HORTICULTURAL CALENDAR. 
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are used, viz., the rhapontic, the hybird, and the palmated; but new 
varieties are often raised from seed, one of which, having remarkably 
large leaves and stalks, called the Goliah, is greatly prized. Rhu¬ 
barb may be raised from seed or by division of old roots; it also 
bears forcing well; old roots, thickly crowded into large dower pots 
or shallow tubs, and set any where to receive a suitable share of heat, 
will give their leaves abundantly. 
What other leaves remain to be noticed ? Besides all the different 
sorts of pot-herbs, hereafter to be noticed, there are two other plants, 
the leaves of which are used at table, viz., lamb’s lettuce, or corn 
salad, and orache, used as spinach. Corn salad is sowed in August 
and September for winter and spring supply, and in every other 
month, to secure a succession as an ingredient in salads; neither bulk 
nor other quality to recommend it. Orache is sowed in the spring, 
and yields its leaves in the summer; but is considered an inferior 
vegetable, and not to be compared to the young sprouts from cabbage 
stalk. 
ARTICLE VI. 
OPERATIONS IN THE FRUIT AND KITCHEN.GARDEN 
FOR JULY. 
FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 
Apple Trees .—Gather off the caterpillars in webs, with the hand, 
and wash the trees with good soap suds, if it can conveniently be 
done. 
Budding may be performed on many fruit trees; take advantage 
of cloudy weather for the purpose, or do it early in the mornings or 
late in the evenings. 
Cherry Trees are seldom much troubled with aphides this 
month, but should it be the case, they cannot be interfered with 
whilst the fruit is ripening, or the flavour will be damaged; but as 
many of the earlier sorts will be gathered, mix some tobacco water 
with strong soap suds, and apply it warm with an engine, and the in¬ 
sects will soon disappear. 
Peach and Nectarine Trees infested with the aphis and red spi¬ 
der, should be washed with the following mixture. To three bushels 
of quick lime, and three bushels of soot, add twenty gallons of soft 
water, stir these up for several days, and take off the scum as it rises; 
then take the clear liquor, and add one quart of good tobacco-water 
to every two gallons of the liquor, and about a quarter of a pound of 
