FRUIT GARDEN. 
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New Zealand sort is in use, which will last 
until August. 
Tomatoes. — Plant out in the warmest situ- 
ations, against a wall, to which they must be 
nailed : stop all laterals as they appear. 
Turnips. — Make two sowings during the 
month. 
Water- Cress. — Plant in any clear running 
stream ; it will also do in places where there 
is little current. 
CUCUMBER AND MELON FRAMES. 
Cucumbers. — Keep up the heat regularly, 
by means of linings of fresh dung, but they 
will not need to be so powerful as hitherto. 
The plants must be duly watered, but they 
must not have too much, especially if the heat 
is rather low, as this produces canker. They 
should have liquid manure occasionally when 
in bearing. They must also have tolerably 
free ventilation during the day, and some even 
at night. The plants must be regularly 
thinned, as already recommended. Plant some 
cuttings, of any desirable kind ; and be on the 
look out for the Syon House or Kenyon variety 
for winter growth. The ridge Cucumbers 
should be planted out this month. 
Melons. — The late or successional crops 
may be planted out as the frames get cleared 
out of other things. For very late crops, an 
early variety is best, as it comes to perfection 
in the least possible space of time. Very late 
Melons are tasteless. Do not water the plants 
over head, or it will cause the young fruit to 
become abortive : attend to thinning and regu- 
lating the shoots, as already detailed. Where 
the plants were placed out on hills, fill in the 
whole of the soil, give it moderate watering 
and treading, and it will seldom require any 
more : it is sometimes found to be advan- 
tageous, especially in cool dull summers, to 
cover the surface with slates or tiles, which 
keep the fruit from the damp surface of the 
soil, and assist in maturing it, by absorbing 
the heat of the sun. 
FRUIT-GARDEN. 
Give the strictest attention to keeping this 
department clean in all its parts ; water the 
newly planted trees, by forming a basin around 
the plants ; see that all the pruning and nail- 
ing is attended to in due time. 
Almonds. — Have the wood and fruit finally 
thinned, preserving all the right placed shoots, 
and tacking in the same. "Where these are 
laid in about six inches apart, it will be found 
quite thick enough. 
Apples. — In many places the severe frosts 
have done the work of thinning, almost too 
severely ; still, where they were very late, 
they may have set thickly, and it will be found 
that the quality will be much improved by a 
judicious thinning. Nail in and regulate the 
shoots of those on walls ; break over the 
breastwood to about one-third of its length, 
or so long as not to cause the back eyes to 
break: the same with espaliers. 
Apricots. — Finally thin the fruit to about 
one to every foot ; but they may be left thicker 
or thinner, according to the strength of the 
tree. Tack neatly in all the shoots that are 
well placed ; they will be thick enough if 
about six inches apart : unnail and rectify the 
position of any shoot that may be pressing the 
fruit ; this requires more attention than is 
generally given to it. 
Budding. — Nearly all the stone fruits suc- 
ceed best by this mode of propagation, which 
may be commenced this month. Plum stocks 
are generally preferred, but they will do well 
on stocks of their own kind. Choose a smooth 
place, at any height required, on the north 
side of the stock if possible, as not being ex- 
posed to the sun. With the budding-knife, 
make a cut across the back, or a "transverse 
incision" into the wood, and from the centre 
of this cut draw another perperdicularly down- 
wards, about an inch in length ; then take the 
selected bud, removing with bark attached, in 
the form of a shield, and of nearly the same 
length as the downward slit in the stock, taking 
care that only part of the leaf of the bud is 
removed ; when stripping out the wood from 
the bark of the bud, see that the bud is left. 
Then gently, with the bone handle of the 
knife, raise the bark of the stock, and insert 
the bud under it. The upper end of the 
shield is to be cut off, making it to fit exactly 
into the incision first made ; tie it in neatly 
with moist matting, observing to keep the bud 
open and free. This operation is seldom per- 
formed until the latter end of July ; but. from 
the advanced state of the season, it will pro- 
bably require earlier attention. Budding is 
an excellent way of extending quickly any 
good sorts. 
Cherries. — Protect from birds by netting, 
which must be kept out from the fruit by 
forked sticks, placed against the wall : be par- 
ticular in mending any rents in the netting. 
Currants. — All superfluous wood may be 
removed, so as to admit the light and air for 
the flavouring of the fruit, and ripening of 
the wood. 
Figs. — Stop every shoot, at from five to 
eight inches long, so as to have close jointed 
and fruitful wood. 
Gooseberries. — Keep the centre of the 
bushes open by removing all the young wood, 
which is never required there; the side shoots 
may also be moderately thinned. In using 
this fruit for tarts, avoid the common prac- 
tice of clearing the. bushes, but rather divest 
them only of half their load. Where in- 
