CALENDARIAL INDEX. 303 



MAY. 



You may now sow most or all the articles mentioned in the Calendar for the 

 last month, either as first or succession-crops. Plant your cucumbers, 82, and 

 melons, 198, for a general crop in the open ground about the 20th ; also, squash- 

 es, pumpkins, and gourds ; likewise, Indian corn for an early garden crop, 

 164. Plant your bush-beans and pole-beans, for your principal crop, at any 

 time when most convenient during the month, 36. It is recommended to set 

 the poles, and then plant the beans Found the poles. Weed and thin your ad- 

 vancing crops of radishes, 261. Transplant radishes for seed, 262. Sow suc- 

 cession-crops of spinach, 282. Carrot i maybe sown in tKe Eastern States in 

 the forepart of the month, 68. Weed and thin beets, carrots, parsneps, onions, 

 early turnips. Sow more turnips of the early kinds for crops in succession. 

 Such sowing is best performed in the first week of the month, in order that the 

 roots may have time to grow to a good size before they are overtaken by sum- 

 mer heat and drought. Early cauliflower plants, as they advance in growth, 

 should have earth drawn up about their stems, and be watered in dry weather. 

 You will do well to sow peas for succession-crops, at least twice this month, 226. 

 You may set ouvor transplant early lettuce. Sow as many of the sorts of small 

 salading as you may need for market or family consumption. Now is, per- 

 haps, as proper a time as any in the year for pruning truit-trees, 257. The 

 season for pruning is immediately before, or commensura' ' with, the rising of 

 the sap. Let vour ducks have constant employment as vermin pickers, 102. 

 Attack insects t>y sprinkling over them, by means of a syringe, watering-pot, 

 or garden engine, simple water, soap-suds, decoctions of tobacco, of elder, 

 &c. &c. 169. 



JUNE. 



Melons and cucumbers, which have hitherto been protected by glasses or pa- 

 per frames, may now be exposed to the open air. If the season DC at all dry, 

 your vegetables, particularly your cucumbers, will need water, [bee Intro- 

 duction.? Keep your crops clean, by hand-weeding and hoeing, as directed 

 page 158. About the last of the month, you may sow crops of melons and cu- 

 cumbers for pickling. Thin forward melon plants, leaving only two or three in 

 a hill, 201. Attend to your cabbage and cauliflower plants, as well as your 

 beans, &c. and see that they are not destroyed by the cut worm. " If you 

 perceive any plants injured, open the earth at the foot of the plant, and you 

 will never fail to find the worm at the root, within four inches."* Kill him, and 

 you will save not only the other plants of your garden, but probably many thou- 

 sands in future years." Hoe and bush your late peas ; plant more potatoes, 

 succession-crops of kidney beans, 36, peas, 226, small salads and lettuce every 

 week or ten days. " Thin out and earth up all your plants ; remembertliat 

 frequent hoeing is both rain and manure to your vegetables in dry weather." 

 Celery plants may now be planted out in trenches, 7*. When the plants have 

 grown to the height of eight or ten inches, draw earth about them, breaking it 

 fine. This should be done in dry weather, being careful not to bury the heart. 

 Plant out cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, &c. in moist or cloudy weather, but 

 not when the ground is wet and heavy, 61. Cut and dry such herbs as have 

 come to maturity, for winter use. You may as well dry and pulverize some 

 kinds, as directed p. 205. Look over your grafted trees, and vou may ascer- 

 tain whether the scion has united with the stock. Take ofT the ilay, and loosen 

 the bandages of such grafts as have succeeded, and tie weak grafts and dan- 

 gling shoots from budded slocks to neat stakes. Rub oflfall superfluous, irregu- 

 lar, or ill placed shoots or suckers. Where your fruit-trees appear to be over- 

 loaded with fruit, pick off a part, and carefully gather all that which has fallen 

 and give to your swine, in order to destroy the curculio, 176. 



