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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[OCTOBEB 3. 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
As tlie weather changes from dry and warm to wet 
and cold frequently and suddenly at this season, it warns 
us to be careful and attentive to the plants that are 
liable to suffer from such sudden variations of tempera¬ 
ture. We must prepare the flannel for our own bodies 
to protect us from such transitions, and something 
equally as serviceable to shelter our lovely flowers from 
the same dangers. 
Auriculas and Polyanthuses must now, without 
further delay, he gathered into the place where they can 
be sheltered from excessive wet and severe frost. A 
brick pit with a glass roof is the best; and boards for 
shelves in the interior will he an advantage to keep the 
pots from the soil, and so prevent the worm from dis¬ 
arranging the soil in the pots. 
Chrysanthemums should now he showing blooms, 
and require a free and liberal supply of water, strongly 
impregnated now and then with liquid manure. Insects 
will abound, especially the green fly ; and such as are 
out of doors, in the borders or against walls, should 
have the ends of each shoot dipped in tobacco water to 
kill them. In the greenhouse or pits these pests may 
he easily destroyed by filling the house or pit with 
tobacco smoke. T. Appleby. 
THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. 
Carrots. —Those who have the convenience at this 
season of any spare lights and temporary turf-made or 
other pits or frames, with a little fermenting material, 
so as to command a genial bottom warmth, will do well 
to sow during the next two or three weeks the Early 
Horn variety, so as to ensure a good supply of early 
spring carrots; six or eight inches of light sandy earth 
should be placed close to the glass, and drills eight or 
nine inches apart be pressed into the soil with a trian¬ 
gular rod, which will leave room for a drill between each 
canot drill for radishes. Early Horn Carrots of this 
season’s growth, still left in the ground, would be better 
taken up ; the late dry weather having pretty well finished 
tlieir growth, they are now at rest, but the warmth of 
the soil and frequent showers will soon excite them into 
growth if left in the ground, causing them to produce a 
wig of fibrous roots, reducing the flavour, colour, and 
general quality of them, and inducing decay. 
Cauliflower Plants. —Those intended for early 
spring, and which are now up and growing, should have 
a due share of attention with regard to surface-stirring 
and early pricking-off. Some seasons, in close humid 
weather, the young plants, if very thick, are subject to 
destruction by mildew, but timely attention in dressing 
them with a little air-slacked lime, or dry wood-ashes, 
will clear them of this destructive pest. Late sown 
cabbage plants are also subject to the same attack, which 
may also be eradicated by the same simple means. 
Chervil and American Cress. —Make another sow¬ 
ing of both, and thin out finally that previously sown. 
Brocolis.— Those now getting too luxuriant may 
either be taken up with good balls of earth to their roots 
and removed to sheltered quarters, and there be laid-in 
for winter protection, or they may lifted up carefully and 
laid down on the ground where they are standing. If, 
however, it can conveniently be laid together in snug 
sheltered borders or quarters, it is better to do so, as much 
ground is thereby saved, which may be left to have the 
old cucumber-beds or other manure wheeled on to it as 
convenience serves, for the ground to be well winter- 
trenched and ridged. 
Storing. —Preparations should at once he made for 
storing endive and lettuce in pits, frames, or temporary 
erections, which should be attended to always whilst the i 
plants are dry. 
White Cos Lettuce. —The present is the season for 
sowing this variety in shallow frames for standing until i 
early spring. The best method we could ever find for 
producing a healthy, clear, and robust stock of plants is, 
to cast up a steep bank of tolerably dry, but healthy, 
lightish, and rather poor soil, facing the south as nearly 
as possible, then, according to the number of lights 
wanted to furnish the required quantity of plants, we 
have shallow boxes or frames, just four, nine, or ten-inch 
boards tacked together, with bearers nailed across for 
the lights to rest and slide on, and the inside filled up 
with soil, as above recommended, to the top. The seed 
sown, after one day’s settling, will have an inch or so 
clear from the glass. The seed should be gently patted 
down with the back of the spade, and a little healthy 
sandy soil sifted over it. The lights should be placed 
on a tilt-up, for the purpose of giving air at once; a 
small quantity only at first, and so increasing it both at 
the back and front until in a very few days the lights 
may in fine weather be taken quite off, and never after ; 
be shut quite close, even at night, but let air be given 
freely both back and front all the time the weather is 
mild; at the same time the plants should never be 
allowed to get wet, as such tall young plants are very 
subject to canker and mildew, and will require attention 
to keep them clear and healthy. Surface stirring, with 
very small quarter or half-inch hoes, or pointed sticks, 
will also be found very serviceable for this purpose, as 
well as sifting amongst them occasionally and carefully 
some dry sandy loam and old mortar rubbish, which 
should always be stored for such purposes. Charred 
earth or charred dust of any kind are always famous 
materials, applied in this way, for keeping plants in 
health. Some of the late sown small plants of the 
hardier kinds of Lettuce may also be pricked in frames, 
and placed as recommended in the foregoing. 
James Barnes. 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
OUR VILLAGE WALKS. 
By the Authoress of 
How much beauty there is in hill scenery! Next to the 
sea—the boundless,, terrible sea,—lulls are the objects of 
greatest grandeur and sublimity, whether they rise sternly 
before us in bold and rugged majesty, or swell into quiet 
undulations of a calm and peaceful kind. The eye as well 
as the mind is always pleased with resting on a range of 
j hills ; and how uninteresting is the richest county if it is not 
i diversified by hills, or knolls, or rising grounds ! There is 
1 one among many spots near my home, where I particularly 
| like to stand. It overlooks a narrow vale, on the other side 
“ My Flowers," Ac. 
of which stretch the tranquil Hampshire hills, so boldly and 
yet softly swelling, that they form a beautiful feature from 
every point of view. Just before me are a group of cottages 
covered with creepers, and surrounded by neat gardens ; hut 
they lie low and among trees, so that little more can be seen 
of them than the roofs, and the fruit-trees that surround 
them; but their snug, sheltered position, and the curling 
smoke that ascends from them, gives a pleasing English air 
to the view. Beyond them a large, substantial, comfortable 
farm stands upon a brow; to the right is soft woodland 
