152 The Gardeners Kalendar. May. 



one reafon, why rain is much more effectual 

 than artificial watering : but thefe waterings 

 flhould be always performed in the evening, 

 after the heat of the day is over, that the water 

 may have time to foak down to the roots, and 

 the moifture may be dried off from the leaves 

 by the morning fun ; for when this is done in 

 the morning, the heat of the fun coming upon 

 the trees foon after, the leaves are frequently 

 fcalded thereby, the fpherical drops of water, 

 which remain on their furfacc, caufing the rays 

 of the fun to converge to a focus meeting in a 

 point. 



Keep the borders about your fruit trees clear 

 from weeds, and alfo from all flrong-growing 

 plants, which will exhauft the goodnefs of the 

 foil, to the great prejudice of your trees; and 

 this fhould alfo be carefully pbferved in the 

 nurfery, for the fame reafon. 



About the middle of this month you muifl: 

 look over your vineyard Grapes, taking off all 

 dangling Ihoots, and flop thofe which have 

 fruit upon them, which muft now be faftened 

 to the ftakes, to prevent their being broken by 

 winds j but the (hoots for the next year's bear- 

 ing mull: be trained upright to the ftakes, and 

 not flopped until the end of the next month, or 



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