WEEKLY CALENDARIAL REGISTER. 123 



August 6th. If the weather be hot and dry, supply 

 the border with liquid manure. To prevent this from 

 being, to any extent, lost by evaporation, draw drills 

 about eighteen inches or two feet apart, and a couple 

 of inches deep ; and along these pour the manure, hold- 

 ing the spout of the watering-pot, with the rose taken 

 off, close to the bottom of them, that the liquid may 

 not wash the earth into a cream-like consistence, in 

 which case it would cake together, and intercept the 

 rays of the sun in passing through the surface to the 

 roots. When sufficient has been poured into one drill, 

 rake the earth over it; and proceed in like manner till 

 the whole border be manured. This operation, which 

 should be done in the latter part of the day as soon as 

 the sun has ceased shining on the border, may, if the 

 state of the weather require it, be repeated every two 

 or three days, from the time the fruit is first set until 

 it becomes ripe, and it will be found very beneficial in 

 promoting the swelling of the berries. 



August 12th. As the berries are now rapidly in- 

 creasing in size, the thinning of them must be attend- 

 ed to every seven days, and if oftener, the better. 

 This is rendered necessary, in consequence of the 

 unequal manner in which they sometimes swell . If 

 the berries on any given bunch be thinned, so that the 

 remaining ones are all equal in size, it will generally 

 be found, on inspecting it five or six days afterwards, 

 that many of them have remained, in point of size, 

 stationary ; while others have grown, perhaps, twice 

 as large as when previously thinned. In consequence 

 of this the bunches require frequent examination, in 

 order that all such berries as thus appear, by their in- 

 ferior size, to have been deprived of their portion of 

 nourishment may, as speedily as possible, be cut out. 

 The oftener this is attended to, the more rapidly will 

 the remaining berries increase in size, and the finer 



