October 18. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
and thatched. Beet may be preserved until the 
storing season comes round again. 
Brocoli. —If too luxuriant, cut round the plants 
with a spade to shorten the strong roots, or take up 
the brocoli carefully at once, and remove it to some 
sheltered situation where it may with convenience be 
slightly protected when the frosts set in. If the 
latter plan be adopted, the ground thus cleared 
should have some manure wheeled on to it, and he 
thoroughly trenched up into good rough ridges or 
sloping banks, so that it may receive all the benefi¬ 
cial influences of the weather throughout the winter 
months. 
Cauliflowers. —Those who have the means should 
make a final plan ting out under hand-glasses about 
the 2lst oi' October. Choose a good open quarter in 
preference to that of a fruit-tree border, where too 
many people are apt to place their hand-glass crops 
of cauliflower. Instead of doing so, choose an open 
quarter, and let the ground he well manured and 
trenched in at least two feet deep, if this has not been 
already done; work it well, and, after making the 
surface level, line it out neatly, so as to have the 
rows in line every way; let the rows he four feet 
apart from row to row, and the plants three feet 
apart in the row. Two feet wide paths and two feet 
wide beds will give four feet in the clear between the 
rows, and then if the wish be to give the work a little 
neater appearance, throw up a few crumbs from the 
paths, and make the edges true, and chop it out by 
line. The ground being ready, insert your plants 
four or five together under each glass, choosing some 
of the best and strongest from your nursery-beds ; 
lift them up with a little care, so as not to hurt their 
fibrous roots more than can he helped. This being 
done, put on the glasses, and let theni remain on for 
three or four days, after which give a little air by 
tilting the glasses up on the south side ivith a small 
flower-pot, or a half brick, for six or eight hours every 
day ; and after this, any very fine warm days, the 
lights may be taken quite off about nine o’clock in 
the morning, and put on again at three in the after¬ 
noon. 
Kidney Beans. —The cottager during his dinner¬ 
time, of a nice fine day, should look after all his gar¬ 
den seeds, particularly now his scarlet runner and 
dwarf kidney leans. Before he pulls them up, or in 
doing so, he should collect all the ripest pods, and 
dry them oft' well before he stores them away, and 
when quite dry, without being taken out of the pods, 
they may be put in a little old hamper or box, and 
preserved in some dry place. 
Mushroom Beds should he looked to, to see that 
they are going on well. If the surface he found too 
cold, add a thicker covering, which will draw up the 
heat of the beds; and if the beds should he too hot, 
reduce the thickness of covering a little; the tempe¬ 
rature should range from 50° to 55°. 
Carrots. —The principal crops will now have be¬ 
come pretty generally fit for storing. Do not place 
too many together, as they are liable to ferment, and 
if the injurious effects of too close packing should not 
immediately become apparent, yet at the season when 
this vegetable is most in request with the good old 
English fare, the roots will be found partially de¬ 
cayed, woolly at the core and flavourless. Our prac¬ 
tice is to store them in narrow stacks; if in a dry 
shed, we put some dry sand amongst them; if in a 
close shed or cellar, we then put no sand, but place a 
little brushwood to prevent their getting too close to¬ 
gether. 
Endive. —This vegetable may be bleached so sim¬ 
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ply, and in so many ways, that it should now be at 
once attended to, as white frost or damp weather is 
liable to injure the large or full-grown plants. Take 
up a quantity on a fine dry afternoon, and place them 
in a little dry sand; the floor of the fruit-room or 
cellar, or in some dry shed, any one of which situa¬ 
tions are good for the bleaching of endive, with a 
very little trouble. Successions of late plants should 
still be planted on dry healthy borders or sloping 
banks, for a late spring supply. 
Horseradish. —Trenching out should now be com¬ 
menced on one side or end as the rows go. First 
have ready a good quantity of manure. If the soil 
is stiff, leaf-mould, road-grit, cinder-ashes, and char¬ 
red materials are all excellent for trenching in. The 
ground should be again planted as the trenching 
proceeds. Our practice is to trench two feet deep, 
forking up the subsoil, and letting it remain loose, 
and trenching the ground into rough ridges at tire 
foot or bottom of each row; at the very bottom of 
each row we place at one foot distance from each 
other the tops or crowns of the horseradish, and any 
crooked or inferior forked plants entire, ready for the 
next crop, as we find the stronger the plant the finer 
will be the next produce. By these means the rows 
are two feet apart, and the crowns or plants are not 
too deeply buried, as they, of course, are between the 
ridges, which are not levelled until the plants are 
making their appearance in the next spring or sum¬ 
mer, and then they are gradually hoed or forked 
down amongst them. 
J erusalem Artichokes are not yet in full season, 
and are therefore best left in the ground until after 
Christmas, as the tubers will continue to swell until 
that time. The surface of the soil should then be 
protected with a thin coat of leaves or refuse of any 
kind, and their own stalks should be placed over this, 
to prevent its being scattered by the wind. Take up 
the bulbs as required. 
Routine Work. —Keep all yellow and decayed 
leaves well cleared up from amongst your cabbages and 
cole worts. Watch for every opportunity of surface¬ 
stirring the soil, not only for the sake of keeping up 
a healthy appearance, but also to reduce the number 
of slugs, for which pests traps also should be set, as 
before recommended, with new brewer’s grains or 
bran. When so collected, early in the evening, turn 
the slugs to useful account by killing them with 
quicklime, and digging them into the ground. Col¬ 
lect now all kinds of leaves, as well as any vegetable 
refuse that cannot be turned to better account, and 
add them to the manure pit, throwing all drainage 
continually over it. When the full crop of leaves 
are down, and those of the oak, beech, and Spanish 
chesnut are obtainable, these may be collected on 
some fine day, and be stored away with great advan¬ 
tage for pig or cattle litter or beds. 
James Barnes & W. 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
OUR VILLAGE WALKS. 
(No. 2.) 
What would England be without her villages? 
They arc her beauty and her pride ; for they speak 
eloquently of peace and security, of domestic happi- 
[ ness among the poor and lowly, and of social ties that 
bind man to man for common help and comfort. 
I Even large and thriving towns do not express this 
| half so clearly; we must visit the quiet, secluded vil- 
