CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER. 
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Stride. Small furrows or streaks. 
Striated. Having several nearly parallel bands of colour. 
Stricde. Small, irregular, rigid hairs. 
Strigose. Clothed with short, rough hairs, or strigae. 
Struma. A rounded swelling or protuberance, like a wen. 
Style. The connecting stalk between the ovarium and style, 
supporting the latter. 
Suferuticose. Partaking slightly of the character of shrubs. 
Sulcate. Deeply and distinctly furrowed. 
Surculi. Young shoots. 
CALENDAR OF KITCHEN GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR 
OCTOBER. 
This month may be regarded as the termination of all, or nearly 
all sowing and planting, and as this work should be completed, 
as expeditiously as circumstances will permit, every fine day 
should be devoted to it until finished. Cauliflowers for next season 
are perhaps the most important among this class : from among 
those pricked out last month select the strongest, and plant 
them, nine together, under handlights stationed about a yard 
apart, upon a south border of rich soil: nine plants will fill each 
glass, and in spring six of these will require to be removed; the 
object in putting so many together now is to economise space; 
the remainder of those in the beds should be pricked into a cu¬ 
cumber frame, or pit, filling the earth up to within a foot of the 
glass, and allowing the plants to stand about four inches one 
from another. In either position they must have abundance of 
air whenever it can be given, as all that is required is to guard 
them from excessive frost and wet. The crop of August-sown 
cabbages will require thinning; the strongest may be planted out 
at once, and the others pricked into beds, or any spare ground 
may be filled with them. Lettuces will require similar treat¬ 
ment, the largest should be put out on a warm border, to come 
into use through the winter and spring, the later sown ones 
should be pricked into a frame or on some very sheltered place, 
as they are intended to stand entirely till spring ; the slugs will 
want constant watching about these, or they commit much 
mischief. 
