This section is from the book "A Dictionary Of Modern Gardening", by George William Johnson, David Landreth. Also available from Amazon: The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.
Five species. Hardy aquatics. Division and seed; ponds, cisterns, etc.
Five species. Hardy herbaceous. Seed and division. Sandy peat.
Nyctanthes arbortristis. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam and peat.
Water-lily. Eighteen species. Hardy and stove aquatics. Seed or division. Rich loam in water.
Four species. Hardy deciduous trees. Seed and layers. Common soil in a moist situation.
Querrus.
Three species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Young cuttings. Sandy loam.
Seven species. Stove evergreen shrubs, except the greenhouse O.atropurpurea. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Ochrosia borbonica. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Rich light loam.
Ochrus pallida. Hardy annual climber. Seed. Common soil.
October is one of the gardener's harvest months in the southern section of the Union; in the middle and northern states, his out-door labours are drawing to a close.
Berberries, gather. - Chestnuts, gather. - Currants and Gooseberries, plant; prune; cuttings plant. - Fig Trees, protect when leaves are off. - Fruit Trees, for forcing, plant in pots or in hot-house. Gathering apples and pears, finish. - Grapes, ripe, gather and hang up, e.; bag on the vines. - Layers of figs, filberts, mulberries, vines, etc., make; those of last year take up and plant. - Medlars, gather, e. - Planting may begin generally, e. - Pruning, commence, e. - Quinces, gather, e. - Raspberries, prune and plant, if leaves have fallen. - Ridge up ground after pruning is finished. - Services, gather, e. - Stones of cherries and plums, sow. - Strawberries, dress; plant. - Trench and prepare ground for planting. - Wall-fruit and espaliers generally, begin to prune, e. - Walnuts, gather. - Water, give abundantly at the time of planting.
Air, admit freely every fine day. - Bark-beds, renovate in fruiting stoves and succession house. - Fires must begin to be lighted where the old flue system is followed, e. - Flowering Shrubs in pots, introduce for winter blooming. - Glass, Flues, etc., repair, if not done last month. - Pines, remove into fruiting stoves, b.; Crowns plant, if required. - Roses, introduce for Christmas blooming. - Shifting into larger pots may be done. - Water about twice weekly.
Air, give freely daily, and at night, if temp. not so low as 35°. - Camellias, bud. - Earth, give fresh before returning into house. - Leaves clean, and dress plants before returning to house. - Potted Plants, return all into house, e.; place hardiest back, and tenderest in front. - Succulent Plants should all be in, b. - Water, give over the foliage after the plants are in house; give water once or twice weekly.
Basil. Thirteen species. Chiefly hardy annuals, but some are stove evergreen shrubs. See Basil.
 
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