m FRUITS, FLOWERS AND SHRUBS,^ 



FIGS. 



Pull green fall fruit — tie the branches of espalie-p 

 fig trees, and shelter the trees with mats or fttraw 

 :^pes in severe weather. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Early this month plant and dress strawberries as 

 directed last month, if neglected then — but it is rathe? 

 late for planting, 



WALNUTS AND FILBERTS. 



Plant walnuts and filberts, th« former thirty to 

 ferty feet apart, the latter from fifteen to twenty— 

 Filberts should be trained to a stem about five feet 

 high. They may be propagated by layers from treoe 

 Ehat branch low on the stem. 



. MEDLARS, QUINCES AND MULBERRIES. 



Plant these trees this month — medlars and quirr» 

 ^ees about fifteen feet apart, mulberries about twelve 

 Met apart. 



PLANTING IN GENEKiL. 

 This is a favourable month for planting trees in 

 general, and therefore it may be necessary to rer 

 peat that young trees and shrubs should be taken 

 up with their full spread of roots — the long strag- 

 gling ones should be pruned off, and the holes to 

 receive the plants made large enotigh to receive the 

 roots without compressing them ; the holes should 

 be loosened at the bottom, and the plants gently sha- 

 ken whea the holes are filling with earth, that it 

 may close round the small roots — tread the earth 

 after the holes are filled, and before severe weather 

 comes, throw some dung or litter about the stems> 

 to keep frost from the roots — be careful to place 

 tho plants upright, and the uppermost roots n^t^ 



