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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 much 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 those insects. 



Clean the Borders, &c. 



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 oft' all suckers which 

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

 robbers and would injure them much if suffered to remain. 



THE ORCHARD. 



LITTLE remains to be done during this month in the Or- 

 chard, 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 assigned 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 in page 39, giving this medication a 

 due consistence as there directed, to prevent its melting away by 

 the heat of the weather ; or you may apply Mr. Forsyth's compo- 

 sition, for which see page 217. 



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 f 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 stems, cleared or cut away j but by no means divest 



