GARDENING CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER. 
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thered in quantity spread them thinly out in 
the fruit room. 
Strawberries. — Make new plantations on a 
deep and rich loamy soil, in rows thirty inches 
apart and eighteen inches in the row. Re- 
move all runners from the old plantations, 
and top dress with a rich soil of loam and 
decomposed dung. 
Vines. — Where these are growing upon 
flued walls it is well and safe to apply a little 
fire now, to hasten the ripening both of the 
wood and fruit. 
THE FORCING GARDEN. 
General Directions. — The present period 
nearly answers to winter in this department : 
keep the trees at rest. Clean out all the 
houses, frames, and pits which are emptied of 
fruit ; white-wash the flues and walls with 
hot lime, and top-dress and prune the early 
houses. Renew the hotbed linings as required. 
Upon the whole, considerably less water will 
be required now than formerly. 
Apricots. — Remove the ripening leaves, 
and keep the trees cool and clean. 
Cherries. — Those in pots must not have 
much water, and if they have been exposed 
they may be put under glass : keep the house 
always open except in heavy rains : pass the 
hand lightly up the shoots to clear off the 
dead leaves. 
Cucumbers. — Temperature from 60 to 90 
degrees. Renew the linings so as to keep up 
a brisk heat ; shut up about two o'clock p.m. ; 
the heat must be steady, and moist. The 
winter plants must be kept scrupulously 
clean and healthful, and are best trained on 
a trellis. Fruits reserved for seeds may be 
cut open, the seed slightly washed, and 
thoroughly dried. 
Figs. — Temperature from 60 to 80 degrees. 
Clean off the ripening foliage : put a few of 
the pots (which were very early) in readiness 
to be again placed in heat ; water as little as 
possible. 
Melons. — Temperature from 65 to 90 de- 
grees. Maintain a lively heat by means of lin- 
ings : water only in the mornings, and then 
sparingly : give air at night to the ripening 
fruit, and shut up the late crops early, with 
strong sun heat. 
Musas. — Temperature from 70 to 90 de- 
grees. Keep the atmosphere moist, excepting 
where the fruit is ripening. On those planted 
out two suckers may be allowed to remain at- 
tached to the parent, and some fresh soil 
should be laid about them, the old stem being 
cut away close to the ground. 
Mushrooms. — Temperature from 55 to 60 
degrees. When the heat of the prepared suc- 
cession bed has declined so as to be about milk- 
warm (it should never have been overheated 
previously) it may be spawned, by wrapping 
the pieces of spawn first in a little strawy dry 
litter, which will assist its running ; after a 
few days the covering of fresh loam to the 
thickness of two inches should be put on, and 
firmly beaten down. The beds in a bearing 
state are benefited by having the loose hay 
strewed over them renewed. 
Nectarines and Peaches. — Temperature 
from 55 to 75 degrees. The late houses must 
have air night and day ; and still more the 
early houses. Pass a broom gently up the 
branches of those whose foliage is ripe, so as 
to remove the leaves when they separate 
easily ; syringe a little with the clear liquor of 
soot, lime, and wood ashes mixed in water; non- 
attendance to trees in this stage ruins many. 
Pine Apples. — Temperature from 70 to 
90 degrees. Keep up a brisk heat : admit air 
at night, unless it is very windy and cold. In 
places where one house is made to grow 
the whole stock, put the ripening fruits at 
the warm end, those just started in the 
middle, and the young plants at the cold 
end. Shift those which require it. Pot 
the strong suckers ; use rough turfy loam, 
peat, and charcoal, and no manure ; give the 
latter in the liquid form, and apply it freely 
to those started into fruit — say once a week ; 
syringe freely. 
Strawberries. — Temperature from 55 to 75 
degrees. Those which are being prepared for 
forcing early in spring should be freed from 
all runners ; and they are amazingly benefited 
by being kept in a frame, to avoid the extreme 
wet to which they would otherwise be subject. 
Give water moderately, and admit plenty of 
air, by tilting up the lights. 
Vinery. — Temperature from 60 to 80 de- 
grees : withhold water, and give air plentifully. 
Remove decaying berries as soon as they are 
observed ; give a little fire heat with air at 
night. The young vines in pots must be 
ripened off ; bring them into a dry house and 
gradually withhold water. Prune the early 
houses ; and have the vines washed with a 
solution of tobacco, sulphur, and lime-water. 
FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. 
Sow hardy annuals as recommended in 
August, and do it early ; also such as polyan- 
thus, primrose, sweet William, Canterbury 
bell, &c. 
Plant and Transplant, perennials, bien- 
nials, and bulbs ; also evergreen and deciduous 
shrubs. Take up and put the finer campanulas 
and the more tender things into pots, to be 
afterwards removed to the frames. 
General Directions. — Continue to propa- 
gate where required. At the end of the 
month, a few of the best specimens of green- 
house plants should be taken up and potted. 
