430 THE FRUIT-GARDEN. [JULY. 



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

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

 may be clear ; for if these are suffered to remain, they will har- 

 bour 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 trees, 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 or- 

 der to expose the fruit to the sun ; as the sudden exposure would 

 be extremely injurious to them ; by it, their skins would be har- 

 dened 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 pernicious practice, yet it will be proper to 

 cut out irregular and disorderly shoot* ; but this must be done ju- 

 diciously, 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 

 nourishment. 



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 tbe Nursery department, 1 refer you thereto, for information. 



Destroy Wasps, &c. 



Hang up glass phials, filled with honey or sugar water, in dif- 

 ferent parts among the wall, espalier, and standard fruit-trees ; in or- 

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



