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HORTICULTURAL CALENDAR. 
and three husliels of soot, add twenty gallons of soft water; stir it up, 
and take off the scum for several days; then take the clear liquor, and 
add one quart of good tobacco water to every two gallons, and apply 
it with a syringe or engine. For the red Spider, add, about a 
quarter of a pound of sulphur to the above quantity. 
Pear Trees may be occasionally watered with clear lime water, to 
destroy the little insect which feeds upon the upper rind and pulp of 
the leaves. 
Plum Trees if infested with the Aphis, as soon as the fruit is 
gathered, pick off the worst of the leaves on which they are feeding, 
wash the trees well with soap-suds and strong tobacco-water, which, 
in general, will be found effectual at the first dressing. 
Strawberry Beds, in late situations, and now in bearing, will re¬ 
quire watering, if the weather proves dry. Those in pots intended 
for forcing must be constantly divested of their runners. This is also 
a good time to plant new beds. 
Vines in Pots now brought into the Vinery will ripen their fruit in 
January. 
VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 
Carrots sown about the middle of the month will be fit for table 
in the spring. A small fly deposits its eggs on the carrot, about the 
beginning of the month, but we are unable either to tell what sort it 
is or how to destroy it properly and effectually. 
Cabbage Seed sown the first week will come in for coleworts in 
winter and spring. Also finish planting Savoys, &c. 
Cauliflowers planted out now will be in use from October. To¬ 
wards the end of the month, sow more seed to stand the winter in 
frames. 
Celery planted out last month, will require earthing in fine wea¬ 
ther ; and more should be planted for spring use. 
Cucumbers raised from cuttings, if well watered and otherwise 
looked after, will bear abundantly from the beginning of September. 
Endive. —Plant out for a full crop, and sow more seeds to come 
into use early in the spring. 
Lettuces sown in the first and third weeks, come into use in Oc¬ 
tober ; plant out also from the seedling beds such plants as are of a 
sufficient size. 
Onions must be taken up in fine weather. Sow a few Stratsburgh 
to use in October and November; and about the middle of the month, 
sow a crop of Welsh for winter use. 
Mushroom Beds made now, come into use in October. 
Broccoli. —Sow Green Cape, and Early Purple Cape, to produce 
heads in April and May next year. 
