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Graveled walks—clean and roll f. m. 1. 
Hoe frequently to destroy weeds, pro¬ 
mote growth, and increase moisture. 
Insects—destroy by syringing, with whale 
oil soap, entrapping in bottles, gathering by 
hand, &c. 
Lilies—White, take up m. to 1.; Japan, 
stake and shade those ready to bloom. 
Pansies—sow seed for spring blooming. 
Perennials—in pots and elsewhere, wa¬ 
ter. 
Plants—which have finished blooming 
head back or cut down if annuals. 
Polyanthus and Ranunculus, sow f. to 
m. 
Roses—bud and layer ff., selecting cloudy 
weather for the budding. 
Seeds—gather as they ripen, keep pure. 
Ten Week Stock—sow f. to m. 
Tulips—and other bulbous roots which 
have completed their blooming season, take 
up ff. if not done, remove offsets; sow seed 
f. to m. 
Water in the evening during dry weath¬ 
er. 
Weed carefully f. m. 1. 
GREEN AND HOT HOUSE. 
Air freely every day. 
Annuals—sow for winter flowering f. to m. 
Azalias—keep shaded and syringe often. 
Bark Beds—stir and add to. 
Budding—finish this month. 
Callas—repot m. to 1. 
Camelias—repot f. to m., syringing freely. 
Inarching may still be done. 
Chrysanthemums—shift into blooming 
pots watering- with liquid manure ; pinch 
leaders to induce side shoots and a bushy 
habit. 
Cinerarias—those which have done 
blooming should have their tops cut off; 
repot and sow seed now for early blooming 
plants next year. 
Cuttings of succulent plants may be made 
ff., watering slips freely. 
Fumigate often to destroy the green fly 
and aphis. , 
Gloxinias which have done blooming may 
be allowed to dry off. 
Grapes—remove damaged fruit as it ap¬ 
pears, giving liquid manure to those begin¬ 
ning to ripen. Keep sashes open day and 
night to ripen the wood. 
Heliotropes—prepare for winter bloom¬ 
ing. 
Houses should now be looked to; cleanse 
thoroughly, paint and glaze if necessary, 
putting furnaces in order. 
Insects—search carefully for and destroy: 
see last month. Aphides and Red spiders 
may be destroyed by whale-oil soap. 
Layering may still be done ff. 
Oranges and lemons—continue to bud ff. 
Pelargoniums repot, and pot new cuttings 
as soon as rooted. ' 
Pines—complete shifting ; water freely, 
and shade till well established. 
Pots—clean moss from and pick off de¬ 
cayed leaves. 
Potting—complete this mostly f. to m. 
Pruning—cut back weak growing plants 
to induce bushy habits. 
Roses—make cuttings m. to 1. Repot and 
head back those intended for winter bloom¬ 
ing. 
Sow clarkia and coreopsis to flower dur¬ 
ing the winter. 
Suckers and offsets may still be made ff. 
Syringe often in the evening, and keep the 
floors damp to assist in maintaining a humid 
atmosphere. 
Verbenas—Petunias and Geraniums, may 
now be prepared for winter and early spring 
blooming. 
Water freely both in and out of the houses. 
ORCHARD AND NURSERY. 
Apples, pears and the stone fruits which 
fall prematurely from the effects of insects, 
should be gathered every day if not eaten 
by hogs, sheep, &c.: cook them to destroy 
the worms they usually contain. 
Budding—continue ff. on Plums, Pears, 
and Apples ; Peaches may be budded m. to 
1. Look to buds put in last month and 
loosen bandages, rebudding failures. ♦ 
Caterpillars—late: look after and de¬ 
stroy early in the morning while the dew is 
on. See June Number. 
Cherry-pits—plant or mix with earth as 
soon as collected. 
Fruit—thin out heavy crops ff. to m. 
Hoeing—continue in the nursery, and 
keep down grass and.weeds around trees in 
the orchard for a space of three feet from the 
trunk. 
Insects—destroy ff. See articles on the 
Apple-worm, Squash-bug, &c. 
Plow and cultivate among the nursery 
rows. 
Pruning—finish ff. to m. 
