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This engine may be conveniently used for watering different parts 

 of the garden in dry weather. 



WATERING NEW PLANTED TREES. 



The new planted fruit-trees will now be greatly benefited by occa- 

 sional watering, which should always be given in the morning, and 

 frequently over the branches, as well as about their roots ; this will 

 be of great service in washing off any dust and filth which their 

 leaves may have contracted, and in opening their pores for the re- 

 ception of the atmospheric moisture. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Watering at this season will be extremely salutary to straw- 

 berries, by causing their fruit to set and swell freely; let it not be 

 given over the plants, but between them, lest it should wash off the 

 fecundating pollen from the flowers, and thereby prevent their setting 

 fruit. 



In those beds where the plants are kept apart from one another, 

 and the fruit required in the greatest perfection, the young advanc- 

 ing runners should be trimmed off, to encourage the bloom and en- 

 large the fruit ; but when a supply of those are wanted for forming 

 new plantations, a sufficiency must be left for that purpose. 



The edgings of strawberries, round beds or borders, &c., should be 

 kept within due bounds, by occasionally cutting away their advancing 

 runners. 



NEWLY GRAFTED AND BUDDED TREES. 



For the treatment of such trees as were grafted in the preceding 

 months, or budded last summer or autumn, see the Nursery for this 

 month. 



THE IMPOSTOR'S GRAFT. 



Mention is made by Pliny, of a tree in the garden of Lucullus, at 

 Tivoli, which is described in his Natural History. On the trunk of 

 one tree he saw branches which produced pears, others figs, apples, 

 plums, olives, almonds, grapes, &c. ; but he adds, that this wonder- 

 ful tree did not live long. Even at the present day, the gardeners 

 of Italy, especially of Genoa, Florence, and Rome, sell plants of 

 jasmines, roses, honeysuckles, &c., all growing together from a stock 

 of orange, or myrtle, or pomegranate, on which they say they are 

 grafted. But this is a deception, the fact being that the stock has 

 its centre bored out, so as to be made into a hollow cylinder, through 

 which the stems of jasmines and other flexible plants are easily made 

 to pass, their roots intermingling with those of the stock. After 

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