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REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. 
<{ Vegetables.— The operations of this month are limited to the 
clearing off all decayed leaves, haulm, &<?., so as to preserve neatness, 
and make room for other crops. Attend to the growing crops of broc¬ 
coli, cabbage, &c.; draw earth to their stems, to prevent them being 
blown about by the wind. Cut parsley close to the bottom, in order to 
have young leaves for winter and spring.” 
REMARKS ON THE WEATHER 
The changeable character of the summer still continues, and upon 
the whole, since our last report, has been rather favourable for growing 
crops than otherwise. Soon after the beginning of the present month 
we had very dry and warm weather; during the second week it became 
changeable, with frequent showers, which latter have been particularly 
beneficial to many crops in the kitchen garden. Kidney-beans have 
been reinvigorated, and are bearing abundantly: celery, broccoli, and 
all summer-planted crops have had a fair start. 
There is, in many places, a fair sprinkling of apples, and mulberries 
and walnuts are plentiful, but pears and plums are a scanty crop. 
These different results are consequent upon the state of the weather 
when each of the kinds were in blossom in the spring. Pears and 
plums which flower early are very often cut off, especially in sheltered 
situations, and therefore the latest-dowering varieties of all kinds of 
orchard fruit are the most to be depended upon for a crop. 
Notwithstanding all our lists of fruits, with modes of culture, size, 
colour, and qualities of the fruit respectively, there is still one thing 
wanting which should accompany these lists, namely, their times of 
flowering comparatively with each other. This particular, so generally 
neglected in making a practical registration of circumstances relative to 
the growth and times of ripening of our common fruits, is ably and 
strenuously recommended by an intelligent correspondent in a late 
number of the Register, whose advice is well worth the attention of 
nurserymen and others engaged in the culture of our different kinds of 
orchard fruit. A three or four years’ attention to this matter would 
enable a careful observer to draw up a very useful adjunct to our 
treatises on orcharding. 
August 25//?. 
