in a close frame. 
Turnips may yet be sown in a very warm 
place, but do not depend much upon them : at- 
tend to the thinning and hoeing of the earlier 
sowings ; those that are too late for bulbing 
may be worth attention for their tops. 
Water Cress. — New beds may now be 
formed, and planted at six inches apart ; the 
old established beds should be dried off and 
cleaned, and all blanks filled up with vigorous 
young plants. 
THE FRUIT GARDEN. 
General Directions. — Look over and pick 
daily the ripening fruit of all the finer sorts. 
Finish the summer thinning, pruning, and 
nailing, having given all the light and sun 
attainable. Keep down vermin, such a3 
wasps, &c. ; allow the blemished fruit to 
remain close under the walls to entice them, 
and kill them when collected together ; pro- 
tect the finer fruit of such as peaches, by cover- 
ing with fine gauze. The fruit room requires 
close attention. Turn anew those fruit that 
were early gathered, and pick out all which 
indicate the smallest blemish ; lay the best 
carefully in a single tier on shelves, and keep 
the place dark. The inferior sorts may be 
laid thicker, but must at no time be suffered to 
heat ; and remember to use these first. If the 
fruit room is exposed to the sun, air must be 
given to prevent sweating, which is always 
injurious. Always handle choice fruit as if 
they were eggs ; and indeed fruit of all kinds 
as far as practicable. 
Apples. — When gathering the keeping 
sorts be sure they are ripe ; cut a fruit or two 
open, and if the pips are still white — not 
turning brown — they are not ready. 
Apricots. — Look over every morning, and 
pick the ripe ones ; there is no other method 
by which the fruit can be kept free from 
blemish. 
Cherries. — The morellos must be protected 
from birds, &c. Syringe the trees of the 
early sorts with clear water, in which soot 
and wood ashes have been steeped. 
Currants. — Those which are to be pre- 
served must be kept matted perfectly close, 
for if the least aperture is allowed, the birds 
may enter and injure them. 
Figs. — Gather in the morning : it may be 
well to cover the finest fruit with gauze, or 
cotton wadding. 
Filberts may now be gathered when dry 
and packed in hampers for keeping. 
Gooseberries. — Those which are matted up 
for preserving must be carefully covered 
again after being gathered from. 
Nectarines and Peaches. — Preserve from 
vermin, and hand pick the ripe fruit daily. If 
the walls are flued apply a little fire in the 
day time to ripen the wood. 
Pears are not so easily damaged as apples, 
but the keeping sorts must be gathered with 
equal care, and laid thinly on the shelves : 
look over the early sorts, and remove the 
blemished ones. 
Plums. — Pick those to be used for dessert 
just as they are thoroughly ripe ; when ga- 
