“ A child should never be left alone in any situation where he may be exposed to the destructive element of fire. We daily hear of children that have been burned to death, in consequence of their clothes having caught fire ”

“ Sow full crops and turnips, both yellow and white; also fle (illegible text) turnip, white, green, red, and Swedish. Sow beet, red, white, and green, in drilling about an inch deep, and ten or twelve inches distant. Hoe beans and pease; top the former, and stick the latter. A few of the early kind of each may be sown the first or second week for the latest crop. Gather and dry sweet and pot herbs as they come to bloom. Train wall trees and espaliers. Secure young trees against wind, and water them in dry weather. Mow grass walks in the morning, before the dew is off. ”

“ Make small hot-beds for raising cucumbers and melon plants. Plant some early potatoes on a warm sheltered situation, covering them, in frosty evenings, with litter or pease straw. About the middle sow brocoli, cabbages, savoys, asparagus, and onions; also cauliflowers, leeks, carrots, turnips &c. and pease and beans every fortnight, for a succession. Plant out cabbages and savoys, artichokes, and asparagus. Sow all kinds of hardy annual flower seed in the open ground, and the tender kind in a moderate hot-bed, in pots. ”

“ The taste of the turnip is easily taken off milk and butter, by dissolving a little mitre in spring water, which being kept in a bottle, and a small tea cup full put into eight gallons of milk, when warm from the cow, entirely removes any taste or flavour of the turnip. ”

“ Cut box edgings. Nail up young shoots of wall-trees, and tie espalters with twigs of the golden willow. Remove plants out of the green-house, and place them in a shady sheltered border, observing to water them duly. ”

“ Put a pound of potatoes in a net, into a small kettle with cold water, and (lest the skin break, and let in the water) hang it at a distance (so as not to boil) over the fire till they become soft, then skin, mash, and rub them so as to be well mixed with a pound of flour, a very large spoonful of salt, and two large spoonfuls of yeast, but less of the yeast is better. Then add a little warm water, and kned it up as other dough; lay it a little while before the fire to ferment of rise, then bake it in a very hot oven.
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Remedy for Frost-bitten Potatoes. ”

“ Sow full crops of French and Turkey beans; marrowfat and every other kind of pease. Every week, during the summer months, sow lettuces, &c. for a constant supply of salad. Earth up celery, and thin onions, carrots, turnips, and spinage, where necessary, taking care to leave the strongest plants. Plant cucumbers under hand glasses. Water in dry weather, young fruit trees, and protect the roots from the heat, with short grass laid round the stems. ”

“ If any vacant ground, sow turnips, carrots, onion, winter spinage, kidney beans, endive, &c. Towards the end, plant sweet herbs. Transplant celery, more cabbages and cauliflowers, on the ground where the early pease are done. Water, in dry weather, always in the evening. Dung and dig ground for full crops of winter greens and cabbage to be planted next month. ”

“ Dig the ground as soon as the autumn crops have taken off; lay it up in ridges, that it may have the benefit of the frost.
It is of great benefit to keep bees. Three hives are often worth as much as your rent: they require but little attention; they should be watched while they swarm ”

“ In cases of substances being stopt between the mouth and the stomach, where this cannot be extracted by the fingers or otherwise, the person should swallow a piece of meat or tow tied to a thread, which should be immediately drawer up again, Emetics are sometimes serviceable, and injections of warm milk and water frequently remove the obstructions. ”

“ In general, an attempt is made to tear off the burning clothes from the sufferer, which should never be done. The clothing, instead of being torn off, ought to be pressed close to the body, and whatever is at hand wrapped over it, so as to exclude the air, when the blaze will go out ”

“ Persons are in danger of being destroyed by it, when they become very drowsy, or are affected with general numbness or insensibility of the body. As the cold which proves fatal generally affects the feet first, great care should be taken to keep them as warm as possible. ”

“ This month requires the greatest executions of any in the year with the gardening the ground being ready to receive whatever is planted or sown. Sow pease and beans and sallads, every ten or fourteen days. Plant potatoes, and transplant cauliflowers, lettuces, &c. Sow parsley, celery, endives, purslane, and pot and sweet herbs. Have pease and beans, and sow more to keep up a succession; stick tall growing pease when four or five inches high, and top beans when come to their full height. Thin out onions, carrots, turnips, spinage, &c. ”

“ Cut an apple, and rub it for a few minutes over the wart; the juice of the apple will loosen the wart, and in a few days it will drop off. Any strong acid, either vegetable or mineral, has the same tendency. ”

“ Press down the breast carefully with both hands and then let it rise again, and thus imitate natural breathing. Continue the rubbing, and increase it when life appears, and then give a tee-spoonful of warm water, or of very weak wine or spirits and warm water. ”

“ Keep the mouth, nostrils, and the throat free and clean. Apply warm substances to the back, spine, pit of the stomach, arm-pits, and soles of the feet. Rub the body with heated flannel, or warm hands. ”

“ Slip and transplant fibrous-rooted plants and flowers.
OCTOBER.
In this and the three following months, dung, dig, and trench all vacant ground, to be ready for spring crops, covering in the dung well. Plant out early cabbages to cut in May. Towards the middle, plant early pease and beans, and earth these when two inches high. About then plant all kinds of fruit trees; and, before the frost sets in, gooseberries, currants, (illegible text) and flowering shrubs. All kinds of trees, whether fruit or forest, transplanted this month, will thrive better than (illegible text) . ”