The importance of summer-sown Vegetables and Salads is dealt with under July, and seeds of most of the subjects there named may still be put in as ground becomes vacant.  The supplies of the garden during the next winter and spring will in great part depend upon good management now, and the utmost must be made of the few weeks of growing weather that remain.  One great difficulty in connection with sowing seed at this period of the year is the likelihood of the ground being too dry; yet it is most unwise to water seeds, and it is always better if they can be got up with the natural moisture of the soil alone.  However, in an extreme case the ground should be well soaked before the seed is sown, and after sowing covered with hurdles, pea-sticks, or mats until the seeds begin to sprout.

==Artichokes, Globe==, to be cut down as soon as the heads are used.

==Broccoli== to be planted out.  As the Sprouting Broccoli, which belongs to the class of ‘Winter Greens,’ does not pay well in spring unless it grows freely now, plant it far enough apart; if crowded where already planted to stand the winter, take out every alternate plant and make another plantation.

==Cabbage.==—­In many small gardens the August sowing of Cabbages is made to suffice for the whole year, and in the largest establishments greater breadths are sown now than at any other period.  But whether the garden be small or large, it is not wise to rely exclusively on the sowing of any one kind.  At least two varieties should be chosen, and as a precaution each variety may be sown at two dates, with an interval of about a fortnight between.  The wisdom of this arrangement will be evident in nine seasons out of ten.  It allows for contingencies, prolongs the season of supply, and offers two distinct dishes of a single vegetable—­the mature hearts, and the partially developed plants, which differ, when served, both in appearance and in flavour.  Where the demand is extensive, or great diversity is required, three or four kinds should be sown, including Red Cabbage to produce fine heads for pickling next year.

==Cardoon.==—­Commence blanching if the plants are ready.

==Cauliflower.==—­Seed sown now will produce finer heads in spring and early summer than are generally obtained from a January or February sowing.  The time to sow must be determined by the climate of the district.  In cold, late localities, the first week is none too early; from the 15th to the 25th is a good time for all the Midland districts; and the end of the month, or the first week of September, is early enough in the South.  In Devon and Cornwall the sowing is later still.  But whatever date may suit the district, the seed should be sown with care, in order that a healthy growth may be promoted from the first.  Winter the plants in frames or by other convenient means, but it is important to keep them hardy by giving air at every favourable opportunity.

==Celery== to be carefully earthed up as required.  It takes five weeks or more to blanch Celery well, and as the earthing up checks growth, the operation should not be commenced a day too soon.  Take care that the earth does not get into the hearts.