GARDENING FOE SEPTEMBER.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1770, 4 September 1874, Page 2

GARDENING FOE SEPTEMBER.

KiTCHEJS" Gabden\—Two sowings of peas this month, the rows single, from three to five feet apart, medium early and wrinkled marrows ; sow. broad Windsor beans, ki&n^y iieatis dn.|helteredground; sowtparsely^ earl^Jbiorn^arrSt 1,. celery, for main crop, onions, parsnips, beet; cabbage, and cauliflower, in beds for transplanting; Snow's winter and Granger's brocoli, for early spring; early Dutch turnips, spinach, radishes, and. small saladings for succession; prick out early sown lettuce; and make another sowing. Make fresh beds of,thyme, mint; sage, tarragon 1, and pot,marjoram,; t sow sweet Jbazil; earth' up and stake early peas, cabbage and cauliflowers ; fork over asparagus beds; dig and trench vacant ground. Fkttit G-abdex.—Finish planting, stake and mulch round newly-planted trees ; the pruning and planting-out ought to have been done last month. Prune and lay hedges, plant forest trees for shelter on exposed .sides of the orchard. The peach tree will now be covered with l flourish. The fig trees will now show their young fruit and leaves, and the vine wiU burst out at every bud. Flowee Garden.—Sow hardy annuals, cover one-eighth of an inch—sweet peas and large seeds will require more covering ; tender sorts defer sowing till the beginning of next month the soil fre-, quently stirred; examine for slugs evening or early in. the morning; all alterations should row sbo finished; camellias and azalias, pick off dead blooms, and frequently rake the surface. Anemones, ranunculuses, Spanish iris, narcissus „and .jonquils may,, be, planted- to come nin i succession. Gladious plant,» herbaceous' plants 'divide and" plant; stocks sow; lawn grasseli' aowl "See'to' your bees, repair your boxes,- clear -every corner of cobwebs, beetles, slug 3, &c. See, Chapman* ".Handy Book pn ,the, i Honey Bee.". %.){';' ',>■'•: 1 Gbeeithottse^—Give V thorough" over. | haul, remove the plants outside;.andhftvethe interior washed, the walls .with^white- ; wash, and the glass with soap and : water^ —then re-pot in the same, or a larger" if necessary; see to drainage, destroy worms," as the operation goes on. > Gloxinia^, and.' achimenes, attest for Jast three mojnthYi sjhakeyout\*nd're;poS-.in a size less than the one they occupied. Gresnera zebrina cut down and put io rest for. two months, stir the soil;"give"a good watering, and'keep the h'ouse'iglpse for v a • few days, till roots begin to' make.— phapman's New- Zealand Almanac. ; i