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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 45

October

page 86

October.

Kitchen Garden.—If the season has been so wet as to have retarded the sowing of all the seeds recommended last month, they should be got in as soon as a sufficiently dry bed can be got for them; but on no account attempt the sowing of seeds in mud as they will be almost sure to perish in the ground, and the seedsman be accused of vending worthless seeds. Early sorts of cabbage, cauliflowers, leeks, and onions, should be planted out, and seeds sown of carrots and parsnips, melons, cucumbers, gourds, tomatoes, vegetable marrows, &c. In dry weather keep surface open by stirring with Dutch hoe.

Flower Garden.—All the tender annuals may now be sown, as balsams, cockscombs, rhodanthes, zinnias, &c. Fill up vacancies. Prepare ground for dahlias and hollyhocks, and get a few early ones planted out. Attend to climbers and keep them tied in as they grow.

Farm.—Plant potatoes. Sow mangolds, maize, carrots, chicory, mustard, for main crops in late districts; lucerne can still be sown with every chance of success. Attend to hedges and fences, as after the winter rains all the fences should be looked to and made secure.