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diminished supply of moisture at the root. Pines, peaches, grapes, 
melons, &c., are all improved by this treatment. Strawberries, which 
are now in full bearing, are also improved by drought, but as quantity 
is often preferred to quality, the latter is often sacrificed for the sake 
of the former. 
Where insects, slugs, or snails, are annoying to ripening fruit, they 
must be captured or driven bv some means from their prey ; and if 
disease appears, a remedy should be speedily applied, and administered 
either generally, if the absence of fruit permit, or topically if otherwise. 
Where any budding of fruit trees is necessary, this is the season in 
which it should be performed, because the vital membrane or cambium 
of both bud and stock is now in that glutinous state, that a union or 
attachment with each other readily takes place. 
Flower Garden .—The principal matters to be attended to in this 
department are to do, in the first place, those things which might or 
ought to have been done in June, viz. taking up bulbs and tubers whose 
foliage is dead, making cuttings of roses, of heaths, and of all other 
plants whose shoots are in a proper state for the purpose. Layering 
carnations and piping pinks should be done as soon as possible, and 
seedlings of these may be placed singly in beds or in small pots. Chry¬ 
santhemums require support; such as are in small pots should be 
shifted into larger. Stake dahlias. New beds of pansies or hearts¬ 
ease may be made by offsets separated from the old plants. Tie up tall 
growing herbaceous flowers in the borders, and clear away all decayed 
stems and leaves. Sow seeds of biennial flowers. Regulate the patches 
of hardy annuals, and continue to put out tender annuals and rejected 
greenhouse plants in vacant spaces of the flower garden. Hot-house or 
greenhouse annuals may require shifting into larger pots, &c. &c. In 
fact, the business of the flower gardener is so multifarious at this season, 
that it is impossible to name one-hundredth part of the plants which 
now require his special attention. Sowing, transplanting, shifting, 
thinning and pruning, propagating by layers and cuttings, propping, 
shading, and watering, is one or other, or sometimes all, his every day’s 
task. His main object is to keep up a continued display of everything 
which is gay and beautiful throughout the season, tribe succeeding tribe 
in endless succession, requiring no small share of study so to sow or 
plant in one season that shall produce the desired results at another. 
