In the Fruit-garden. Keep your wall fruit very clean, and guard against birds and vermin; let your figs have a due ex posure to the sun ; look to your budded trees: you may still bud early in this month.
In the Flower-garden. Propagate fi brous-rooted plants ; water generally ; propagate saxifrage in particular ; sow auricula seeds, and shift those plants into fresh earth, pick out their seedlings; re move carnation layers and pink pipings; lay carnations; sow seeds of bulbs, also of the anemone, cyclamen, and ranunculus; remove late flowering bulbs ; transplant perennials ; clip hedges; cut edgings mow lawns ; trim flower plants, and ga ther their seeds ; plant autumnal bulbs ; and destroy weeds very carefully.
in the ../Vursery. Water freely ; trans plant seedlings ; trim evergreens ; bud in the early days; and prepare ground for transplanting.
In the Green-House. Shift succulent plants into larger, vessels ; propagate aloes by offsets from the old plants ; inoculate orange trees ; and water so as to keep the soil from caking.
In the Hot-House. Water freely every other day; shift the succession of pine apples into larger pots, in which they are to bear ; give but little water to ripening pines, lest the flavour be weakened.
SEPTEMBER.September.
Kitchen garden. Now prepare your beds for mushrooms, making them of the best fresh stable dung, in which the best spawn should be set ; if heavy rain should fall before completed, cover with long dry litter ; take care only to cover the spawn about half an inch. Keep these beds very dry in winter ; in very hot weather sprinkle occasionally with wa ter. A mushroom bed will produce in five or six weeks ; and old cucumber beds will often produce immense numbers. Plant and sow lettuces ; put some also into frames for winter service. Set out your young cauliflowers into a nursery bed, to stand the winter. Earth up the Michaelmas cauliflowers, and urge them to perfection, watering them abundantly, else they will be stunted. Transplant your young brocoli. Plant out your late savoys and cabbages, also your celery and coleworts. Earth up your ridged celery. Tye up endive to blanch, and plant out more for a succession. Begin to blanch the more forward cardoons. Weed your young spinach and winter onions.
Hoe your turnips in dry weather with a bold hand. Continue to sow small salad ing, chervil, &c. ; and gather your ripe seeds in fair weather.
In the Fruit-garden. Thin the leaves from over your ripening wall-fruit, espe cially your grapes ; hang up phials of syrup every where, to decoy wasps and flies ; gather your apples and pears ; prepare for plantations of fruit trees, and set out strawberries at good dis tances.
In the Flower-garden. Plant your hya cynth and tulip roots for early bloom ; prepare beds for your ranunculuses and anemones, sorting the seeds late in the month ; look to your carnation layers, and to your auriculas that are in pots ; sow auricula seed, if not done before ; transplant perennials ; sow seeds of bulbs ; plant box ; dig borders ; roll gra vel walks; trim flowering plants ; propa gate fibrous-rooted plants ; transplant peonies, and other knot-rooted plants ; as also flowering shrubs in general.
In the Nursery. Transplant evergreens, deciduous shrubs and trees ; prepare ground for receiving your late grafts, and for new stocks ; propagate trees and shrubs by cuttings ; preserve cherry and plum stones to raise stocks ; and destroy weeds and nests of vermin.
In the Green-house. Prepare for the re turn of your oranges, &c. which, as the weather becomes colder, must be taken in, and gradually be more confined in re gard to the atmosphere.
In the Hot-house Admit air only when the sun is bright, and the wind from a warm quarter ; water your pine plants moderately ; add fresh tan to your pits ; and prepare composts for this branch.
OCTOBER.October.
Kitchen-garden. Plant beans for aft early crop, preferring mazagans; you may also sow some hotspur peas for the same purpose ; transplant lettuces for winter service, and sow some for spring use ; cover your cauliflower plants ; set out your cabbages ; force your brocoli, by loosening the soil, and drawing it around their stems ; clean your winter spinach, tie up endive, and dress your bed of aromatics ; plant and set slips of herbs ; dress asparagus beds ; earth up celery and cardoons ; sow small salading and radishes, also carrots for spring use ; dig up carrots, parsnips, and potatoes : begin trenching, for the benefit of winter exposure.