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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[September, 
kinds are clear of the crop, remove the dead leaves and cut away useless shoots, 
which will help to ripen the wood and mature the fruit-buds for another season. 
Protect late Plums with tiffany, or other light material, to preserve them from 
wasps and flies, also Morello and late Duke Cherries^ for use through the autumn. 
Continue to trap all kinds of insects that are likely to be troublesome to the wall- 
fruit. Cut out the old canes of llaspherries^ and tie up the bearing shoots of the 
autumn-bearing varieties ; water with liquid manure in dry weather. Continue 
to clear Strawherry-hQdi.^ from weeds and runners, dress with rotten manure, and 
fork the ground between the plants. This is a good time to make new planta¬ 
tions. Look over early Pears^ and watch their ripening. The generality of early 
Pears require gathering before they are ripe, for if allowed to ripen on the tree 
the flavour will be greatly deteriorated, and the flesh become dry and spongy. 
Early dessert Apples are best gathered from the tree as they are required for use. 
—J. Powell, Frog more. 
VEGETABLES.' 
There will not be much to do in this department this month, besides harvest¬ 
ing the crops, and a resort to the usual means for the destruction of weeds, 
which grow so freely at this season, and which, owing to the longer damp nights, 
the somewhat less sun, and perhaps more rain, are more difficult to keep down 
between growing crops. Spinach.^ which should now be well up, and commencing 
to leaf freely, must be thinned out where too thick, and be well hoed through 
occasionally ; few crops prosper better with the soil freely moved around them 
than this. Harvest Onions.^ taking care that they are thoroughly dry before 
being placed in their winter quarters. Where proper convenience exists, there 
is no better plan than that of taking the crop bodily, and laying it in basketfuls, 
upon the floor of an open airy shed, as when once they are taken up, they are 
the better for not having the more rain fall on them. Caulijioiver plants., the 
produce of seeds, sown during the past month, should be pricked out into 
nursery-beds, as soon as large enough, that they may be imbued with hardihood, the 
better to withstand the winter cold. We particularly advise that all Potatos 
still remaining in the ground should be taken up at once, for it is an absolute 
loss to leave them too long in the ground. Tomatos that are late, and 
now show little signs of colouring, should have every young shoot 
pinched back, and a few of the older leaves which unduly shade or over¬ 
hang the fruits removed. Another crop of Herhs might be harvested, by 
cutting down the young growths which are made, and drying them carefully in 
an 9 pen shed, and not too quickly. Even where it may not be desirable to dry 
any more, it will be judicious to cut down again to the ground-line such herbs 
as Balm, Sorrel, Fennel, and the like, that a shorter stiff growth be formed, 
one more likely to afford a supply later in the winter than such growth as now 
exists will do. Continue the earthing-up of Celery., according to the stage at 
which it has arrived ; always choose a dry day for doing this, and do not bank 
up too much soil at one time, but rather carry out the process gradually, so that 
each row may have about four or five earthings-up. Transplant winter Lettuces 
and Endives as often as plants raised from successional sowings become large 
enough for the purpose; in transplanting them, dibble them somewhat deeper 
into the ground than is customary for spring or summer crops ; they will the 
better withstand the ill-effects of frost in consequence. The permanent planta¬ 
tion of Cabbages must be made, for the earlier spring supply, as soon as the plants 
sown last month are large enough. Upon light soil, the old Onion-bed used 
without digging it up will, if well hoed and cleaned, be the best possible place 
for them.— ^William Earley, Valentines. 
