_Kitchen Garden._--Sow winter and spring spinach in the beginning and
about the end of the month; parsley and winter onions, for a full
crop, in the first week; cabbages about the middle of the month, for
planting out in spring; cauliflower in the first half (Scotland) and
in the second half (England) of the month; Hardy Hammersmith and Brown
Cos lettuce in the first and last week; small salads occasionally; and
Black Spanish radish, for winter crops. Plant out kales and broccoli
for late crops; plant celery (earthing up the advancing crops as
required), endive for succession, and a few coleworts. Take up
shallots, garlic, &c.
_Fruit Garden._--Proceed in training and regulating the summer shoots
of all fruit trees as directed for the last three months. Net up, in
dry weather, gooseberry and currant bushes, to preserve the fruit till
late in the autumn. Make new strawberry beds if required. Preserve the
ripening fruits on the wall and other trees from insects, and destroy
wasp nests. Gather fruits as they ripen.
_Forcing._--The routine of cultivation in hotbeds and pits may be
continued. Sow tomatoes and cucumbers for a winter crop. Make up
mushroom beds. In the forcing-houses, where the crops are past, part
of the sashes may be removed, so as to permit thorough ventilation.
_Plant Houses._--Attend to the propagation of all sorts of greenhouse
plants by cuttings, and to the replacing in the greenhouse and stoves
the more tender species, by the end of the month in ordinary seasons,
but in wet weather in the second week. Sow half-hardy annuals, as
Nemophila, Collinsia, Schizanthus, Rhodanthe, &c., to flower during
winter.
_Flower Garden and Shrubbery._--Sow in the second and the last week,
on a warm border of a light sandy soil, with an east aspect, any
free-flowering hardy annuals as _Silene pendula_, Nemophila, &c., for
planting in spring; and auricula and primula seeds in pots and boxes.
Propagate, all sorts of herbaceous plants by rooted slips or suckers;
take off layers of carnations, picotees and pansies. Plant cuttings of
bedding plants, and of bedding pelargoniums in boxes for convenience
of removal. Layer the tops of chrysanthemums, to obtain dwarf
flowering plants. Transplant evergreens in moist weather, about the
end of the month; and propagate them by layers and cuttings. Pot
Neapolitan violets for forcing; or plant out on a mild hotbed. Clip
box edgings.