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KALEXDAR. 



Fruit Garden. — Look to your grafts, and take off or loosen the 

 bandages as wanted, disbud or take off with your finger and thumb the 

 foreright and superfluous young shoots of wall-trees : thin the fruit set 

 on the apricots, peaches, and nectarines ; nail in the vines as soon as 

 possible. Caterpillars luill 710W le hatching . Water new-planted trees if 

 necessary, keep young stocks and seedlings clear in the nursery 3 if 

 troubled with insects, water or rather pelt wall-trees with strong lime 

 or tobacco water, or fumigate them with a bellows. Look over newly- 

 budded and grafted trees, and rub off all the shoots that arise from the 

 stock, below the bud of the graft. Water strajvberries. 



Flower Garden. — Weed, hoe, and set out, to their proper distances, 

 seedlings just come up ; at about the middle or end of the month sow- 

 again, for succession, larkspurs, mignonette, ten-week and wallflower- 

 leaved stock, minor convolvuhis, Virginia stock, propagate by slips, 

 cuttings, and layers, double wallflowers, pinks, sweet-williams, rockets, 

 scarlet lychnis, &C.3 thin seedlings soon to prevent their being drawn 

 up spindling ; pot out tender annuals, freely give air to plants in the 

 frames as the weather permits. Shift and tie potted plants that need 

 it ; keep all clean, remove auriculas in pots to a north-east aspect : 

 take up bulbous and tuberous roots as their leaves decay. Keep the 

 gravel-walks and grass in neat trim. 



Forcing Ground. — Continue the grapery at the same heat j as the 

 fruit swells, thin the berries of the bunches with scissors: water the 

 vines with drainings of a dung-hill. Less heat and covering will now 

 be required for cucumbers and melons, and more air and water re- 

 quired ; ridge out cucumbers under hand-glasses : water mushroom 

 beds, if dry. 



Green-House. — Air and water abundantly ; towards the middle of 

 the month remove the more hardy plants oat into their summer 

 stations, let the rest follow as occasion offers ; very tender ones may 

 still remain. Shift and propagate as before, bring in tender annuals 

 from the frames. 



JUNE. 



Kitchen Garden. — Sow kidney-beans, pumpkins, tomattos, cole- 

 worts for a supply of young winter greens : under the name of j^Zan^s they 

 are sold nearly all the year round, in the London vegetable markets. Cu- 

 cumbers for pickling, this is indeed the safest and perhaps the best time 

 for sowing this article. It is so tender that it can but seldom stand the 

 natural air in this climate till this month, many of the London market 

 gardeners sow from two to twenty acres j their method is to sow it in 



