CALENDAR! 4L INDEX. 
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Introduction.] Be careful to. keep your crops clean, by hand-deeding 
and hoeing. About the last of the month, you may sow crops ;ff me¬ 
lons and cucumbers for pickling. Thin forward melon plants, leaving only 
two or three in a hill, 65. Attend to your cabbage and cauliflower pkmts, 
as well as your beans, &c., and see that they are not destroyed by the cut 
worm. u If you perceive any plants injured, open the earth at the foot of the 
plant, and you will never fail to find the worm at the root, within four inches. 
Kill him, and you will save not. only the other plants of your garden, but 
probably many thousands in future years." 7 Hoe and bush your late peas; 
plant more potatoes, succession-crops of kidney beans, 19, peas, 82. small 
salads and lettuce every week or ten days. “ Thin out and earth up all your 
plants; remember that frequent hoeing is both rain and manure to your ve¬ 
getables in dry weather. 77 Celery plants may now be planted out in trenches, 
43. When the plants have grown to the height of eight or ten inches, draw 
earth about them, breaking it fine. This should be done in dry weather, be¬ 
ing careful not to bury the heart. Plant out cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, 
&c., in moist or cloudy weather, but not when the ground is wet and heavy. 
Cut and dry such herbs as have come to maturity, for winter use. You 
may as well dry and pulverize some kinds, if you choose. Look over 
your grafted trees, and you may ascertain whether the scion has united with 
the stock. Take off the clay, and loosen the bandages of such grafts as have 
succeeded, and tie weak grafts and dangling shoots from budded stocks to neat 
stakes. Rub off all superfluous, irregular, or ill placed shoots or suckers. 
Where your fruit trees appear to be overloaded with fruit, pick off a part, 
and carefully gather all that which has fallen and give to your swine, in or¬ 
der to destroy the curculio. 
JULY. 
Clean and prepare your ground where your early crops of peas, spinage. 
cauliflowers, and cabbages grew, and all other vacant spots, to cultivate 
thereon such plants as are proper to supply your table, in autumn and winter, 
with later-grown productions. You may continue to sow crops of small sal- 
ading every eight or ten days, as directed in former months ; but they 
should now be sown on shady borders, or else be shaded by mats, occasion¬ 
ally, from the mid-day sun, and frequently watered, both before and after the 
plants appear above ground. You may now plant out your celery plants in 
trenches, 43, unless you have already performed that operation, as directed 
last month. About the middle of July, and from that time to the end of the 
first week in August, you may sow turnips, 111. Thin and transplant such 
lettuces as were sown last month, and sow more lettuce-seed in the begin¬ 
ning, middle, and last week of this month, in order to have a constant supply 
for the table, 61. Sow likewise radishes, 95, and in the last week of this 
month a good crop of spinach may be sown for autumn use ; it will not then 
be so liable to run to seed as in the preceding months. It is a good practice 
to sow early kinds of cabbages, SO, about this time, for a supply of young 
greens during autumn. Collect all kinds of seeds as they come to maturity, 
cutting off or pulling up the stems with the seeds attached, as they ripen. 
Spread them in some airy place under cover, turning them now and then, 
that the seeds may dry and harden gradually, and be careful not to lay them 
60 thick as to hazard their heating and fermenting. When they are suffi 
ciently dry, beat out and clean the seeds, and deposit them in bags or boxe 
