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be made. Finish the destruction of the curculio, 

 and keep an eye to black-knot, and fire-blight, and 

 the peach worm and borer. 



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EIGHTH MONTH, AUGUST. 



Clean cultivation is to be constantly attended to ; 

 and unfinished work of past month early completed. 

 Apples should be budded early in the month, and 

 peaches from the middle to the end ; and the ban- 

 dages removed as soon as they begin to indent the 

 stock. If the weather is wet, strawberry plants 

 may be set out, and they will become firmly es- 

 tablished before winter. 



NINTH MONTH, SEPTEMBER. 



Strawberry beds should be made as early in the 

 month as practicable ; peach budding, if not finish- 

 ed, should be speedily completed, and all bandages 

 timely removed. Ground may be prepared for 

 transplanting trees, and large holes for their recep- 

 tion may now be made and filled with fertile soil. 



TENTH MONTH, OCTOBER. 



The work of last month may be continued, and 

 transplanting commenced in the latter part of the 

 month. Hardy trees are best removed in autumn ; 

 tender in spring; very small trees should be set 

 out in spring to prevent heaving by frost. Peach 

 and apricot trees if set in autumn on heavy soils, 



