200 7he Gardeners Kalendar. June* 

 dry weather, to encourage them to fet their 

 fruit s and the earth on the furface of their tubs 

 and pots fhould be ftirred, and fome rotten 

 Beats dung laid rhereon, railing it round the 

 outfide of the tubs or pots, fo as to make an 

 hollow to contain the water 3 but you fliould 

 never Fay any new dung upon the pots, nor put 

 any fheep or deer dung into the water to enrich 

 it, as is by 100 many perfons pradifed, to the 

 great prejudice of tiieir trees ; for thefe ftrongly 

 impregnated waters, inftead of affording nou- 

 riihm.ent to the trees, caufe their leaves to 

 change to a pale yellow colour, and the trees 

 are apt to flower out of the proper feafon, which 

 renders them weak, and many times dcftroys 

 them in two or three years time. The beft 

 water for thefe trees is fuch as is taken from 

 rivers, or ponds, where it is fully expofed to 

 the fun and air; fo that if you have no other 

 than fpring or well water, it fhould always b€ 

 expofed to the fun and air two or three days 

 before it is ufed. You muft alfo gather off 

 the flowers as they blow% leaving but few up- 

 on each tree for fruit; and thofe only upon the 

 ftrongeft branches, and where they are beft 

 fituated to ftand. 



Plant cuttings of Myrtles in a bed of light 

 rich earth, obferving to water and fhade thera 



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