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French. Kidney, &o. Beans. — This month 
the principal crop should be sown, or if they 
have Leen sown for planting out, they should 
be planted out about the middle of the month. 
It is, however, better to sow them in thin 
rows the first week, about nine inches apart 
in the rows, and the rows eighteen inches or 
two feet from each other. There is a large 
white kind, which the French call harrico 
beans, and which are excellent stewed ; these 
should be sown in the event of your requiring 
the dry seeds, as they are free bearers, and a 
few rows will yield a good many seed. 
Broad Beans. — Plant a few more of any 
kind, to succeed previous sowings ; that is, if 
you are likely to want a further supply: it is 
not generally a favourite. 
Beet Root. — Hoe or thin them out so as 
to leave every root a foot of room. If you 
have not as many as you want, take up the 
roots instead of hoeing them ; and if removed 
carefully, without breaking the fibre, they will 
plant out very well; but those which are where 
they were sown will do best. 
Crops in general. — Go over all of them 
carefully, to weed and thin them where it is 
required. Water in dry weather such of them 
as appear to want it ; earthing up the stems 
of plants in drills, stirring up the surface of 
the ground between the rows, destroying 
vermin of every description, particularly grubs 
and slugs. If there be no other way, set 
children to catch them, for they destroy every 
thing they attack; nothing, perhaps, being 
more offensive than caterpillars, snails, slugs, 
&c, in any vegetable that has to be eaten. It 
is seldom all these things are done in time, 
and if they are not, the labour is increased, 
besides being less efficient when done, if the 
crops are half eaten before the insects are de- 
stroyed or disturbed. Perhaps in dry weather 
there is hardly a more efficacious way of de- 
stroying the grubs which infest gooseberries, 
and indeed everything, than with a syringe or 
garden engine, with a fine rose, so that the 
water may be forced pretty strongly upon the 
trees or vegetables, and dislodge them without 
breaking the leaves or shoots, or otherwise 
hurting them. Frogs and toads should be 
encouraged; in shady places bricks may be 
placed to form a harbour of refuge ; place 
them in this manner, "jl , and one across the 
top in many parts of the ground, particularly 
such parts as the slugs and vermin infest. In 
a general way be cleanly and tidy; frequently 
raking and hoeing the ground does much to- 
wards destroying vermin ; they never prosper 
much where they are frequently disturbed. 
Parsley is sown most in the autumn, but 
it may be sown early this month, and will 
grow rapidly if kept watered. That which 
was autumn sown and now growing, should 
be what is technically called rogued ; that is, 
as the curled leaf only is valued, all the plants 
which do not exhibit this desirable peculiarity 
should be pulled up as useless. Parsley may 
be sown in drills in any particular quarter 
devoted to it, or as edging round the kitchen 
garden. 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
Contrive that all the espalier trees shall 
be examined, to see where they are loosened 
from the frames, and have them tied or other- 
wise fastened. Rub off while young, all the 
buds and young shoots that are coming where 
they will not be wanted. Thin all the fruit 
as soon as it is set well, so that no more shall 
swell than the tree ought to perfect. Look 
well after grubs ; use the syringe freely, and 
after that rake the earth about at the bottom, 
that dislodged caterpillars and other insects 
may not recover themselves and return. 
Standard Fruit Trees are not so easily 
thinned, but they would pay well for the 
trouble if they underwent the same operation ; 
for all the English orchards which are left to 
themselves produce inferior fruit to that which 
they might produce if they had less burthen 
to bear, less quantity to nourish. To these, 
when at all infected with caterpillar or grub, 
the syringe would be well applied, with a 
moderately formed rose to break the water into 
a sort of rain, and forcibly applied from be- 
neath, three-fourths of the vermin may be 
dislodged in a short time, and two or three 
applications will clear them altogether. 
Wall Fruit Trees require close attention, 
first to rub off and remove with a sharp knife 
all the useless buds and shoots which grow out 
away from the wall, and as well as those 
which, though growing in a right situation, 
are more numerous than required; because all 
the growth that you admit to the branches 
which have to be removed, is taken from those 
which are to remain, and which of course are 
the worse for it. If any part of the wall is 
bare of wood, and any of the outer growing 
shoots can be bent down, or in, so as to fill it 
up, they should not be removed. 
Vines require, as much as anything, strict 
attention to the new shoots. Every one that is 
to grow for next year's fruiting should be 
encouraged, and fastened loosely to something, 
that it may not be retarded by its own weigh t 
or broken or damaged by the wind ; break off 
all others, or rub them off while very young, 
As the present year-bearing buds show fruit. 
let them be supported, and only allow one 
branch to a shoot, unless the crop be very 
short, in which case it is an excuse for leaving 
one more. Fork over the border a few inche? 
deep, and do not put any plants in it if yots 
can help it. A vine border wants all the sun, 
