THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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Standard Fruit Trees should be as well attended to as wall fruit trees, but, 
as they are not quite so easily got at, they are mostly neglected, otherwise 
there is no one operation that benefits the wall tree that would not also 
benefit the standard, whose fruit would be very nearly as large and better 
flavoured. 
Stringing Fruit Trees. — This is of the greatest service, not only in dis- 
lodging vermin of all kinds, but cleaning and refreshing the trees. 
Vines should be looked over, and the shoots stopped at the first or second 
joint beyond the fruit ; clear them of all useless shoots ; and see that the others 
are nailed properly. 
Strawberries in Flower will require watering if the weather be at 
all dry. 
Broad Beans. — Sow more if it be desirable to have successive crops, though 
few care to have a continuance. Take the tups olf them in flower, and draw ttie 
earth up round the earlier sown ones. 
Savoy Seed. — S ow for a late crop, plant out some of the earliest sowing. 
Peas. — Sow some twice in the month ; peas should be sown right through the 
season, every fortnight or three weeks ; earth up those which are up and advan- 
cing ; stick those which are forward enough. 
Endive should be sown for a few early plants in rich open ground. 
Pot Herbs may be sown, and slips may be put in the ground. 
Radish Seed. — Sow more, and choose some of the handsomest of the crop 
gone by to plant lor seed, and choose those which are most smooth-skinned and 
bright-coloured ; plant them in a row two feet apart. 
Celery.— The March-sown will be large enough to prick out ; take the 
largest, and contrive to thin the seed-bed all over, rather than clear it in any part ; 
prick them out three or four inches apart, on a piece of rich ground, there to 
strengthen six weeks ; water them in to settle their roots. 
Onions must be hoed and cleaned, the plants for bulbing must not be closer 
than four or five inches ; if, however, any be left, they may be drawn for salads ; 
but it is better not to have the bed trampled upon oftener than is necessary, 
therefore it should be well cleared of weeds and properly thinned at once ; sup- 
port the stems of those going to seed. 
Cabbages. — Transplant a quantity of the spring-sown ones in rows eighteen 
inches apart every way. Tie up some of those that are forward enough, so that 
the hearts may be whitened ; earth up them that are advancing, loosening the 
soil, drawing the earth up the stems. Sow other seed. 
Cauliflowers, protected with handglasses, are r.ow beginning to show flower, 
and when this is the case break down oue or two leaves to cover them from the 
wet and sun. If the weather prove very dry, the plants must be watered ; trans- 
plant others from the seed or nursery bed, and sow more seed. 
Brocoli Sekd must be sown this month ; and it is better to sow two or three 
kinds, and at two separate seasons, a fortnight apart. 
Kale or Brown Cole, or Borecole, sow this month, if it be intended to grow 
any, for it is a course vegetable. 
Kidney Beans may be planted for a principal crop, and scarlet runners. The 
former in drills three inches to four apart in the drills, and the drills eighteen 
inches ; the latter six inches apart in the drills, and three feet apart. 
Capsicum and Tomato Plants. — P ut a few under a south wall, or at the 
foot of a south bank. 
Lettuce. — Transplant some of the strongest lettuce plants, thinning the place 
they were sown in, that the roots may perfect their growth on the seed-bed. Sow 
some of the different varieties. 
Cucumbers.— L evel the soil in the bed, and lay the branches out of each 
other’s way ; pinch off the ends of vigorous shoots. 
Small Salad. — S ow mustard, rape, cress, radish, and other small salad herbs. 
Spinach. — The sowing of this must depend entirely on the supply required ; 
if it be required in any quantity, it must be sown once a lortnight, as it should 
be pulled and earen before it runs up to seed. It may be ei’ her sown 
evenly all over a piece of ground allotted to it, or in drills a foot apart from 
drill to drill. 
May. 
