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necessary for the ensuing season. Towards the latter end of the month, you 
may safely transplant all kinds of hardy perennial, aromatic, and medicinal 
herbs, which will thus become well rooted before winter. This work should, 
if possible, be done in moist weather. Pull and preserve your ripe onions, 
72, and sow ;nore to stand over winter, 76. Protect your grapes and other 
fruit against wasps. This may be done by hanging up phials of honeyed or 
sugared water near the fruit you wish to defend from their attacks, in which 
many of the tiny depredators will be caught and destroyed. Thoroughly 
clean from weeds all the seed-beds and young plantations of trees, shrubs, 
&c. Gather cucumbers and mangoes for pickling before they spot. Sow 
cauliflowers about the 20th, 41. 
OCTOBER. 
The young cabbage plants, produced from seeds sow.n last month, and in¬ 
tended for early summer cabbages, should be transplanted into the beds in 
which they are to remain during winter, 30. 
Prepare a bed for them, the width of your garden frame, in a warm, well- 
sheltered place, where the sun has the greatest pow 7 er; yet be careful never 
to admit the direct sunshine on the plants, when in a frozen state. When 
you have no glasses, the plants maybe protected during winter by boards or 
mats, giving air in mild weather. Cauliflowers sown in August or Septem¬ 
ber should be raised carefully, and protected, during the cold season, in garden 
frames, with boards, mats, &c., or perhaps some may survive if set in open 
borders, or they may be set in pots, 42. Weed and thin your late crops 
of spinach, leaving the best plants at the distance of three, four, or five inches 
asunder, 103. Early in the month’ hoe and earth up the late-planted crops 
of cabbages, broccoli, and borecole, cauliflowers and other plants of the bras- 
sica genus. Towards the end of the month, if the stalks of asparagus turn 
yellow, cut them close to the earth; clear the beds and alleys from weeds, 
and carry them with the stalks off the ground. It will then not be amiss to 
cover the beds and alleys w T ith old litter, well trodden down, to be removed 
in the spring. Or you may apply manure now, instead of in spring, as 
you judge besi. Cut down all decayed flower stems, and shoots of the vari¬ 
ous kind of aromatic, pot and medicinal herbs, close to the plants; clear the 
beds from weeds and litter, and carry the whole off the ground. Onions may 
now be planted out to raise seed, instead of setting them in the spring, as di¬ 
rected p. 76. The seeds of dill, skirret, rhubarb, sea-kale, may now be 
sown; for, if kept out of ground till spring, many of them will not vegetate 
till a year after; but when sown in October or November, if the seeds are 
fresh and perfect, they will vegetate in the April following. Begin to take 
up and secure potatoes, 87, beets, 22, carrots, parsneps, turnips, Jerusalem 
artichokes, &c., 13. Give a general hoeing and weeding to all your crops, 
and carry the weeds out of the garden. Such spaces of ground as are now 
vacant should be dunged, dug, or trenched, and thus have the advantage of a 
winter fallow, and that exposure to frost, which will reduce it to fine tilth, 
and destroy worms, the larvae of insects, &c. The old beds of strawberries 
should, some time in this month, be cleaned from weeds, and the vines or 
runners taken off close to the plants. Then, if there be room, loosen the 
earth to a moderate depth between the plants, taking care not to disturb the 
roots. And if the plants are in beds with alleys between, line out the alleys, 
rnd 1st them be dug a moderate depth, breaking the earth very fine, and 