Vines—Grapes, Honeysuckles, &c., clear 
from useless shoots, ana layer ff. 
APPLICATION OF FISH TO GROWING CROPS. 
We find upon inquiry that it is still a very 
common practice to spread Menhaden upon 
the corn and potato fields, without covering. 
It has been stated by a farmer of Madison, 
Ct., that in the fishing season of 1848, about 
twenty millions of this fish were caught and 
used in that town for manure, a number suffi¬ 
cient to manure sixteen hundred acres of 
land, at the rate of twenty thousand fish to 
the acre—at an expense of twenty thousand 
dollars. A large part of the fish caught in 
the first of the season was applied to the po¬ 
tato crop, spread on the surface after plant¬ 
ing up to the time of the second hoeing, and 
slightly mixed with the soil in cultivation. 
A great part of the remainder were spread 
on the surface of grass land, and suffered to 
remain exposed to the atmosphere through 
the season, and some few of them were 
plowed in or composted with muck or soil. 
Fish can be applied to growing corn and 
potatoes, and where they can be procured 
early in the season, we are inclined to think 
this the best way of using them. But the 
common method of spreading them upon the 
surface, is as wasteful as it is disgusting. 
The odor is intolerable all through those dis¬ 
tricts where fish are applied in this way. 
Some put them in at the side of the hill 
with the hoe, digging a hole and covering. 
This no doubt is a very effectual method of 
saving all the manure, but it is very expen¬ 
sive, as it costs about twice as much to treat 
a crop in this way as to plant it. 
They may be put in quite as well with 
the plow, and with less than half the trouble. 
Take a small horse plow and run it as close 
to the growing corn or potatoes as possible, 
without disturbing the roots, or burying the 
tops. The best time is when the young 
plants are from three to six inches high. 
When you have made one furrow, take the 
next alternate space, and make another fur¬ 
row. Repeat the round making two furrows 
in a place. This will give you a furrow five 
or six inches deep in which to drop the fish. 
Go through with the whole piece in this 
manner, then drop your fish, two by the side 
of each hill, in the bottom of each furrow. 
With a one horse cart, the fish can be drawn 
on to the field, and dropped in heaps three 
or four rods apart, without much damage 
to the growing crop. When the fish are 
properly dropped, cover with the plow, and 
prepare to manure the alternate rows in the 
same manner as before. When this is done 
drop the fish and cover again. It takes six 
furrows in each alternate space to bury the 
fish properly by the side of each hill. It 
takes from eight to ten thousand fish to go 
over an acre in this way, according as the 
hills are planted more or less remote. The 
plowing we think is worth all it costs as a 
means of cultivating the land. It makes it 
very light and easily penetrated by the roots 
of plants. In smooth land the fish are very 
perfectly covered in this way, and little ef¬ 
fluvia will arise. In stony soil it will be 
necessary to go through the piece, with the 
hoe, to cover occasionally a fish that has 
been left by the plow." 
It is somewhat expensive to bury fish in 
this -way, but we are persuaded it costs far 
more to spread them without covering. 
Capital expended in fish applied to the grow¬ 
ing crops in June or July, brings in its re¬ 
turn in about three months. This is an item 
worth looking at where capital is used so 
sparingly as it is in farming. 
Fish caught in August and September, 
can not be used in this way. If applied to 
wheat and rye, they should be plowed in 
the same day they are spread, and where 
neighbors own nets and fish in company, as 
is quite common, they should also plow in 
company, to save the manure. By exchang¬ 
ing the work of men and teams, every man 
may have his field for winter grain fished 
one day, and plowed the next. This would 
save all the manure, and also save that an¬ 
cient and fish like smell, that afflicts the sea 
board farmers during the summer. This 
offensive odor, with many is an objection to 
the use of fish. It is not at all necessary 
but is only an incident of bad husbandry, 
destined soon to pass away. 
Where the fish are not designed to be used 
immediately, they should be composted with 
swamp mud, muck, and peat, or where this 
can not be had, with loam. A barrel of fish 
will convert a cart load of muck into a valu¬ 
able manure. This compost will be an ex¬ 
cellent dressing for grass land, and for all 
hoed crops next spring. Fish is a much 
