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Give water to such plants and crops as require it, but let this be 

 done always in an evening, that it may have time to soak down to 

 the roots before the sun appears to exhale it. 



Earth up your advancing crops of cabbages, and all other plants 

 of that tribe; likewise okra, peas, kidney beans, &c.; this will greatly 

 refresh them, and protect their roots and fibres from the powerful 

 heat of the sun. 



Pull up the stalks of beans, cauliflowers, cabbages, and the haulin 

 of peas and other plants which have done bearing, that the ground 

 may be clear, for if these are suffered to remain, they will harbor 

 vermin to the injury of the adjoining crops. 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



WALL AND ESPALIER TREES. 



In the beginning of this month, you must look carefully over 

 your wall and espalier tress, rubbing off all fore-right shoots, and 

 training in all such regular growths as are designed to remain close 

 to the wall or espalier, at regular distances, and in their due position. 

 Never pull off any leaves, nor thin the branches, in order to expose 

 the fruit to the sun, as the sudden exposure would be extremely 

 injurious to them; by it their skins would be hardened and contracted, 

 and their growth greatly retarded. Though I am not fond of using 

 the knife too freely at this season, which is a very common and per- 

 nicious practice, yet it will be proper to cut out irregular and dis- 

 orderly shoots, but this must be done judiciously, and an abundant 

 supply of young wood left for the winter pruning, particularly on 

 the peaches, nectarines, figs, apricots, and morella-cherries, which 

 generally bear their fruit on the preceding year's wood ; the apricot 

 bears on fruiting-spurs likewise. 



Pick off all punctured and decaying fruit, and give them to the 

 hogs ; also such as have fallen in that state from the trees ; for the 

 worms that are in these fruit, which have been the cause of their 

 decline, will soon arrive at their fly or winged state, and attack the 

 remaining fruit. 



Look carefully over the fruit-trees which have been grafted last 

 spring, or budded in the former season, and suffer no shoots from 

 the stocks to remain, for these will rob the grafts of their nourish- 

 ment. 



BUDDING OR INOCULATING. 



Budding may be performed on some kinds of fruit-trees about the 

 middle of this month, but as that subject is fully treated of in the 

 nursery department, I refer you thereto for information. 



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