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2. — Fruits. 



Grub up suckers at the roots of currants, gooseberries, 

 and lilacs. Destroy insects, and scare off birds from the 

 ripening fruit. Alpine strawberries must be watered 

 when necessary. 



3. — Flowers. 



Ranunculuses, out of flower, may be taken up ; and 

 any bulbs not taken up last month. Sweet- Williams, 

 carnations, and pinks, may be struck by pipings or layers; 

 and the roots of polyanthuses, double primroses, and 

 auriculas, may be divided and planted in the last week. 

 Biennial and perennial seedliDgs, sown in March, may be 

 planted out. Cuttings of geraniums, &c., may be struck 

 about the end of the month, to stand the winter. 



VIII.— AUGUST. 

 The warm nights, which now occur in consequence of 

 the heat imbibed last month being evaporated from the 

 ground, render the w-eather uniformly w^armer than in 

 July, though the days are shortening. There is also more 

 dry weather now, and watering, therefore, becomes 

 important, wherever it may be required. 



1. — Kitchen Garden. 



The seeds of onions, or of any other vegetables which 

 are ripe, should be gathered, dried, and cleaned, pre- 

 paratory to their being placed in paper in a dry situation, 

 till they are required for sowing. The bulbs of onions 

 should also be ^taken up as soon as the leaves are 

 withered, and stored in a dry shed for wdnter use. AVelsh 

 onions, for use in spring, may now be sown, and York 

 and Vanack cabbages about the ninth, or, in the neighbour- 

 liood of London, as near as possible to the twenty-fifth of 

 this month. Hoe and thin out turnips, and sow more, 

 as well as radishes, lettuce, mustard and cress, and, in 

 the first or second week, narrow-leaved or rather Flanders 

 broad-leaved spinach. Begin to earth up the first-planted 

 celery and leeks, and plant out some more to come in 

 later. Sow, as in last month, and for the last time, some 

 seed of white turnips, Spanish and turnip radishes, and 

 plant out Savoys and imperial or Yanack cabbages of the 



