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are bearing, to protect them from a fly or gnat very destructive 

 to the young fruit. Rain this month about nine inches, Ther- 

 mometer from seventy-six to ninety degrees. 



AUGUST. 



The weather still very hot during the whole of this month, 

 but as there is generally much rain, all vegetables grow fast. 

 Those now coming, and in season, are 



EUROPE VEGETABLES. French-beans, peas,* cabbage-sprouts, 

 spinage, celery, lettuce, turnips, and cucumbers. 



NATIVE VEGETABLES of all sorts, gourds, chillies, radishes, &c. 



FRUITS. Oranges, custard-apples, limes, figs, jamoon, plan- 

 tains, pumplemose, pine-apples, &c. 



Obs. Sow vegetable seeds as last month ; plant out your cab- 

 bages from the nursery beds, also beet and celery. Trim and 

 cut blackberries ; put down cuttings of every description requir- 

 ed, shading them from the sun during the day by mats or other- 

 wise, and take care that rain is never allowed to lodge in the 

 beds. Weed all your plants carefully earthing up such as re- 

 quire it; and during the mornings and evenings burn all the 

 rubbish you can collect, as directed last month for the orange 

 trees. Apples begin now to blossom. Towards the end of the 

 month, prepare your strawberry beds for putting down the first 

 stock of runners. 



The average rain this month is from nine to twelve inches. 

 The Thermometer as last. 



SEPTEMBER. 



The weather is still warm and close, the same as last month. 

 Native vegetables are now brought into the market in great 

 abundance ; and about Poona, some grapes, but green and only 

 fit for tarts these are from their second crop. 



EUROPE VEGETABLES procurable are knolkhol, peas, French- 

 beans, white beet tops, spinage, radishes, lettuce, turnips, small 



* Peas sown the latter end of this month, and during the next, do not 

 bear so abundantly ; the stalks get mildewed in the latter end of the rains. 



