Adam, the Gardener - By Charles Cowden Clarke (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ... plants. ' As we are all fond of small sallad and radishes, you may sow some of each, with some cabbage lettuce, to cut while it is young. "In the latter part of the month, (if the weather be dry) we will dig up the carrots and potatoes, and carry them into the cellar for winter use. All the spare ground, too, should be well dug and trenched. "Gather the baking and other winter pears and apples; and let them be carefully gathered--not bruised. "Remind me that, at the end of the month, I look over the wall trees, and prune and nail such as require those operations. All trees, too, that we wish to transplant, may be so done at the end of the month. We may plant out, too, and prune our gooseberries and currants. You, yourself, shall propagate some gooseberries and currants; and these are the directions you must follow in performing that operation. Select the best bearing trees, and cut off the shoots of the present year's wood: shorten these cuttings to the length of about eighteen inches each, and set them half-way in the earth in a shady border, three inches asunder, in rows of ten or twelve inches apart. "On a dry day we will dress the strawberry beds: which is to be done by cutting away all the runners close to the mother plant; clearing the rubbish and weeds away; hoeing between the plants without disturbing the roots; then by digging up the alleys, and laying a portion of the earth neatly over the beds and closely round the plants. If we would have fine strawberries next year, we must on no account neglect this precaution. "The raspberries must be pruned this month, and the young suckers removed to create new plants. "The shoots of vines and filberds, &c, should be laid down about five or six inches deep in the earth, an...