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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ September, 
hard core which is to be found in out-of-door fruits. There is no fruit at once so 
sprightly, sparkling, refreshing, rich, as a Mulberry ripened thus, and as we 
have tasted them this year, last year, and for many years, from a small tree in 
a pot in the orchard-house at Chiswick. 
Mulberry trees do not naturally bear freely in a young state. Age seems to 
be required to give fruitfulness. In a pot, however, all this seems altered, for a 
very young plant will bear freely. A tree at Chiswick has been in constant 
bearing for fully fourteen years, having been sent so long since to the garden 
for exhibition by Major Clarke, and at that time loaded with fruit. This season 
the crop has been particularly fine, and the fruits have been large, and greatly 
relished by all the Fellows who have tasted them. 
Mulberry trees grown in pots require nothing but ordinary attention, the 
same as required for a Plum. I have some recollection of Mr. Tillery, of 
Welbeck, recommending the pot-culture of Mulberries in your pages, which I 
now, at this late period, have the pleasure to endorse. Let us, then, grow Mul¬ 
berries in pots, and thus secure another charming feature for our orchard-houses. 
—A. F. Barron. 
THE GARDEN MENTOR 
S EPTEMBER may be considered the harvest month of the gardener’s year, 
there being a great variety of fruits and vegetables fit for immediate use, 
or to be preserved for a future time. The weather is oftentimes fine in 
^ the early part of the month, but is generally rough and boisterous towards 
the end. The days now draw in apace, and vegetation already shows unmis¬ 
takable signs of the cessation of active vitality. 
Kitchen Garden. —The long continuance of dry weather has been very un¬ 
favourable for all kinds of vegetables, particularly those for winter use,— Cauli¬ 
flowers for autumn. Lettuces^ Spinach, Celery, Broccoli, and Winter Greens of all 
kinds have suffered more or less, according to the soil and situation ; every atten¬ 
tion should therefore be given to these crops to encourage them to grow as long 
as the weather continues favourable, by frequently stirring the soil between the 
plants, and by earthing up carefully as they require it. The Spinach sown last 
month should be thinned out to about six inches apart. Celery should be care¬ 
fully earthed up as it requires it, in dry weather. The general crop of Onions 
should be pulled and harvested, and this will give ground to plant the main 
crop of Cabbages from those sown about the middle of July. The ground should 
be well manured and dug deeply before the Cabbages are planted; in the North 
they should be planted not later than the middle of the month, in the South 
they will do well planted a few days later. A good quantity of Brown Dutch,^ 
Hammersmith Hardy Green Cabbage^ and Black-Seeded Bath Cos Lettuces should 
be planted on warm borders, at the foot of south walls, and in other sheltered 
places for winter and spring use. Thin and hoe between late crops of Tuimips. 
