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devour the choice fruit; by the sweetness of the water they are 
tempted into the phials, and frequently drowned; but these should 
be hung before the fruit begins to ripen, for then the insects would 
be much sooner tempted to the water, than after having tasted the 
fruit: where a sufficient number of glasses are placed in time, pro- 
perly attended to, and the water occasionally renewed, very little 
damage is done by those insects. 
Clean the Borders, Sfc. 
Hoe and clean the ground about your espalier and wall trees, for 
if weeds are permitted to grow at this season, they will rob the trees 
of a great portion of their nourishment: cut off all suckers which 
arise from the roots of the trees, as they are produced, for these are 
robbers and would injure them much if suffered to remain. 
THE ORCHARD. 
Little remains to be done during this month in the Or- 
chard, but to feast on its delicious productions: however, it will be 
very proper, to pick and carry away all decayed and fallen fruit, 
for the reasons assigned in the Fruit-Garden for this month. Should 
any of the trees show canker, or much gum, you may now cut out 
the decayed part, clean to the fresh wood, and give it a dressing of 
the medicated tar prescriped in page 47, giving this medication a 
due consistence as there directed, to prevent its melting away by 
the heat of the weather; or you may apply Mr. Forsyth's compo- 
sition, for which see page 225. 
Where it can be done without injury, it would be of use to turn 
pigs into the orchard at this seaaon, to eat up the fallen, decayed 
fruit, and, consequently, to destroy the numerous brood of insects 
contained therein. 
THE VINEYARD. 
In the middle states, the grapes are generally set or formed, 
about the first week of this month; when all the loose hanging- 
shoots, are to be neatly tied up to the stakes, and the useless weak 
growths, as well as the suckers arising from the roots and lower 
parts of the stems, cleared or cut away; but by no means divest 
