66 The Western Pomologist and Gardener. 1872 



montbly Observations on Gardening, (1771 •)— See p. 33. 



June. 



From your Fruit-trees cut off all Bruises, Gums, Stubs of dead "Wood, and cankered 

 Places. Take up the Aneinony Roots, clip the Tops of the Bushes and the Tops of your 

 monthly Rose often in Summer. To increase the Double-Stock-Gilliflower, about this 

 Time, cut off a Slip about five or six Inches long, that is a pretty strong one that never 

 had a flower on it, nor like to have one that Summer ; then turn up the Bark about an 

 Inch, cutting the sides thereof, so as the Bark may stand like the Spokes of a Cart-wheel 

 and cut off the woody Inch, and set it pretty deep in some shady Place, first cutting off 

 the Top to the Bud, and the other Leaves, shading and watering it for a Time ; cut only 

 the longest Tops of your Basp Hedge even with the other. 



July. 



Gather the Seed of Clovegilliflowers, and keep it in the Husk till you sow it in March 

 or August ; and by the Middle of this Month finish the Layering them. Having gathered 

 your Strawberries, cut off all the Leaves after Rain, except the Bed of White and Wood 

 Strawberries, which you may thin and weed at the latter End of March and soon after 

 make a new Bed, by setting the smallest Roots, pressing the Earth very hard to them, 

 that the Worms force them not out ; remembering that they will want watering often, 

 so do Colliflowers, Cucumbers, &c. 



Auffust. 



Sow the first ripe Cabbage-seed, also Coleworts, Turnips, Marygolds, Box Poppies, 

 Spinage, and Lettice ; sow the Seeds of Aureculas or Bears-Ears in a Pot of good Earth, 

 let it stand abroad ; the next Summer plant out the strongest. If the Earth is well soaked 

 with Rain, this is rather a better time than April to take up all the Herbs and Flowers 

 and to dig Horse-Dung therein that is very rotten. Now layer Bays, Lawrel, Rosemary, 

 &c., as is showed of Clovegilliflowers, only instead of cutting that Place of them that is 

 to lie under the Earth, run a blunt Awl three or four trimes through the Place ; In March 

 following you may remove them, if taken Root, or stay till this Month. Clip off all the 

 Stalks and Leaves from your Strawberries, except white, and Parsley, and Sorrel, also 

 your Pot-Herbs ; and new Leaves well soon grow again. 



September. 

 Dig a little Dung into a Bed, and therein set your strongest Cabbage-Plants, about two 

 Inches asunder : water them very well that Evening, and no more ; do so with the Plants 

 of Coleworts, Marygolds, and Lettice; set the Tulip-Root you take out of the Earth 

 thus : With a narrow Trowel make a Hole, then put in a Handful of Sand on which 

 set the Root, and earth it up ; the Sand is to prevent the Root from growing too deep 

 in the Earth. Having cut off the Stalks of your Clovegilliflowers, set little short Sticks 

 and tie them to such Branches as may be beaten flat by Snow or Rain. Gather Apples 

 after full moon. Turnips and Carrots laid in Sand are a good Ballast for Ships at Sea. 



October. 



If you desire a Nursery for the raising of Stocks to graft on, sow the Seed of Crabs, 

 and the Stones of other Fruit, and covering the Beds with Horse-Litter until March; at 

 two Years End pluck up the strongest, and cut off all their Boughs close to their Bodies, 

 and a little off the Tips, and all the strongest Roots close, especially downright Roots ; 

 then by a line and Setting Stick set them near two Feet asunder, and at two Years 

 End many of them may be ready to graft and inoculate on. Gather Fruit in a dry 

 Day. Full moon being past, the Bruises will not so soon rot. They best lie on Shelves 

 in a Closet, where Frost cannot enter in Winter; but if the Apples happen to be frozen, 

 touch them not until the Frost is gone out of them. In the same Closet fix small Lines 

 from one Side to the other, to hang your bunches of Grapes on, being cut off the Vine 

 at the beginning of October; and then prune your Vines, cutting off all the young 

 Branches within two or three inches of the main Branches to keep all winter. Gather 



