386 THE FRUIT-GARDEN. [May. 
Insects* 
At this season, insects will probably appear on some of your 
fruit trees; when that is the case, there should be immediate means 
used for their destruction, before they increase and become nume- 
rous. See page 333. 
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 will not only dis- 
place caterpillars and many other insects, but greatly refresh the 
trees, especially, in dry weather; and if often repeated where in- 
sects appear, it will considerably diminish their number, and pre- 
vent 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 new planted Trees. 
The new planted fruit-trees, will now be greatly benefited by 
occasional waterings, which should always be given in the morn- 
ing, and frequently over the branches, as well as about the 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 
reception of the atmospheric moisture. 
Strawberries. 
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 wash off the fecun- 
dating polen from the flowers, and thereby prevent their setting 
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 advan- 
cing runners. 
Newly grafted and budded Trees. 
For the treatment of such trees as were grafted in the preceding 
months, or buaded last summer or autumn, see the Nursery for 
this month. 
