==Lettuces== should be coming in from the garden now in good condition, but the supply will necessarily be running short.  Sowings of two or three sorts should be made partly in frames and partly on a dry open plot from which a crop has been taken.  The ground should be well dug but not manured.  Sow thinly, so that there will not be much need for thinning, and confine the selection to sorts known to be hardy.  The August sowings will soon be forward enough for putting out, and it will be advisable to get the work done as early as possible, to insure the plants being well established before winter.

==Parsley.==—­The latest sowing will require thinning, but for the present this must not be too strictly carried out; between this and spring there will be many opportunities.  Thin the plot by drawing out complete plants as Parsley is demanded for the kitchen.  If no late sowing was made, or, having been made, has failed, cut down to the ground the strongest plants, that a new growth may be secured quickly.  A few plants potted at the end of the month, or lifted and placed in frames, may prove exceedingly valuable in winter.

==Potatoes== that are ready should be taken up with reasonable care.  It is not wise to wait for the dying down of the shaws, because, when the tubers are fully grown, they ripen as well in the store, out of harm’s way, as in the ground, where they are exposed to influences that are simply destructive.

==Spinach.==—­In favourable seasons and forward localities Winter Spinach sown in the first half of this month will make a good plant before winter.  Thin the plants that are already up to six inches apart.

==October==

Weeds and falling leaves are the plagues of the season.  It may seem that they do no harm, but assuredly they are directly injurious to every crop upon the ground, for they encourage damp and dirt by preventing a free circulation of air amongst the crops, and the access of sunshine to the land.  Keep all clean and tidy, even to the removal of the lower leaves of Cabbages, where they lie half decayed upon the ground.

The heavy rains of this month interfere in a material degree with outdoor work, and are often a great impediment to the orderly management that should prevail.  The accumulation of rubbish anywhere, even if out of sight, is to be deplored as an evil altogether.  The injury to vegetation is as great as that inflicted on our own health when dirt poisons the air and damp hastens the general dissolution.  It is therefore above all things necessary to keep the garden clean from end to end.  All decaying refuse that can be put into trenches should be got out of sight as soon as possible, to rot harmlessly instead of infecting the air, and leaves should be often swept up into heaps, in which form they cease to be injurious, although, when spread upon the ground and trodden under foot, they are breeders of mischief.  If in want of work, ply the hoe amongst all kinds of crops, taking care not to break or bruise healthy leaves, or to disturb the roots of any plant.  Dig vacant plots, and lay the land up in ridges in the roughest manner possible.  Heavy land may be manured now with advantage, but it is not desirable to manure light land until spring.