440 THE FRUIT GARDEN. [July. 



to the wall or espalier at regular distances, and in their due posi- 

 tion. Never pull oil' any leaves nor thin the branches in order to 

 expose the fruit to the sun, as the sudden exposure would be ex- 

 tremely injurious to them; by it their skins would be hardened and 

 contracted, and their growth greatly retarded. Though I am not 

 fond of using the knife too freely at this season, which is a very 

 common and pernicious practice, yet it will be proper to cut out 

 irregular and disorderly shoots, but this must be done judiciously, 

 and an abundant supply of young wood left for the winter pruning, 

 particularly on the peaches, nectarines, figs, apricots, and morella- 

 cherries, which generally bear their fruit on the preceding year's 

 wood: the apricot bears on fruiting-spurs likewise. 



Pick oft' all punctured and decaying fruit and give them to the 

 hogs; also such as have fallen in that state from the trees; for the 

 worms that are in these fruit, which have been the cause of their 

 decline, will soon arrive at their fly or winged state, and attack, the 

 remaining fruit. 



Look carefully over the fruit trees which have been grafted last 

 spring or budded in the former season, and suffer no shoots from 

 the stocks to remain, for these will rob the grafts of their nourish- 

 ment. 



Budding or Inoculating. 



Budding may be performed on some kinds of fruit trees about 

 the middle of this month, but as that subject is fully treated of in 

 the nursery department, I refer you thereto for information. 



Destroy Wasps, $c. 



Hang up glass phials filled with honey or sugar water in dif- 

 ferent parts among the wall, espalier, and standard fruit trees, in 

 order to destroy wasps, ants, &c, which would otherwise infest and 

 devour the choice fruit; by the sweetness of the water they are 

 tempted into the phials and frequently drowned; but these should 

 be hung before the fruit begins to ripen, for then the insects would 

 be much sooner tempted to the water than after' having tasted the 

 fruit: where a sufficient number of glasses are placed in time, pro- 

 perly attended to, and the water occasionally renewed, very little 

 damage is done by these insects. 



Clean the Borders, <$-c. 



Hoe and clean the ground about your espalier and wall trees, for 

 if weeds are permitted to grow at this season, they will rob the trees 

 of a great portion of their nourishment: cut oft' all suckers which 

 arise from the roots of the trees, as they are produced, for these are 

 robbers and would injure them much if suffered to remain. 



