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horse and cultivator in motion seasonbly 

 among your nursery rows. Brush off and 

 destroy caterpillars, early in the morning and 

 in wet days. Attend also to your ornamental 

 trees, plants, and flower-beds. 

 . 

 JUNE. 



Cultivate around your trees in grass-ground. 

 Finish the uncompleted work of last month. 

 Thin out overbearing fruit-trees. Train 

 grape-vines. Make war upon weeds every 

 where. Cut off the blight from pear-trees, 

 and the black-knot from plum-trees. Exam- 

 ine for borers in apple trees, &c., &c. Keep 

 down robber-shoots on your grafted stocks. 

 We may add, though the remark does not 

 properly belong here, that evergreen orna^ 

 mental trees may be successfully transplanted 

 during the last week of last month, and the 

 first ten days of this. If they suifer much 

 loss of root in the operation, mulch them, and 

 trim their tops, by shortening-in uniformly all 

 the limbs except the top or leader. This lat- 

 ter, once cut off or broken, can with difficuU 

 ty be restored again, even on a small tree. 



JULY. 

 Continue your warfare upon weeds, training 



