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till w mted. Give water to such plants as require it, hut let this be always 
done in the evening, that it may be of use to the vegetables before the sun 
shall cause it to evaporate. 
You may now inoculate or bud your fruit-trees, and. where it can be 
done without inconvenience, it will be well to turn swine into your orchard 
to eat the fallen and decayed fruit, and thus destroy the insects which it con¬ 
tains. If, however, this cannot well be done, or you have not swine in suffi¬ 
cient numbers to devour all your fallen fruit, it will be weil to gather and 
carry it from the ground before the insects, which inhabit it, make their way 
into the earth, and make you destructive visitations another season. 
AUGUST. 
Keep all your crops clear from weeds, using the hoe where safe and con 
venient; otherwise make claw-hoes of your hands, and weed-extracting nip¬ 
pers of your thumb and fore-fingers. Pull up the haulm of peas, beans, &c.. 
and remove it to your compost bed; bury it between rows of plants, or 
throw it, together with all weeds, &c., to your swine, that your premises may 
have a neat appearance. Cut such herbs as are now in flower, to distill, or 
to dry for winter use, being careful to do it when they are dry, and spread 
them in a dry, shady place ; for, if they are dried in the sun, they will shrink 
very much, turn black, and prove of little value. Your dung-hills and com¬ 
post-heaps should, during the summer months.be kept free from weeds, for 
if the seeds are permitted to ripen and fall, the dung when carried into the 
garden, will disseminate weeds innumerable. Attend to plants set out for 
seed, and put stakes to such as need support. This month, as well as 
the latter part of July, is the proper season for inoculating or budding. 
M ; Mahon says, “ Cherries, plums, or any other fruit-trees, may be budded 
in August, if the bark parts freely from the stock. Pears ought to be inocu¬ 
lated the early part of the month, or while the sap flows freely; but the 
peach, nectarine, almond, and apple, will succeed any time between the first 
of August and twentieth of September, provided the stocks are young and 
vigorous. 55 
Preserve peach, plum, cherry, and apricot stones, &c., to sow for raising 
stocks to bud and graft on. These may either be sown immediately, or kept 
in common garden earth, or moist sand. But it will be necessary to sow 
them before the stones open, and the radicles begin to shoot; otherwise ma¬ 
ny of them will be broken or torn in the process of sowing. Every day they 
are kept out of ground is an injury to them ; and if they remain in a dry state 
till spring, very few will vegetate till a year after, and the greater number 
not at all Continue to collect and preserve seeds as directed last month. 
Sow onions to stand over winter, 72 ; likewise, cauliflowers, 43. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Hoe and thin your growing crops of spinach, 103. In the first week of this 
month, sow & full crop of the prickly-seeded kind for winter and spring use, 
103. And, at the same time, you should sow’ a good supply of the early 
short-top, white and red turnip-rooted and salmon radishes, 95. Earth up 
celery as it advances in grow’th, but be careful to avoid covering the hearts 
of the plants. This work should be done in a dry day. See that you do not 
bruise or injure the stalks ; for if they are crushed or wounded, they will be 
subject to rot. Gather all kinds of seeds as they ripen, which may be 
