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should be netted over to preserve them from birds. 

 Let this be done carefully, and as directed in April 

 for screening wall-trees from frost ; that is, in so 

 far as regards setting the nets properly out with 

 hooked sticks. Cherries on espaliers, and also on 

 standards, may be preserved from birds, by pro- 

 perly suspending large nets over the trees; keeping 

 them close fastened down to the ground with pegs, 

 or by laying stones or bricks on their edges. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



If the summer pruning of these, as directed last 

 month, has not yet been performed, let it be done 

 without any delay, as the plants will now be run- 

 ning into confusion. If you have any currants, 

 gooseberries or raspberries, on the walls or espaliers, 

 let them also be gone over, be thinned moderately 

 of their summer shoots, and let those left be train- 

 ed in. Continue the waterings of newly-planted 

 bushes of all these ; and of strawberries that are 

 swelling off' their fruit, as directed particularly in 

 May. 



Final thinning of Wall*Fruits. 



THE stoning of apricots, nectarines, peaches and 

 plums will now be over, and the crops of fruit on 



