362 The Nursery. LJuJy^ 



Supporting Floiverlng-plants, 



Continue to ftake and tie up the flems of fuch flower- 

 iiig-plants as ftand in need of fupport. 



There are now many forts that demand that care, and 

 it fhould always be done in due time before the plants are 

 broken by the wiad, or borne down by their own weight. 

 And in ftaking and tying up the different kinds^ obferve, 

 as faid in the laft month, to let every (lake be well pro- 

 portioned to the height of the plant it is to fuppcrt ; for 

 it looks ill to fee the ends of flakes llicking upligh above 

 the plants they fupport. 



Obferve alfo to let the flems of the plants be tied in fe- 

 veral places to the ftake ; and let the tying be done in a 

 neat manner, not fuffering long ragged ends of the tying 

 to hang dangling in light ; this is often difregarded, bu$ 

 it has a flovenly appearance. 



Cutting do-uon decayed Flonjuer-ftems 



Go now and then round the borders, and cut down the 

 ftems of fuch flower plants as aje paft flov/ering. 



But this is now principally to be underilod cf the pCr 

 rennial fibrous rooted plants ; the bloom of many of ^hcfe 

 kinds will now be pafl ; and the ftems fhould always, ac- 

 cording as the flower decays, be (except where feed is 

 wanted) immediately cut down ; then th« plant, though 

 paft flowering, will appear decent. 



Let therefore the decayed ftalks be cut down clofe to 

 the head of the pUnts, and at the fame time clear eaci^ 

 plant from any decayed leaves. 



The Nursery. 



Budding. T>ireiiions for performing that Work* 



BUD apricots, peaches, and netlarine^. This \& now 

 the principal feafon to perform that work, and l«t^ 

 them be budded upon proper flocks. 



There are no flocks fo proper to bud thefe kinds upon 

 as plums, railed principally from the flones of the fruit ; 

 as dircfted in the work of the nuriery for February, 



Majch, 



