466 THE ORCHARD. THE VINEYARD. [JULY 



DESTROY WASPS, ETC. 



Hang up glass phials filled with honey or sugar water in different 

 parts among the wall, espalier, and standard fruit-trees, in order to 

 destroy wasps, ants, &c., which would otherwise infest and devour 

 the choice fruit; by the sweetness of the water, they are tempted 

 into the phials, and frequently drowned ; but these should be hung 

 before the fruit begins to ripen, for then the insects would be mueh 

 sooner tempted to the water than after having tasted the fruit : where 

 a sufficient number of glasses are placed in time, properly attended 

 to, and the water occasionally renewed, very little damage is done by 

 these insects. 



CLEAN THE BORDERS, ETC. 



Hoe and clean the ground about your espalier and wall trees, for 

 if weeds are permitted to grow at this season, they will rob the trees 

 of a great portion of their nourishment ; cut off all suckers which 

 arise from the roots of the trees as they are produced, for these are 

 robbers, and would injure them much if suffered to remain. 



THE ORCHARD. 



Little remains to be done during this month in the orchard, but to 

 feast on its delicious productions : however, it will be very proper to 

 pick and carry away all decayed and fallen fruit, for the reasons as- 

 signed in the fruit garden for this month. Should any of the trees 

 show canker or much gum, you may now cut out the decayed part 

 clean to the fresh wood, and give it a dressing of the medicated tar 

 prescribed on page 58, giving this medication a due consistence as 

 there directed, to prevent its melting away by the heat of the wea- 

 ther; or you may apply Mr. Forsyth's composition, for which see 

 page 235. 



Where it can be done without injury, it would be of use to turn 

 pigs into the orchard at this season to eat up the fallen, decayed 

 fruit, and, consequently, to destroy the numerous brood of insects 

 contained therein. 



THE VINEYARD. 



In the middle States the grapes are generally set or formed about 

 the first week of this month ; when all the loose hanging shoots are 

 to be neatly tied up to the stakes, and the useless weak growths, 

 as well as the suckers arising from the roots and lower parts of the 



