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hand-glasses six weeks ago, and place them in a mild 

 hotbed, or under hand-glasses again, until their roots 

 take. 



Gather seeds as they ripen, which in most cases will 

 be when the upper part of the pod is brown ; if they 

 be left longer, they become loosened from the calyx, 

 and if light they are in danger of being blown away 

 by the wind. Dry them in the sun, and then put 

 them into paper bags, in a place perfectly free from 

 dampness. 



Fruit Garden, — Attend to the summer pi-uning of 

 the fruit-trees, shortening leaders and side shoots 

 according to the peculiarities of the tree. Thin grapes^ 

 and prune superfluous shoots. If mildew seizes on 

 any of the trees, dust them with flour of sulphur. 



Make fresh plantations of strawberries, which ought 

 indeed to be changed from one compartment to an- 

 other every four years ; prepare the ground well for 

 them, putting in dung ; then draw your line, and with 

 the fingers put down strong runners in rows from two 

 and a half to three and a half feet apart, according to 

 the sort of strawberry, and twelve or sixteen inches 

 asunder in the rows ; give a good watering. You 

 may, for the first year, sow onion seed or salading 

 between the rows. 



Kitchen Garden. — Tie up celery for blanching, 

 and mould up gradually and closely. Bend down the 

 tops of early-sown onions with the back of a rake, to 

 make the bulbs swell. Take up what remains of 

 autumn-sown Strasburgh onions, potatoe-onions, shal. 

 lots, and garlic, when their leaves become yellowish. 

 Sow cauliflower seed for next year's early crop, 

 to be pricked out next month under frames or in 

 a warm border, and regulate the period of sowing 

 by the nature of the soil, which, if tenacious, should 

 be sown earlier than if light and porous. Sow red 

 cabbage seed, and other kinds, and the stone-turnip, 



