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Plant and earth up célery and endive. Plant stawberries. 
A few coleworts may still be put in. ° 
Fruit Garden.—Proceed in the training and regulation 
of summer shoots of all fruit-trees, as directed for the last 
three months. Attend to the thinning of the fruit where 
necessary.’ Mat up, in dry weather, gooseberry and cur- 
rant-bushes, to preserve the fruit till late in the autumn. 
Every exertion must now be used by the gardeners to pre- 
serve the. ripening fruit on the walls from aaa and de- 
stroy wasp nests. ty EOE Bi ' 
Forcing.—The same routine of Relation. in hotbeds 
and pits may be proceeded in as stated for last month, 
Sow, and propagate by cuttings, in the beginning of the 
month, cucumbers, to be afterwards grown in hot-water 
pits, or in boxes in the front of the pine-stove, for a winter 
crop. In the pinery, most of the fruit will be cut by the 
middle of the month, when a general shifting of succession- 
plants should take place; as also a potting of suckers; 
but these will be strengthened by being allowed to remain 
omthe old plant untill the end of this month. In the forcing- 
houses where the crops are past, part of the sashes may be 
removed so as to permit thorough ventilation. 
Green-house.—Attend to the propagation of all sorts of 
green-house plants by cuttings, and to the replacing in the 
green-house and stoves the more tender species, by the end 
of the month in ordinary seasons, but in wet weather in 
the second week. Sow half-hardy annuals, as Clarkia, 
Schizanthus, Coreopsis, &c., to flower during winter. Also 
begin to propagate the various species of the half-hardy 
green-house plants, noticed under February, for decorating 
the flower garden in the following summer. 
Flower Garden and Shrubbery.—Sow in the second and 
the last week, on a warm border of a light, sandy soil, with 
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