bi FRUITS, FLOWERS AND SHRUBS. 



times a week ; they will be nt to plant out in July and 

 August, and ht for use next fall and spring. 



CARDOOJVS. 



Those which were sown before this time must be 

 thinned if they stand too close ; prick some plants into 

 a nursery bed, four or five inches apart, and leave 

 the remainder at the same distance. - 



Basil and other sweet herbs may be planted this 

 month in rich light earth, in rows a foot asunder, the 

 plants six inches apart. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



This month continual care and attention is required 

 to destroy vv^eeds, and iur dry weather to water your 

 crops often, particularly, keep plants, lately planted, 

 watered frequently. Well water^s not fit for this pur- 

 pose without previous exposure to the sun twenty-four 

 hours. Pond and ditch water is the best, not only be- 

 cause it is in a temperature congenial to the eartli, 

 but because it contains a* quality nutritious to the 

 plants. Some crops that stand close, must be weed- 

 ed before the weeds acquire much growth, and that 

 by hand ; those which stand far asunder may be done 

 with the hoe. 



ESPALIER FRUIT TREES. 



Apples, pears, plumbs and cherries will now re- 

 quire pruning and training — cut off useless ill-growing 

 shoots that cannot be trained— also superfluous shoots 

 for which you have not room — train the remainder 

 their full length because the fruit is produced in 

 greater abuadance towards the extremities ; however, 

 where wood is wanted, or likely to be wanted next 

 year, shorten s©me good shoot that they may produce 

 the wood wanted (see directions in January.) Apricots, 

 peaches and nectarines will also require pruning and 

 training this months in the same manner as apples, 



