258 The Gardeners Kalendar. Aug,. 



ing j and if your land is iVifF, the laying of it a 

 month or fix weeks in ridges, before it is plant- 

 ed, will mellow the clods, and render them 

 much eaficr to be broken, than if it was newly 



dug. 



Look carefully to your young feedling trees, 

 to obferve that they do not fufFer by drought, 

 nor that they are over-borne by weeds, which, 

 at this feafon, do foon get up to a confiderablc 

 height. 



Work to be donein the Ple asure-Garden* 



Tranfplant the layers of Carnations, Pinks, 

 and double Sweet Williams, which by this time 

 will have taken root, if timely laid. Thofc 

 choice forts of Carnations, which are defigned 

 for pots, may be planted at this time, each in a 

 fmall halfpenny pot, filled with frelh light earth, 

 and placed in a &ady fituation until they have 

 taken root -, after which they may be removed 

 into a more open fituation, where they may re- 

 main until the end of October, when they 

 iliould be placed under a hot-bed frame; or 

 plunged into an old bark-bed without heat, 

 and arched over with hoops, that they may be 

 covered in winter, to protedt them from hard 

 rains, fnow, and fevere froft ; but they fhould 

 be always opened in mild weather, otherwife 



they 



