412 CALENDAR — AUGUST. 



Great attention must now be paid to cleaning in every 

 department, weeds springing up after every shower. 



AUGUST. 



In the Kitchen Garden, sow winter and spring spi- 

 nach in the beginning and about the middle of the 

 month ; parsely and winter onions, for a full crop in 

 the first week ; cabbages, cauliflower, savoys, and Ger- 

 man greens, about the middle of the morith, for plant- 

 ing out in spring; lettuce in the first and last week; 

 small salads occasionally; black Spanish, red and white 

 queen radish, for winter crops. 



Plant and earth up celery and endive. Plant &traw- 

 berries. A few coleworts many still be put in. 



Fruit Garden. — Proceed in the training and regu- 

 lation of summer shoots of all fruit-trees, as directed 

 for the last three months. Attend to the thinning of 

 the fruit where necessary. Mat up, in dry weather, 

 gooseberry and currant-bushes, to preserve the fruit 

 till late in the autumn. Every exertion must now be 

 used by the gardeners to preserve the ripening fruit on 

 the walls from insects, and destroy wasp nests. 



Forcing. — The same routine of cultivation in hot- 

 beds and pits may be proceeded in as stated for last 

 month. Sow, and propagate by cuttings, in the begin- 

 ning of the month, cucumbers, to be afterwards grown 

 in hot-water pits, or in boxes in the front of the pine- 

 stove, for a winter crop. In the pinery, most of the 

 fruit will be cut by the middle of the month, when a 

 general shifting of succession-plants should take place ; 

 as also a pottiijg of suckers; but these will be strength- 

 ened by being allowed to remain on the old plant until 



