160 CALENDAR AND INDEX. 



SEPTEMBER. 



The Peach and the Pear tree have still ample store, 

 And the Plum, most inviting, " makes urchins adore j w 

 A bountiful feast is spread over the land, 

 For great is the Giver, unsparing His hand. 



PLANTATIONS of Strawberries may be made this month, 

 either with runners or seedling plants, 137. 



Protect your Grapes and other fruit from wasps and other 

 insects ; either decoy them with honey or sugared water, or 

 hang nets over the fruit ; some take the trouble of putting 

 the bunches into crape or paper bags. 



Grape Vines and espalier trees in general should be 

 attended to, as directed in the previous summer months ; 

 by depriving them of all useless shoots and suckers, training 

 in those branches intended for the next year's bearers, and 

 destroying the eggs of insects, curled leaves, &c., 85. 



Stone fruit, which will now be continually ripening, 

 should be gathered while in full perfection, and not suffered 

 to get over-ripe, so as to lose its peculiar flavour. 



Ground allotted for the planting of fruit trees and vines 

 the coming autumn, should be prepared this month, by dig- 

 ging, trenching, and manuring, where necessary, 8. 



With a view to conquer the various kinds of insects and 

 reptiles, persevere in the use of the remedies recommended 

 last month. Gather up all fruit which falls from the trees, 

 or turn geese enough into the orchard to eat it up, by 

 which means the reptiles and their food are devoured at 

 once. Hogs are the best scavengers, but they are too apt 

 to do injury by rooting; they may, however, be let into the 

 orchard a few hours each day, and watched, 13 and 124. 



Besides the ingredients already recommended, there are 

 others which may be used in various ways. Some may be 

 dissolved in a hogshead allotted for the purpose, which on 

 being kept filled with water, makes a solution well calculated 

 to sprinkle on the leaves of trees, by means of a syringe or 



