SECT. XX 



MAY. 379 



MAY. 



LET this charming month be ushered in with due 

 refpe6l, by the garden being in excellent order, to 

 which end let no help be fpared, when the gardener ia 

 not competent to perform the work himfelf : It is forne- 

 times too much for the raoft induftrious man. 



We now gather vegetables that have flood the win- 

 ter, and been the care of many months, wiih fome of 

 the produces of fpring alfo ; and it is the hope and 

 fruition of reward that fweetens labour : All the fenfes 

 are gratified at this feafon. 



— The foftcning air is balm ; 



And every fenfe and every heart is joy ! 



Thomson. 



MISCELLANEOUS WORK. 



Neatnefs muft be purfued, ftir the ground, rake, &c. 49* 

 Gravel walks and grafs plats, keep in good order, 54. 

 Weeds, deltroy every where, by the hand or hoe, 49, 54. 

 Water, if dry weather, new planted trees, fhrubs, and 



flowers, ftrawberries, cauliflowers, &c. 40, 51. 

 Thim\\ forts of feedling crops enough, and in time, 49. 

 Prick out lettuces, celery, brocoli, booi cole, cauliflowers, 



favoys, cabbages, leeks, &c. 50. 

 Earth up potatoes, peas, beans, cabbages, celery, &c. 49. 

 Tie up forward lettuces, and early cabbages, 211, 2£7. 

 Cucumber plants, give air, water, (hade, train, 185, &c. 

 Hot-beds, make tor cucumbers and melons, 173,189,199. 

 Regulate wall-trees, vines, and prune figs, 1 J;?, 149, 151. 

 Graffs attend to, and repair the claving, &c 84. 

 Thin fruit that is fuperabundant on wall-trees, 146. 

 Beans, top, when in bloflbm, and earth them up, 207. 



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