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may be laid in small pots with a stone or peg to fix 

 them, and -will root directly. Continue to take off all 

 Strawberry runners not required to form plants. 

 After three years, Strawberry beds cease to pay, and 

 should be broken up and the ground trenched for 

 Winter crops. Attend to budding Cherries, Apricots, 

 Plums, Peaches, Nectarines, and other trees, as the 

 stocks are in proper condition, and the buds are fit. 

 Wherever the apple grub appears, a bandage of bag- 

 ging or other material should be placed round the 

 stems of the trees for the insect to take shelter under 

 as soon as it leaves the fruit ; these bandages should 

 be examined periodically, and replaced after the con- 

 tents have been destroyed ; two boards or shingles 

 laid on the ground at intervals underneath the trees 

 where the fruit is falling will attract them, as they 

 accept the first convenient shelter that offers. Many 

 of the moths may be captured by the attraction of a 

 light on calm, dark evenings and nights; it is simply 

 neglect of these and other means of destruction that 

 has permitted the insect to increase to such a serious 

 extent. 



KITCHEN GARDEN, 



The Kitchen Garden requires now a general 

 clearance of plots that have borne peas, beans, &c., 

 all dry stalks and weedy stubble burned, and the 

 ground forked over and manure put on if necessary. 

 All winter crops will do better in ground well 

 dug even if not manured than with a mere scratch- 

 ing of the surface. Where there is much demand for 

 potting composts,, the Kitchen garden will supply 

 useful material for the muck-pit, which is a more 

 economical method in the long run than the burning of 



