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MAY. 



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MAY. 



Let this charming month be ufhered in with due 

 refpeft, by the garden being in excellent order, to 

 which end let no help be fpared, when the gardener is 

 ftot competent to perform the work hirafelf : It is fome- 

 times too much for the rnoft induftrious man. 



We now gather vegetables that have flood the win* 

 fer 9 and been the care of many months, with fome of 

 the produ&s of fpring alfo; and it is the hope and 

 fruition of reward that fweetens labour : All the fenfes 

 are gratified at this feafon* 



— The foftenicg air is balm ; 



And every fenfe and every heart is joy ! 



Thomson. 



MISCELLANEOUS WORK. 



Neatnefs muft be purfued, fUr the ground, rake, &c. 49. 

 Gravel walks and grafs plats , keep in good order, 54. 

 Weeds i deltroy every where, by the hand or hoe, 49, 54. 

 Water, if dry weather, new planted trees, fhrubs, and 



flowers, ftrawberries, cauliflowers, &c. 40, 51. 

 Thin all forts of feedling crop* enough, and in time, 49. 

 Prick out lettuces, celery, brocoli, boorcole, cauliflowers, 



favoys, cabbages, leeks, &c. 50. 

 Earth up potatoes, peas, beans, cabbages,' celery, &c. 49, 

 Tie up forward lettuces, and early cabbages, 211, 227. 

 Cucumber plants, give air, water, (hade, train, 185, &c. 

 riot-beds, make for cucumbers and melons, 173,189,1 99. 

 Regulate wall-trees, vines, and prune figs, 132, 14 9, 15 1. 

 &rajfs attend to, and repair the claying, &c. 84. 

 Thin fruit that is fuperabundant on wall-trees, 146. 

 Beans % top y when in blpffcm, and earth them up, 207, 



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