438 f HE FRUIT-GAR DfeN. [July. 
Earth up your advancing crops of cabbages, and all other plants 
of that tribe; likewise, okra, peas, kidney-beans, See. this will 
greatly refresh them, and protect their roots and fibres from the 
powerful heat of the sun. 
Pull up the stalks of beans, cauliflowers, cabbages, and the haulm 
of peas and other plants, which have done bearing, that the ground 
may be clear; for if these are suffered to remain, they will har- 
bour vermin to the injury of the adjoining crops. 
THE FRUIT-GARDEN. 
Wall and Espalier Trees. 
In the beginning of this month, you must look carefully over 
your wall and espalier trees, rubbing off all fore-right shoots, and 
training in all such regular growths as are designed to remain, 
close to the wall or espalier, at regular distances, and in their due 
position. Never pull off any leaves, nor thin the branches, in or- 
der to expose the fruit to the sun; as the sudden exposure would 
be extremely injurious to them; by it, their skins would be har- 
dened and contracted, and their growth greatly retarded. Though 
I am not fond of using the knife too freely at this season, which is 
a very common and pernicious practice, yet it will be proper to 
cut out irregular and disorderly shoots; but this must be done ju- 
diciously, and an abundant supply of young wood left for the winter 
pruning, particularly on the peaches, nectarines, figs, apricots and 
morella-cherries, which generally bear their fruit on the preceding 
year's wood: the apricot bears on fiuiting-spurs likewise. 
Pick off all punctured and decaying fruit, and give them to the 
hogs; also, such as have fallen, in that state, from the trees; for 
the worms that are in these fruit, which have been the cause of their 
decline, will soon arrive at their fly or winged state, and attack the 
remaining fruit. 
Look carefully over the fruit-trees, which have been grafted 
last spring, or budded in the former season, and suffer no shoots 
from the stocks to remain, for these will rob the grafts of their 
nourishment. 
Budding or Inoculating. 
Budding may be performed on some kinds of fruit-trees, about 
the middle of this month, but as that subject is fully treated of, 
in the Nursery department, 1 refer you thereto, for information. 
Destroy Wasps, S^c. 
Hang up glass phials, filled with honey or sugar water, in dif- 
ferent parts among the wall, espalier, and standard fruit trees; in or- 
der to destroy wasps, ants. See. which would otherwise infest and 
