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earth-up cardoons. If the weather continues dry, copious watering 
will be required by the growing crops; particularly kidney-beans, 
cucumbers, peas, and all lately transplanted crops. Gather and store 
onions, shallot, garlic, and kinds of ripe seeds, and flowers, and herbs 
for drying. Salad plants, viz. common radish, cress, mustard, and 
rape, may still be sown in frames, under hand-glasses, or close under 
walls where they may receive protection. Clear away all fallen leaves 
and decayed stems of crops already used, in order that insects may not 
be invited to harbour or breed among them. 
Fruit Garden. —Take care of the ripe and ripening fruit; that 
intended for immediate use should be gathered early in the morning, 
and kept in the coolest part of the fruit-room till wanted. Flat and 
wide baskets, and the softest white-leather gloves, are requisite in 
gathering the finest fruit. Protect against wasps, flies, and earwigs; 
destroy wasps’ nests near the garden, and allure them from the fruit 
by offering phials of sugared water. Wall-fruit trees still require look¬ 
ing over, to displace redundant growths, and keep the leaders close to 
the wall. Trees suffering' from insects should be often and forcibly 
washed with the engine. Strawberries planted or potted last month 
will require frequent watering, and to be kept free from runners. 
Flower Garden. —If cuttings or layers made in the last two 
months are sufficiently rooted, they may be removed to beds, or into 
pots, where they are intended to flower. Carnation layers and pink 
pipings, as well as all others raised in the same way, come under this 
direction. Auriculas should be cleared of dead leaves, the surface of 
the pots freshened up, a little fresh compost added, and if any require 
shifting, it may now be done. The seeds of anemones, ranunculuses, 
&e., may still be sown in pans or boxes, if not already done. Dahlias 
are now in full beauty ; and the Chinese chrysanthemums, whether 
potted or not, require frequent watering over head to accelerate their 
growth. Prepare the greenhouse for the reception of the plants about 
the 20th, and if any require shifting, it may be done previously. Also 
prepare the beds intended for tulips, hyacinths, &c., by trenching and 
additions of fresh compost. The beauty of a flower-garden in the spring 
depends very much on the preparations and dispositions made in autumn. 
Foresight is an indispensible faculty of the flower-gardener. 
COTTAGE ECONOMY. 
A respected correspondent, whose views are of the most laudable 
and philanthropic description, has directed our attention to the occa- 
