May.] the FRUIT GARDEN. 3§>7 
Watering with common water proves very beneficial to trees in- 
fested with insects, especially if thrown against them with some 
force, by means of a small water-engine. This v/ill not only dis- 
place caterpillars and many other insects, but greatly refresh the 
trees, especially in dry weather, and if often repeated where insects 
appear, it will considerably diminish their number, and prevent 
their spreading. 
The most eligible engines are such as have the pump and dis- 
charging pipe fixed in the vessel for containing the water, of which 
some are of a moderate size for carrying about by the hand, but 
larger ones are fitted upon a low, light, three wheeled carriage, for 
the more convenient removal from place to place. 
This engine may be conveniently used for watering different 
parts of the garden in dry weather. 
Watering neio planted Trees. 
The new planted fruit trees will now be greatly benefitted by 
occasional watering, which should always be given in the morning, 
and frequently over the branches, as well as about their roots; this 
will be of great service in washing off any dust and filth which their 
leaves may have contracted, and in opening their pores for the re- 
ception of the atmospheric moisture. 
Straiuherries. 
Watering at this season will be extremely salutary to strawber- 
ries, by causing their fruit to set and swell freely; let it not be 
given over the plants, but between them, lest it should v/ash off the 
fecundating polen from the flowers, and thereby prevent their set- 
ting fruit. 
in those beds where the plants are kept apart from one another, 
and the fruit required in the greatest perfection, the young advanc- 
ing runners should be trimmed off, to encourage the bloom and en- 
large the fruit; but when a supply of those are wanted for forming 
'new plantations, a sufficiency must be left for that purpose. 
The edgings of strawberries, round beds or borders, &c. should 
be kept within due bounds, by occasionally cutting away their ad- 
vancing runners. 
Newly grafted and budded Trees. 
For the treatment of such trees as were grafted in the preceding 
months, or budded last summer or autumn, see i\\Q Nursery for this 
month. 
THE ORCHARD. 
You should now pay attention to the due formation of the heads 
of young or new planted trees; much may be done towards that by 
