the brown Dutch
kinds, in a warm and well sheltered border. Take up garlic, and spread
it on a mat to harden. In the same manner take up onions and rocambole,
and shalots at the latter end of the month.--SEPTEMBER. Sow various
kinds of lettuces, Silesia, Cos, and Dutch, and when they come up,
shelter them carefully. The common practice is to keep them under
hand-glasses, but they will thrive better under a reed fence, placed
sloping over them. Make up fresh warm beds with the dung that has lain a
month in the heap. Plant the spawn in these beds, upon pasture mould,
and raise the top of the bed to a ridge, to throw off the wet. Look to
the turnip beds and thin them, leaving the plants six inches apart from
each other. Weed the spinach, onions, and other new-sown plants. Earth
up the celery, and sow young sallads upon warm and well-sheltered
borders. Clean asparagus beds, cut down the stalks, pare off the earth
from the surface of the alleys, throw it upon the beds half an inch
thick, and sprinkle over it a little dung from an old melon bed. Dig up
the ground where summer crops have ripened, and lay it in ridges for the
winter. The ridges should be disposed east and west, and turned once in
two months, to give them the advantage of a fallow. Sow some beans and
peas on warm and well-sheltered borders, to stand out the
winter.--OCTOBER. Set out cauliflower plants, where they can be
sheltered; and if glasses are used, put two under each, for fear of one
failing. Sow another crop of peas, and plant more beans; choose a dry
spot for them, where they can be sheltered from the winter's cold.
Transplant the lettuces sown last month, where they can be defended by a
reed fence, or under a wall. Transplant cabbage plants and coleworts,
where they are to remain. Take great care of the cauliflower plants sown
early in summer; and as they now begin to show their heads, break in the
leaves upon them to keep off the sun and rain; it will both harden and
whiten them.--NOVEMBER. Weed the crops of spinach, and others that were
sown late, or the wild growth will smother and starve the crop. Dig up a
border under a warm wall, and sow some carrots for spring; sow radishes
in a similar situation, and let the ground be dug deep for both. Turn
the mould that was trenched and laid up for fallowing; this will destroy
the weeds, and enrich the soil by exposing it to the air. Prepare some
hotbeds for salading, cover them five inches with mould, and so