AUGUST. ECT. xx* 



Water ditto, as also new sown beds, regularly, 52. 

 Prick out celery, and other things, as winter greens, 



51. 



Earth up peas, beans, kidney beans, celery, c. 50. 

 Blanch endive, beet, chardon, fmochio, 35, 221, 



Dig, or use a strong hoe, between rows of plants, 51. 

 Vacant ground, clean, and prepare for use, 47, 48. 

 Stick peas, and take up the haulm of old crops, 247. 

 Seed plants support, and gather seed as it ripens, 61. 

 Herbs, gather for drying just when in flower, 263. 

 Onions, press down the leaves to the ground, 244. 

 Shalots, garlic!^ rocambole, take up, 259, 236, 273. 

 Grape vines, prune, nail, id keep in due order, 158. 

 Wall-trees, espaliers, climbing shrubs, &c. regulate, 



139. 



Insects about wall-trees, attend to. See blight, June. 

 Wasps, &c. take in trees, by vials of sugar water. 

 Budding may yet be performed, first week, y4. 

 Buds that have taken of former work, unbind, 98. 

 Net fruit trees up, to keep off birds, and also fingers. 

 Gather fruit before the sun has shone long upon it. 

 Mat up currants and gooseberries for late fruit, 173. 

 Strawberries, clear from runners, weeds, leaves, 175. 

 Cucumbers, pumpions, and gourds, train, water, &c. 

 Pickling cucumbers should be gathered twice a week. 

 Melons, prune, train, water sparingly, 207. 



sow 



Cokworts in the first week, 233; cabbages in the 

 second, 224; cauliflowers in the third, 228. Oni- 

 ons, Welsh, a full crop, and a few Strasburgh a 

 warm border, first week, 243. Lettuces, at the 

 beginning, -middle and end of the month, 241. 

 Small saliading, in as hady place, and water it, 270. 

 Chervil and American cress, second week, 



