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NORTHERN CALENDAR FOR AUGUST. 
Inoculate trees of this year’s growth ; procure none 
but the best and choicest fruit, and the labor will not 
be lost. For full directions see Northern Calendar for 
August. If your cabbages are eaten up by caterpillars 
in this month or next, be not discouraged. Although 
it will retard their growth until the insects are turned 
to moths or butterflies, they will afterward take a fresh 
start and flourish well. 
Transplant cauliflowers, savory, and cabbage-plants 
which were sowed in April, for winter use. Water 
them if the weather be dry, and the garden will soon 
be supplied. Plant out fig-trees, and shade their roots 
with wet straw—sow parsnips, carrots, radishes, and 
onions, in order to have a succession of these vegeta¬ 
bles. 
NORTHERN CALENDAR FOR AUGUST. 
Complete the haying and harvesting, and have all 
the ground intended for wheat and rye well prepared 
for the ensuing crop. Many excellent farmers in Mas¬ 
sachusetts sow their rye on light lands, among their 
corn, harrowing it in two ways between the rows, and 
frequently adding clover also. This last is a good 
practice, as it matures the clover a year sooner; un¬ 
less, as frequently happens, the drought of August and 
September kills the clover. A preference should, how¬ 
ever, be given for that system of farming which en¬ 
riches the soil to that degree, that an approximation to 
the corn-crop of Mr. Young may be realized, when 
there will be an effectual bar to the growth of rye, 
clover, or anything else but the main crop. Some 
pieces of after-math or rowen may now be cut, as it is 
excellent food for calves, lambs, and young colts, their 
masticators not yet having become adequate to grinding 
down the harder and more flinty grasses. It is ques¬ 
tionable, however, whether it is policy to cut much 
rowen, as the advantage to the growth of the following 
season, is a sufficient compensation for its loss, unless 
its place be supplied with a good coat of ashes or com¬ 
post. Look to your lightning-rods. There are more 
barns and stacks burnt in July and August from this 
cause, than in the other ten months. The gases now 
escaping from the fresh cut grass and grain, are excel¬ 
lent conductors for electricity, though not as good as an 
iron rod, and if you do not conduct it away by the lat¬ 
ter, the former may conduct it into your mows and 
granaries, and thus the labors of the year be lost. 
Ruta-bagas are an exhausting crop, and it is well to 
supply the growing plant with a coating of ashes and 
plaster. By the first they are supplied with potash, 
which they take up largely, and, by the last, they are 
assisted in drawing nutriment from the atmosphere. 
Now is the time to save many of your seeds, a duty to 
be always attended to with the utmost caution and 
care. Save only the best, so that your future crops 
may be improving rather than deteriorating. Es¬ 
pecially, save your own grass and clover-seeds. Tim¬ 
othy, orchard-grass, red-top, and clover, may be saved 
at one fourth the expense at which you can purchase 
them, and you may be sure of a good clean article, 
which you are not when you buy it elsewhere. The 
•second growth of clover is suitable for seed, and this 
may be gathered by a machine somewhat like a fine 
rake, drawn by a horse, which pulls off the head 
while the stalk remains standing. To such as do not 
fear excessive seeding, and it would be well if they 
were more numerous, the seed thus collected, may be i 
sown without thrashing and cleaning. Or it may be j 
cut and thrashed. When rotation is desired with j 
wheat, it is a better plan to turn in the whole crop j 
when ripe, by which the soil is more benefited than by J 
turning in a green crop, and the seeding is thus ef¬ 
fectually done without additional labor. 
The housewife should be careful to select the herbs 
during this month, (and every other when in season,) 
as they are now mostly in blossom. They should be 
cut when the flower is fully matured, and dried in the 
shade, and when thoroughly cured, placed in tight pa¬ 
per bags, so as to preserve the peculiar aromatic prin¬ 
ciple from insensible escape. Many plants, by this 
neglect, lose their efficacy and fragrance before they 
are used. Medicine is frequently afforded by these at 
a cheaper rate and of a better quality, than can be got 
of the apothecary. Cut, dry, and secure hemp in 
stacks or ricks. 
Kitchen Garden. —Finish planting savoy and other 
cabbages for late autumn and winter use. In the early 
part of the month, spinach for fall use can be sown, 
and that for early spring use in the latter part of the 
month. To endure the winter well, the latter should 
be sown on dry gravelly ground. Turneps for autumn 
or winter use sow in the early part of the month. 
Plant now a crop of late celery, and continue to throw 
up the earth to the growing crops. Small salading can 
still be sown every week. If the weather be favorable, 
plant peas and kidney beans in the early part of the 
month. They may produce a good crop, although the 
chances are somewhat against it. Lettuce for fall use 
can be sown or transplanted from former seed-beds. 
Crops of melons and cucumbers keep particularly 
clean, and if the weather be very dry, moderately wa¬ 
ter them in the evening. Lima and Carolina beans 
hoe well, and all runners that trail upon the ground cut 
off; they only take sustenance from the bearing vines. 
Attend to the manure-heaps now, and keep them clear 
of weeds, which would otherwise ripen and grow in 
the ground on which the manure is placed the ensuing 
year. 
Fruit-Garden and Orchard. —This month is the 
most suitable time for budding apples, pears, plums, 
cherries, nectarines, apricots, almonds, &c., and no 
farmer who wishes the luxuries of life at a cheap rate, 
should omit to select the choicest kinds of fruit-buds, 
and insert them in his own young stocks. We have 
the authority of Virgil and other old writers for saying, 
that it is best to inoculate at the joints where the bud 
is taken off, rather than between them, as is usual in 
modern practice. We intend to make the experiment 
this season on a few of our stocks. Keep the ground 
entirely clear among the seedlings and small trees. 
Flower-Garden and Pleasure-Grounds. —Trans¬ 
plant from the seedling beds the various kinds of an¬ 
nual, biennial, and perennial flowers that were not 
transplanted last month. Plant your bulbs which may 
be out of the ground, such as crocuses, colchicums, nar¬ 
cissus, amaryllis, frittellaries, crown-imperials, snow¬ 
drops, lilies, irises, and martagons. Also take up, sep¬ 
arate, and transplant the roots of pseonias, flag-irises, 
and other tuberous-rooted flowers, whose leaves are de¬ 
cayed. Suckers that have been thrown up from fibrous- 
rooted plants can be taken off and transplanted. Col¬ 
lect and transplant flowering plants from the woods 
and fields, removing them with a ball of earth, and cut¬ 
ting off their flowering stems if there are any. Water 
freely all newly-planted flower-roots, cut down the 
stems of those that have bloomed, loosen the earth 
about potted plants, clip hedges if omitted last month, 
mow the lawn once a fortnight. Keep clean and in 
order, the gravel walks, flower-borders and shrubbery. 
Trim and tie up straggling plants, and inoculate all 
you wish to propagate in that way. Gather flower- 
| seeds as they ripen, but let them remain in the pods 
until the season for sowing. 
