In the Fruit-garden. Keep your wall fruit clean from insects, and guard against birds ; thin the sets where too numerous. Where apple, pear, plum, &c. trees have made shoots, regulate them duly, taking off all that would be superfluous close to the stems ; new planted trees should be examined, and eventually watered. Look over your vines again ; towards the end of the month you may bud, or inoculate some fruit trees. Clear your strawberry beds from suckers, and set out where you want new beds, or to supply vacancies. Destroy snails, and scare birds.
In the Flower-garden Transplant hardy annuals, water tender annuals ; some quick flowers may yet be sown, to blow in autumn ; take up the bulbs that are past flowering, transplant Guernsey and Belladonia lily roots, propagate fibrous rooted plants, transplant seedlings, look to your carnations and pinks, both old and seedlings, lay them, as also double flow ers of vnrinnq lz;nelq nrnnocuete by pin.
(or cuttings,) cut edgings, clear away weeds, water freely, mow lawns and vallies, and clip hedges.
In the Nursery. You may inoculate stove-fruit trees, examine last years' buds, graft in general ; inoculate roses propagate hardy exotics, water seed lings, and shade them ; water trees new ly planted, and transplant seedling pines, firs, &c.
In the Green-house. Admit air to the fullest extent, andbring the plants out in to the open air ; water and stir the soil in the pots, wash off dust, destroy insects, cleanse the interior well, plant cuttings and slips of myrtle, geranium, &c. Pro pagate succulent plants, letting the cuttings remain in a dry airy place about ten days. You may march upon orange and lemon trees, make layers of green house shrubs, and transplant seedling exotics.
In the Hot-house. Give fresh air and abundance of water, but not too much at a time : take off the crown and side swell ers from the ripe fruit, as they will in two years bear fruit.
JULY.July.
Kitchen-garden. Plant out the princi pal crops of cabbages, &c. watering them well for several days ; plant out brocoli, and sow seed for spring crops ; transplant endive, and sow seed for winter crops; you may yet sow kidney and scarlet beans ; set out the cauliflowers sown in May ; sow small salading and winter onions, also carrots for autumn ; trans plant celery, and land up that formerly set out; sow turnips; plant out lettuce, sow some seed also of winter spinach, radishes, and cole-worts ; pull onions, garlic, and shallots ; be prudent in not giving much water to your ripening me lons, as it would hurt their flavour ; for the same reason shelter them from heavy rain. When you have cut artichokes,
break the stem down close to the root. Set out cardoons, gather seeds, trans plant leeks, collect herbs for distilling while early in flower ; plant sage, &c. gather physical and pot-herbs for dry ing ; sow peas and beans for a late crop ; water freely and clear your ground.
In the Fruit-garden. Look to your wall trees nail up your fig-trees, look again to your vines in particular, destroy wasps and insects, not forgetting snails. Bud your stone-fruit trees, and preserve Seeds.
In the Flower-garden. Bring out your curious annualsthat were as yet in frames, &c. clear them well, and wash well with a light pot pierced very small ; transplant annuals into the borders, &c. select car nations, which must be carefully preserv ed, lay them, as also double sweet-wil hams, &c. transplant former layers, pro pagate pinks by pipings; set out peren nial plants, clean your auriculas, trans plant their seedlings; take up remain ing bulbs, propagate the double scarlet lychnis, &c. by cuttings ; mow lawns and walks, cut edgings, and clip hedges, destroy weeds, and cut away decayed flower-stems.
In the Nursery. Bud your stone-fruit trees ; grafted trees are to be examined; transplant seedling firs ; inoculate and lay curious shrubs; water freely, and destroy weeds.
In the Green-house. Water your bear ing trees in particular ; give them new soil; propagate exotics by cuttings, &c. plant cuttings of succulents ; bud your oranges and lemons.
In the flat-house. Admit air in calm clear weather ; propagate pines as before she wn ; water moderately, and pay atten tion to your exotics.
AUGUST.August.
Kitehengarden. Sow a full crop of winter spinach, also cabbages, brocoli, savoys, winter onions, carrots for spring use, radishes, some cauliflowers for next summer ; transplant celery, and earth up former trenchings ; sow small salading, lettuce, fen nels, angelica, carduus, endive, cole-worts, &c.: clean your beds of aspa ragus; earth up cardoons ; look to your onions, garlic, and shallots; propagate sweet herbs; gather seeds ; and see to your melons and cucumbers, which will now be in bearing. You may likewise sow turnips for a late crop ; hoe your former crops well in dry weather.