_Kitchen Garden._--Sow small salading for late crops; and lettuce and
spinach, if not done last month, for spring crops. Plant endive and
lettuce at the foot of a south wall to stand the winter; plant out
cabbages from the chief autumn sowing. Plant cauliflowers on a warm
border in spaces such as can be protected by hand-lights. Thin the
winter spinach, when large enough, that it may have space to grow. If
broccoli be too rank or tall to withstand the winter, lift and lay
nearly up to the neck in the earth, the heads sloping towards the
north. Lift onions, and lay them out to ripen on a dry border or
gravel-walk. Lift potatoes and store them.
_Fruit Garden._--Finish the summer pruning and training. Where the
walls are heated, assist the maturing of peaches and nectarines, and
the ripening of the young wood for next year, by fires during the day.
Gather and lay up in the fruit-room with care the autumnal sorts of
apples and pears. Prepare borders and stations for fruit trees during
dry weather. Plant strawberries for a main crop. Repot orchard-house
trees, disrooting if necessary.
_Forcing._--Take care that late melons, cucumbers and tomatoes be not
injured by getting too much water and too little air. Sow a few kidney
beans for an early forced crop. Expel damp, and assist the ripening of
late grapes and peaches with fires during the day. Prune early vines
and peaches.
_Plant Houses._--The various pot plants should now be put in their
winter quarters. Keep up moderate temperatures in the stove, and
merely repel frosts in the greenhouse, guarding against damp, by
ventilation and by the cautious use of water. Pot hyacinths, tulips
and other bulbs for forcing; and propagate half-hardy plants by
cuttings. Begin the housing of the main stock of chrysanthemums.
_Flower Garden, &c._--Sow in the beginning of this month all
half-hardy annuals required for early flowering; also mignonette in
pots, thinning the plants at an early stage; the different species of
primula; and the seeds of such plants as, if sown in spring, seldom
come up the same season, but if sown in September and October,
vegetate readily the succeeding spring. Put in cuttings of bedding
pelargoniums in boxes, which may stand outdoors exposed to the sun,
but should be sheltered from excessive rains. Continue the propagation
of herbaceous plants, taking off the layers of carnations, picotees,
pansies and chrysanthemums, by the end of the month; choice
carnations and picotees may be potted and wintered in cold frames if
the season is wet and ungenial. Plant evergreens; lay and put in
cuttings of most of the hard-wooded sorts of shrubby plants.