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"where there Is a vacancy, and nailed again(i the wall,
they wiil grow (trailer and finer flavoured than thofe on
the ground.
Replant imperial and Silefia lettuce: fowfomeof the
white and brown Dutch cos-lettuce, to be^planted out
for cabbaging in June : fow radifhes and endive very thin,
to be branched without tranfpladting ; and you may alfo
fow purflane and cabbage-feed ; tranfplant cauliflower-
plants ; make your firft drills for fellery, if your plants
are large enough. Plant out cabbages and beet-chard ;
and you may yet fow thyme, fvveet marjoram, and gilly¬
flowers.
You (hould now he very careful to deftroy weeds be¬
fore they flied their feeds ; deltroy alfo the nefts of cater¬
pillars and other infers which annoy your trees ; prune
off all crumpeled leaves, for they harbour the word of
vermin; and if the weather be dry, water new planted
trees, afparagus, <&c.
JUNE.
Flower-Garden.
The leaves of the faffron crocus appear as foon as the
flower is part, and remain all winter, which in the fpring
fliould be tied together in knots to help the increafe of
the roots ; and thefe will be fit to remove or tranfplant
about JVIidfummer-. This plant delights in chalky ground,
but it will profper alfo in a fandy foil; and the piftillum
contains the faffron ufed in medicine. The roots of the
feveral kinds of crocus may be taken out of the ground
in this month, and replanted with other bulbs; they love
a light foil, and may be increaled by off-fets.
The cyclamen is propagated from feeds fown as foon
as ripe, in a light foil, and tranfplanted in Midfummer
when their leaves are decayed; and it is a general rule,
that all bulbs may be fafely tranfplanted, when their
flowers and leaves are decayed.
The colchicum thrives bell in a fandy foil, and will on¬
ly bear tranfplanting about Midfummer, when the roots
are entirely at reft. There are many forts of aloes, the
moft common whereof are brought from America ; but
Africa produces the greateft variety, where they grow
upon rocky ground; therefore the earth proper for
them is to be made with one half fandy foil, and the
other rubbifh of old walls, mixed and fifted together;
you fhould plant them (hallow in the pots, railing the
€arth about them, fo that the plant may, as it were, ftand
on a hill ; and when you water them, do it without
touching any part of the plant, otherwife they will be in
danger of rotting; the off-fets of the aloe may be plant¬
ed in the latter end of this month, and the beginning of
July, when they fhould be fuffered to ftand abroad for
about nine days ; and they may be helped with a hot-bed
as foon as they begin to take root; if the weather be fair
while the aloes are abroad, their earth being dry, will
require watering once a-week ; and from the time of
their being houfed till the middle of Odfober, gentle re-
frefhments may be given them while the fun is upon them
in the morning; but from October to March, they muft
(be kept very dry. In May they fhould be tranfplanted,
Vol. II. No. sq. .2
without difturbing the roots; the feeds of many kinds of
aloes ripen in Britain, and may be fown in April upon
hot-beds. Thefritillaria is propagated by planting their
branches in a natural bed of earth any time between June
and Auguft, and they will foon be fit to plant into pots;
they fucceed beft in the fame fort of earth as the hloe.
The Indian fig is raifed by planting its leaves fingly a-
bout two inches deep, in pots of earth compofed of lime,
rubbifh, and fandy foil, after their wounds are dried,
and letting them ftand abroad till they take root, and
then they may have the help of the hot-bed ; you muft
give thefe plants a good deal of the fun, and the leaves
fhould be planted during the fummer-months.
Fruit-Garden.
The inoculation of fruit-trees now demands the atten¬
tion of the gardener, and the following is the moft ap¬
proved method of performing the operation. About
Midfummer take off a vigorous fhoot from any tree you
would propagate; and after having made choice of a ftock
of about three or four years growth, in a fmooth par.t
of it make a downright flit in the bark, a little above
an inch in length, and another crofswife at the top qf
that, to give way to the opening of the bark ; then gently
loofen the bark from the wood on both fides, beginning
at the top; which being done, cut off your bud with a
penknife, entering pretty deep into the wood, as much
above as below the bud, to the length cf the flit in the
ftock : after the bud is thus prepared, take out the woody
part of it (carefully preferving the eye of the bud) then
put it in between the bark and the wood of the ftock at
the crofs flit, putting it downward by the ftalk, where
the leaf grew, till it exa&ly clofes ; then bind it about
with coarfe woolen yarn, the better to make all parts re¬
gularly clofe, and the bud incorporate with the ftock:
in three weeks time the bud will be incorporated with
the ftock, when you muft loofen the yarn, that it may
not gall the place too much: the quicker this operation
is performed, the better; and you muft put twq buds into
one ftock, in inoculating nedtarines aud peaches. IF the
buds inoculated this month do not hit, you may make
another attempt in the fame year, and on the fame ftock.
The proper time for inoculating is from the beginning of
this month to the latter end of Auguft ; and care muft be
taken that the branch and fhoot made choice of for in¬
oculation, do not lie by, but that they be ufed as foon as
cut.
You may upon one tree, bud peaches, nedlarines, a-
pncqts, plumbs, and almonds.
Kitchen-Garden.
Kidne v-beans, radifhes, lettuces for cabbaging, and
endive, may now be fown; a? may alfo the large fort of
peas, about five or fix inches apart, allowing three or
four feet diftance between the lines, and they will in Sep¬
tember afford a good crop.
Replant cabbage-lettuces ; tranfplant leeks in light rich
ground, and at fix inches diftance from each other ; and if
the weather be dry, you may gather herbs for drying a-
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