JUNE.] SMALL FRUIT3. ^Vi 



should be nelteJ over to preserve them from birds. 

 Let this be done carefully, and as directed in April 

 for screening wall-trees from frost; that is, in so far 

 as regards set/ing the nets py^operlij out with hooked 

 sticks. Clierries on espaliers, and also on stand- 

 ards, may be preserved from birds, by properly sus- 

 pending large nets over the trees ; keeping them close 

 fastened dow n to the ground \N^th pegs, or by laying 

 stones or bricks on their edges. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



If the summer pruning of these, as directed last 

 month, has not yet been performed, let it be done 

 Avithout any delay, as the plants will now be running 

 into confusion. If you have any currants, goose- 

 berries, or raspberries, on the walls or espaliers, let 

 them also be gone over ; be thinned moderately of 

 their summer shoots ; and let those left be trained 

 in. Continue the waterings of newly-planted bushes 

 of all these ; and of strawberries that are swelling 

 gIF their fruit, as directed particularly in May. 



fulj. 



Final thinning of Wall-Fruits^ 



1 HE stoning of apricots, nectarines, peaches, and 

 plums, will now be over, and tlie crops of fruit on 



