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CULTURE OF THE RANUNCULUS. 
Turnips. —Sow Early Dutch, to succeed those sown last month. 
Parsley. — Sow the principal crop. ' 
Spinach —Sow round seeded once a fortnight. 
Winter Greens, as Savoys &c. sow in the first week. 
FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 
Apricot Trees will require looking over as soon as the leaves ap¬ 
pear, and if the foliage is curled, or webs are seen, caterpillars are 
secreted in the buds, open the leaves and destroy them. 
Peach and Nectarine Trees must be protected by canvass or wool¬ 
len netting, from the effects of frost; no heavy covering, however, 
must be allowed to remain before the trees during the day, unless the 
weather is very rough, or the fruit will set weakly. The fruit in the 
Peach houses will now begin to stone, keep the thermometer at 60 
degrees during night, and 70 degrees during the day, and give as 
much air as possible. 
Graf tiny may still be performed in the first week. 
Vines now introduced up the rafters in the vinery, will ripen their 
fruit in August. Vines in pots now introduced ripen fruit the mid¬ 
dle of July. Thin, if required, as recommended last month. 
FLORICULTURE. 
ARTICLE XI.—CULTURE OF THE RANUNCULUS. 
The species of Ranunculus most worthy of the cultivators care are, 
rutaefolius, isopyroides, glacialis, alpestris, aconitifolius, platanifolius, 
amplexicaulis, Pyreneeus, gramineus, gracilis, fumarieefolius, Illyri- 
cus, acris flore-pleno, repens flore-pleno, macropetalus, Krapfia, 
Asiaticus and parmassifolius The first section in this genus are all 
aquatic plants, and not worth cultivation. The aquatilis makes a 
handsome show in our ponds and rivers. Dr. Pulteney contradicts 
the assertion of its deleterious qualities, and proves that it is not 
merely innoxious, but nutritive to cattle, and capable of being con¬ 
verted to useful purposes in agricultural economy. In the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Kiugswood, on the borders of the Avon, some of the 
cottages support their cows, and even horses, almost wholly by this 
plant. A man collects a quantity every morning, and brings it in a 
boat to the edge of the water, from which the cows eat it with avidity, 
insomuch that they stint them, and allow only about twenty-five or 
thirty pounds to each cow daily. One man kept five cows and one 
horse so much on this plant, with the little that the heath afforded, 
