The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25
October in the Garden.

The southern gardener finds good deal
of interesting work in this most glorious
month of the year. Surely there is beauty
all about us now. The southern farmer,
who takes the interest in his garden that
he does in his fields, finds, in a combined
attention to both, little opportunity for
idIing. The harvest is at hand. On one
hand the field is white with feecy fiber,
on another brown with corn matured and
another green with the starting crops of
grain or grass or clover. The fence rows
are bright with the waving golden rod.
The woods, with a varied mingling of
green and brown and red and yellow,
catch the rays of the declining sun and
arrest the most needless eye to gaze upon
a scene of blended beauty that no
other season can supply. Refuse it not
the homage that it so richly deserves.
Permit no mere sordid thoughts of gain
or loss to come between you and a just
recognition of this broadening vista of au-
tumnal beauty Feast upon it drink it
in! 1t will so soon fade, Impress it so
upon your memory that when destroying
winter shall have laid his relentless hand
upon the field and forest, the recollection
will abide that the scenes of beauty will
by and by come again. Let patience
have her perfect work and let the heart
be cheered to renewed efforts whether
the hopes of the present year have been
realized or not.
Let us thank God that work is a pana-
cea for many ills, and when we have the
interesting and engrossing work that the
garden affords, we have no excuse if we
deny ourselves the remedy that will dis
pei enuui and neutralize the effect of dis
appointment.
Such work as is primarily suited to
September, is, as a general rule. second
arily appropriate to October. 1t often
times happens that a high temperature
and a dry soil occurs in September and
prevents the work appropriate, in the first
degree, to thatmonth. Ii so, we do the
next best thing and undertake that work
in October In our autumn work we
must bear in mind the freezing weather
that is likely to occur before very long.
If rain and frost had their set period of
occurrence, and we could anticipate them
as closely as we do the change of the
moon, how much of doubt and uncertainty
would be taken out of our horticultural
work AS it is, however, we have
to regulate our work by certain
averages, obtained byobservatiou ana rec
ords, and that are liable to ever-Varying
"departure'' from normal, and it may be
plus and it may be minus. Indefinite as
they are, our work must be regulated by
these averages, and any marked mob
servance of them implies so much risk
taken. What will fail one year may sue
coed another Normal Cor the aEerage)
prepares US for a killing frost the first
week in November; it may not come, in
occasional years, until the latter part of
NOvem Der or in December. 1t may come
as early as the 18th or goth of October
Hardy plants that are affected by cold
weather so far as it may affect the it's
sues, may be destroyed by being heaved
out of The soil if planted so late as TO pre-
vent their taking firm hold on the soil
before freezes come. A crop put in in
September, when the soil is moist enough
TO terminate the seed promptly, will have
better chance, of course, to get hold
upon the soil sufficient to enable at to
withstand the force exerted by freezing,
than one put in later in October, should
the severe weather be on time in early
November
1t is well always to be on the safe side,
and, so far as fall paintings are con-
cerned, an observance of the averages OBJ
tanned by the meteorologists enables the
farmer and gardener to approximate the
danger point.
Cabbage, spinach, onion, satisfy should
be started now. Turnip seed sown now
will make salad and even good-siZed roots
before severe weather comes, below the
latitude of Macon in Middle Georgia
cabbage seeds sown now produce plants
10 be set out during the first half of No
yember. These plants produce heads in
May and June. In lower sections they
head much earlier than that This crop
now and then is killed by the January or
Feburary freezes. Still it is planting
That will always be risked by the ener-
getic gardener. If it fails the loss is not
Very great if it succeeds it is a very prof
liable crop-paying as large profit per
acre as any crop grown.
The experienced trucker need not be
Tod how much valuable work can be
uone IN the balmy month of October.