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Standard Fruit Trees should be as well attended to as wall fruit trees, but, 

 as they are not quite eo easily got at, they are mostly neglected, otherwise 

 there is no one operation that benefits the wall tree that would not also 

 benefit the standard, whose fruit would be very nearly as large and better 

 flavoured. 



Stringing Fruit Trees. — This is of the greatest service, not only in dis- 

 lodging vermin cf all kinds, but cleaning and refreshing the trees. 



Vines should be looked over, and the shoots stopped at the first or second 

 joint beyond the fruit ; clear them of all useless shoots ; and see that the others 

 are nailed properly. 



Strawberries in Flower will require watering if the weather be at 

 all dry. 



Broad Beans. — Sow more if it be desirublo to have successive crops, though 

 few care to have a continuance. Take the tops off them in flower, and draw toe 

 earth up round the earlier sown ones. 



Savoy Seed. — Sow for a late crop, plant out some of the earliest sowing. 

 Pe»s — Sow some twice in the month ; peas should be sown right through the 

 season, evrry fortnight or three weeks; earth up those which are up and advan- 

 cing ; stick th'se which are forward enough. 



Endive should be sown for a few early plants in rich open ground. 

 Pot Herbs may be sown, and slips may be put in the ground. 

 Radish Seed. — Sow more, and choose some of the handsomest of the crop 

 gone by to plant for seed, and choose those which are most smooth-skinned and 

 bright-coloured ; plant them in a row two feet apart. 



Celery. — The March-sown will be large enough to prick out ; take the 

 largest, and contrive to thin the seed-bed ail over, rather than clear it iu any part ; 

 prick them out three or four inciies apart, on a piece of rich ground, there to 

 strengthen six weeks ; water them in to settle their roots. 



Onions must be hoed and cleaned, the plants for bulbing must not be closer 

 than four or five inches ; if, however, any be left, they may be drawn for salads ; 

 but it is better not to have the bed trampled upon oftener than is necessary, 

 therefore it should be well cleared of weeds and properly thinned at once ; sup- 

 port the stems of those going to seed. 



Cabbages. — Transplant a quantity of the spring-sown ones in rows eighteen 

 inches apart every way. Tie up some of those that are forward enough, so that 

 the hearts may be whitened ; earth up them that are advancing, loosening the 

 soil, drawing the earth up the stems. Sow other seed. 



CAULrFLOWBES, protected with handglasses, are now beginning to show flower, 

 and when this is the case break down one or two leaves to cover them from the 

 wet and sun. If the weather prove very dry, the plants must be watered; trans- 

 plant others from the seed or nursery bed, and sow more seed. 



Bkocoli Seed mn«t be sown this month ; and it is better to sow two or three 

 kinds, ani at two separate seasons, a fortnight apart. 



Kale or Brown Cole, or Borecole, sow this month, if it be intended to grow 

 any, (or it is a course vegetable. 



Kidney Beans may be planted for a principal crop, and scarlet runners. The 

 former in drills three inches to four apart in the drills, and the drills eighteen 

 inches ; the latter six inches apart in the drills, and three feet apart. 



Capsicum and Tomato Plants. — Put a few under a south wall, or at the 

 foot ol a south bank. 



Lettuce. — Transplant some of the strongest lettuce plants, thinning the place 

 they were sown in, that the roots may perfect their growth on the seed-bed. Sow 

 gome oi the different varieties. 



Cuci'mijeub. —Level the soil in the bed, and lay the branches out of each 

 Other's way ; pinch off the ends of vigorous shoots. 



Small Salad. — Sow mustard, rape, cross, radish, and other small salad herbs. 

 SPINACH. The sowing of this Oiast depend entirely on the supply required; 

 if it be required in any quantity, it must be sown once a fortnight, as it should 

 be pulled and eaten before it runB up to seed. It may t>e either sown 

 evenly all over a piece of ground allotted to it, or in drills a foot apart from 

 drill to drill. 

 May. 



