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Auguft, 
the fame Method is to be followed, and 
the fame Operations come in Courfe. The leffer 
Fruit-Shrubs are at no Time fo well tranfplanted 
as now; if there come a little Rain. The Cur- 
rant and Goofeberry will take at once, if they 
be water’d, tho’ there fall little or no Wet from 
the Clouds: but the Rafpberry will not do well, 
unlefs it have natural Showers. There is more 
Care requir’d for this little Shrub than is com- 
_ monly allow’d to it; and that is the Reafon fo 
many of the Plantations fucceed poorly. 
The common Writers of Gardening, copy 
from one another the Direction of planting Rafp- - 
but that is too late. | 
Warmth affifts greatly in theirRooting; and upon © 
the firft Succefs depends their future Strength. | 
berries in September ; 
Whenever the End of Auguft is fhowery, as it is 
now; there is no Time fo favourable for this 
Plantation, ~ - | 
Gather the feveral Standard Pears and Ap- 
ples as they ripen. Many of them will not be 
fit for a Month yet to come; but thofe which are 
ripe muft be gathered. The practical Way to 
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try, is this. 
CHAP. 
Of the Care and Management of Fruit-Trees. 
¥ ERE, as in the other Parts of the Ground, - 
OT. 
would do them Harm: but if they hold firm, 
they muft be left till they will part thus eafily. 
More than is thought depends upon the exact 
Time of Gathering; for, if pull’d too foon, 
they never acquire their true Flavour; and, if 
too late, they do not keep well. 
The later Peaches are now advancing toward 
Ripenefs, and they muft be favour’d by a care- 
ful and judicious Hand: their Leaves have hi- 
therto ferved the Purpofe of fheltering and keep- 
ing them moift; but now all fuch as grow clofe 
about them fhould be remov’d. The Sun has 
lefs Power, and the Fruit requires more Heat; 
and lefs Moifture. : 
This is a Time for preparing Strawberry Beds 
for another Year. Leet them be made in a good 
Expofure, and well dug. Let the Soil be a 
rich Loam, and let it be thoroughly broken: 
then let Lines be drawn regularly, at a Foot 
and a half Diftance, and in thefe fet the Straw- 
berry Plants a Foot afunder. Water them well: 
they will take good Root’ before the Frofts. 
come on; and there will be a much larger Pro- 
. Auguft. | 
duce, and of finer Fruit, than in the common © 
Way of Planting. Gardeners act according to 
Gently turn up & few of them, and if they | their Inftructions, and they place them clofer ; 
eafily come off from the Boughs, it is a Proof | their Inftructors have mifled them; and require 
they are ripe. In this Cafe, longer hanging 
Revifal and Amendment in almoft every Article. 
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CHLORITS. the KITCHEN-GARDEN. 
 Produtts of the 
for the Herbage Roots and Fruits of this 
Quarter; and we might, if we followed the ordi- 
nary Writers on this Subject, give a long Lift of 
common Things: but the Herb-woman knows 
without our Information, that Cabbages and Car- 
rots, Parfnips and Potatoes come every Day to 
Market. | 
Thefe Catalogues are the Abufe of Writing; 
Kitchen-Garden now in Seafon. 
“Tee is a. very plentiful Time of the Year | 
ne |e 
and their fole Excufeis, that they have been com- 
piled by thofe who did not know what is its Ute, 
or Merit. | 
Befide thefe, the good Kitchen Ground affords | 
Finochia, now in Perfection ; a Plant not enough 
known in our Country, which we fhall endeavour 
in a fucceeding Number to render more univer. 
{ fal, by direting its right Culture. There are al- 
fo Chardoons, and feveral valuable Melons. _ 
SES Oe BBA ee eB A Be Be a a a a a a a ea eam aw same 
C H’A P, 
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Of the Care and Culture of the Kitchen-Garden. 
PAN HE Operations of the Flower-Garden 
and Seminary, are to be repeated in the 
Kitchen-Quarter, with little Variation, at this Sea- 
fon. The fweet Herbs and Medicinal Plants 
are now to be planted out, and the beft Time is 
when it drips: if the Sky with-holds its Supply, 
the Labour of the Hand muft takes its Place, 
for this Seafon muft not be pafs’d over; Sage 
and Thyme, Rofemary and Lavender, Mint, 
Baum, and Winter Savory, are all now to be 
planted. This early Time will let them. root 
well before Winter, and they will be fecure from 
Dangers! 3: | 
Endive and Lettuce, fown in: earlier Months, 
fhould be now tranfplanted into warm and well 
‘fhelter’d Borders, to ftand thro’ Winter. The 
Endive will be fit to blanch very early, and the 
Lettuces will cabbage foon in Spring. 
Plant forward Beans and early Peafe, chufing 
a warm Situation, and deep g00d Ground. Te 
will be worth while alfo to put fome Carrot-Seed 
into the Ground. Obferve, that it muft be weeded 
as the Plants grow up, and they muft be pull’dup | 
to proper Diftances. If they furvive the Winter 
they will come early to Perfection: but all de-- 
pends upon their ftanding diftant and clear, 
otherwife they will be Threads, though of their : 
full Length, — | 
EDEN: 
