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HORTICULTURAL CALENDAR. 
Peas and Beans.^ Sow once a fortnight for successional crops: 
also root and earth up such as require it. The beans about the end 
of the month if the weather be dry may probably begin to be infested 
with the Aphis; as soon as the insects are perceived at the top of 
the stems, pinch the tops of those infested off and carry them away 
and burn them. If in consequence of April being dry the little 
brown beetle infests the peas, lay some bean stalks or other shelter 
for them, in the evening some boiling water may be poured over the 
decoy. 
Onions. —Sow a few silver-skinned to draw young in summer, or 
small bulbs to pickle. 
Endive. —Sow a moderate quantity of the green curled about the 
twentieth. 
Spinach —Sow once a fortnight for successional crops. 
Savoys. —Plant out the earliest raised savoys about two feet apart, 
to form heads for autumn. 
Lettuce. —Sow two or three times in the month, and plant early 
raised ones a foot apart. 
Mustard and Cress. —Sow once a week in warm situations, 
Turnips. —Sow a plentiful crop of the stone-top towards the mid¬ 
dle of the month. 
Insects. —Wasps should now as much as possible be destroyed 
before they begin to breed, as by destroying one at this time of the 
year, the existence of many hundreds is prevented. 
FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 
Apricots on the open walls must be examined, and the caterpillers 
secreted in the buds destroyed, by taking the curled leaves off and 
crushing them. 
Vines in Pots now brought into the vineries, will ripen their fruit 
by the end of July, and those introduced up the rafters will ripen 
their fruit in October. They may also be layered any time this 
month, they do not require either tongueing or twisting; but if the 
weather is dry they must have a good supply of water. 
Peach Trees in houses, if the fruit has finished stoning, keep the 
heat from 70 to 75 degrees by day, and 65 to 70 by night. 
Cherry Trees in houses, will very probably have their fruit now 
stoning, be careful that the thermometer range no higher than 60 
degrees by day and 55 by night, until this critical period is over, 
when the heat may be raised to 70 degrees by day, and 65 by night. 
Give abundance of air, and syringe the trees until the fruit begins to 
ripen, when it must be discontinued. 
