GARDENING 



bending in the leaves over the flowers, 

 which will now be forming: water these 

 plants well, making a trench, or basin, 

 For that purpose : transplant cauliflowers, 

 and sow for a Michaelmas crop. Sow 

 brocoli, borecole, beans, peas, &c. and 

 stick the peas which are ready ; top off 

 your blossoming beans ; sow endive, for 

 an early crop, propagate pot-herbs and 

 aromatics by cuttings, &c Support seed- 

 ling plants, prick out celery, and sow 

 ome, also some radishes; thin your 

 cardoons, and weed with diligence : if 

 the weather proves dry, water liberal- 

 ly- 



In the Fruit-garden. Look to your wall 

 trees, protect from birds, and insects, 

 which by the end of the month will be 

 pecking at your early fruits; trim the 

 shoots and leaves of all fruit-trees, to allow 

 the fruit sun and air, but without scorch- 

 ing ; thin your wall-fruit where too close 

 or abundant ; destroy snails, keep your 

 borders clean, fumigate, to kill small in- 

 sects, water new planted trees ; clear 

 away superfluous clusters from your vines, 

 look to your strawberries, watering them 

 amply ; examine grafted trees. 



In the Flower-garden. Be attentive to 

 your bulbous flowers, take up such as 

 have lost their leaves, and lay them to 

 season ; your carnations will require 

 care, trim off all puny flowers ; your 

 tender annuals must be again removed 

 to a fresh hot-bed ; those sown last 

 month may now be pricked out : the less 

 tender may be set out into open spaces, 

 if the weather is warm, choosing moist 

 weather for that operation. You may sow 

 hardy annuals, and propagate double flow- 

 ers by slips : preserve seedling bulbs 

 from too great heat. When your auriculas 

 have done flowering, remove them to the 

 open air; plant tuberoses for the next 

 year, transplant perennial flowers, and 

 sow some of their seeds ; destroy weeds, 

 mow your lawns, and keep your gravel 

 walks perfectly clean. 



In the Nursery. Water seedlings, and 

 shade them, if hot weather ; propagate 

 evergreens by layers, and look over your 

 grafts. 



In the Green-house. A free circulation 

 should be allowed, and the plants be 

 gradually introduced to the open air ; re- 

 move decayed parts, and shift into larger 

 vessels where wanted ; water freely, and 

 propagate by layers and cuttings. 



In the Hot-house. Your pines will want 

 water often, and fresh air occasionally ; 

 ou must look to your exotics, and 



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propagate by seeds, cuttings, suckers, 

 &c. 



Kitchen-garden. Your melons must be 

 protected from excessive heat by mats 

 over the glasses, which they will no\y 

 bear to be well raised, water them and 

 your cucumbers; all under bell-glasses 

 should have free range; thin out the 

 gerkin plants, leaving four in each hole, 

 setting out the rest as before directed 

 into ridges, &c. You may yet sow for 

 pickling ; transplant celery into trenches 

 for blanching, also endive ; set out let- 

 tuces, and sow more seed ; sow radishes, 

 and small salading ; prick out cauliflow- 

 ers, and pay attention to those now get- 

 ting forward, save some seed from the 

 best heads ; sow a full crop of turnips for 

 autumn; weed and loosen about your 

 carrots and parsnips, also your beets ; 

 thin and clear your onions ; transplant 

 leeks, brocoli, and borecole ; plant kid- 

 ney and running beans ; sow peas and 

 beans for late crops, and a full crop of 

 cabbages and savoys for winter. Cut 

 no asparagus after this month ; plant 

 pot-herbs, gather mint, plant out cap- 

 sicum, love-apples, and basil ; water 

 freely every where ; weed carefully, set 

 out cardoons for blanching; sow spinach 

 and radishes ; and keep your manure 

 compact, so as not to be injured by the 

 heat. 



In the Fruit-garden. Keep your wall- 

 fruit clean from insects, and guard against 

 birds ; thin the sets where too numerous. 

 Where apple, pear, plum, &c. trees 

 have made shoots, regulate them duly, 

 taking off all that would be superfluous 

 close to the stems; new planted trees 

 should be examined, and eventually 

 watered. Look over your vines again ; 

 towards the end of the month you may 

 bud, or inoculate some fruit trees. Clear 

 your strawberry beds from svickers, and 

 set out where you want new beds, or to 

 supply vacancies. Destroy snails, and 

 scare birds. 



In the Flower-garden Transplant hardy 

 annuals, water tender annuals ; some 

 quick flowers may yet be sown, to blow 

 in autumn ; take up the bulbs that are 

 past flowering, transplant Guernsey and 

 Belladonia lily roots, propagate fibrous 

 rooted plants, transplant seedlings, look 

 to your carnations and pinks, both old and 

 seedlings, lay them, as also double flow- 

 ers of various kinds, propagate by pip- 



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