_Kitchen Garden._--Sow kidney-beans for succession; also the wrinkled
marrow peas and Seville Longpod and Windsor beans for late crops. Sow
salading every ten days; also carrots, onions and radishes for drawing
young; and chicory for salads; sow endive for a full crop. In the
first week sow Early Munich and Golden Ball turnips for succession,
and in the third week for a full autumn crop. Sow scarlet and white
runner beans for a late crop, and cabbages for coleworts. Make up
successional mushroom beds early in the month. Plant full crops of
broccoli, Brussels sprouts, savoys, kales, leeks and early celery,
with successional crops of cabbage and cauliflower. In the first
fortnight of the month, plant hardy cucumbers for pickling, in a warm
border, placing hand-glasses over them towards the end of the month.
Plant out capsicums and tomatoes in sunny positions, and stake and tie
securely. Pull and store winter onions, if ripe.
_Fruit Garden._--Train and prune the summer shoots of wall and trellis
and other trained trees. Mulch and water fruit trees and strawberries
in dry weather, desisting when the fruit begins to ripen. Net over
cherry-trees. Destroy aphides and other insects by syringing with
tobacco water, or by fumigating, or by dusting with tobacco powder.
_Forcing._--Proceed with planting melons, cucumbers and tomatoes. Keep
up the necessary temperatures for the ripening of the various fruits.
Ventilation will still require constant care. Tomatoes will now be
fruiting freely; thin out judiciously, avoiding excessive pruning at
one time. Attend to the gathering of fruit as it ripens.
_Plant Houses._--These will now be occupied with tender greenhouse
plants and annuals, and the more hardy plants from the stove. Shift,
repot and propagate all plants that are desirable. Sow fragrant or
showy annuals to flower in pots during winter; and grow on a set of
decorative plants for the same object. Continue the final potting of
chrysanthemums as the plants become ready.
_Flower Garden._--Plant out dahlias and other tender subjects, if risk
of frost is past. Take up bulbs and tuberous roots and dry them in the
shade before removing them to the store-room. Fill up with annuals and
greenhouse plants those beds from which the bulbs and roots have been
raised. After this season, keep always a reserve of annuals in pots,
or planted on beds of thin layers of fibrous matter, so as to be
readily transplanted. Layer carnations and pipe pinks in the end of
the month. Keep the lawns closely mown.