The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-03

The Southern gardner finds a 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
idling. 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 fields 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 sor-
did thoughts of gain or loss to come be-
tween you and just recognition of this
broadening vista of autumnal beauty.
Feast upon it, drink it in. 1t will soon
fade. Impress it so upon your memory
that when destroying winter shall have
laid his relentless hand upon field and
forest, the recollection will abide that
these scenes of beauty will by and by
come again. Let patience have her perfect
work and let the heart be cheered to re-
newed efforts whether the hopes of the
present year have been realized or not.
Let US thank God that work is a panacea
for many ills, and when we have the in
teresting and engrossing work that the
garden affords, we have no excuse if We
deny ourselves the remedy that will dis
pei ennui and neutralize the effect of dis
appointment.
Such work as is primarily suited to Sep
TENDER is, as a general rule, secondarily
appropriate to October. 1t oftentimes hap
pens that a high temperature and a dry
soil occurs in September and prevents the
work appropriate, in the first degree, to
that month. If so, we do the next best
thing and undertake the 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 by observation
and records, and that are liable to ever
varying departures" from normal, and
1t may be plus or it may be minus In
definite as they are, our work must be
regulated by these averages, and any
marked inobserVance Of them implies SO
much risk taken. What will fail one wear
may succeed another. Normal Cor the
average) prepares us for a killing frost
the first week in November; 1t may not
come, in occasional years, until the latter
part Of November or in December. 1t may
come as early as the 18th, or 10Th of Oc-
tober.
Hardy plants that are not affected by
cold so far as it may effect the tissues,
may be destroyed by being heaved out of
the soil If planted so late as to prevent
their taking a firm hold on the soil before
freezes come. A crop put in in September
when the soil is moist enough to terminate
the seeds promptly, will have better
chance of course to get a hold upon the
soil sufficient to enable 1t 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 concerned,
an observance of the averages obtained
by the meterologists enables the farmer
and gardener to approximate the danger
point.