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Show JU i ee JULY: Work to be done in the KitchenGarden. At the Beginning of this Month fow the whereas that which is fown in the Spring will be very liable thereto ; and if it doth not, the laft Crop of Kiduey-Beaus in fome well-thelPlant will not have half the Strength thefirft ter’'d Situation, that they may continue the later in Autumnbefore the Froft deftroys them; Summer. Tt ought to be kept conftantly weeded ; but and if the Ground be very dry, you fhould if it come up good, it will need the lefs weed- foak the Beans fix or feven Hours in Water ing: The ordinary Price of Weeding is Eight before you plant them, whichwil] greatly forward their Growth. Shillings per Acre. Toward the Middle or Latter-end of this Some teedenatts the fowing of it about Month you fhould fow Spinage, Colworts, the beginning of February; for which they give this Reafon, That whereas it is apt to Carrots, Turnips, Onions, &c. to ftand the be fpoil’d by the Fly and Grub,it efcapes the Winter. Tranfplant Savoys, Broccoli, Cauiibetter being early fown; and if they do kill flowers and Cabbages, for Spring Ufe ; as alfo anyof it, they have the better Opportunity Cellery into. Trenches, for Winter Ufe, Clear your Ground where your Summer of lowing more, ‘They do this by making Holes with a Stick Crop of Cauliflowers grew ; and if you have about feven or eight Inches afunder, and put Cucumbers for Pickling between them, (as is the common Practice of the Gardeners near five or fix Seeds into each Hole. They feldom or never fow it more than London) you muft now draw up the Earth two Years upon the fame Piece of Land: be- round them with a Hoe, and form it intoa caufe, if it be long continu’d, it robs the Soil ; Bafon, to contain the Water whichis given but, if it be moderately us’d, it prepares Land them: And if you have Winter Cabbages for Corn ; and wherethe Soil is rank, it abates planted alfo between the narrow Rows of Cauliflowers, you muft earth them up, and the toogreat Fertility of it. It is ripe when the Leaf is cometoits full make the Ground clean from Weeds. Growth, and retains its perfe& Colour, and You muft alfo obferve to deftroy the Weeds lively Greennefs, which is fometimes fooner, in every Part of the Garden, which, if faffer'd and fometimes later, as the Year proves dry to remain, will foon come to Seed at this or moitt. Seafon ; and if permitted to fhed, will fill the As foonas it is fit to cut, it fhould be done Ground fo full of Seeds, that by feven Years with all the Speed that poffibly may be, that good Husbandryit will not be extirpated. Obit may not fade, nor grow pale ; and when it ferve alfo to clear your Dung-hills and Layit is cut, it ought to be immediately carry’d ftalls from Weeds; for if they arefuffer’d to tothe Mill. The Manner of Doing which, feed there, the Seeds will be carry’d withthe and the Wayof Ordering it, is beft learn’d Dung into the Garden, and be astroublefome from experienc’d Workmen, and is not to be as if the Weeds had been permitted to feed trufted to a verbal Deicription of it. there: which is what few People regard, tho In ploughing it up, and fowing it again, it isa Thing of great Moment. they pick up all the old Roots as they harrow In dry Weather obferve to water all fuch it, except what they defign for Seed, which Plants as have been lately tranfplanted, and they let ftand to the next Year: It manytimes be fure always to do this in an Evening; for duce much larger Leaves: And befides, that fown at this Seafon doth feldom mifcarry 5 producesfifty Quarters upon an Acre. ‘They always keep a good Quantity of Seed bythem, to plant the Groundthat fails: The It manytimes fells from fix Pounds to thirty Pounds a Tun, an Acre commonly yielding about a Tun, JUDAICA ARBOR ; vide Siliquaftrum. JUJUBE; vide Zizyphus. JULIANS, or ROCKETS 3 vide Hefperis, JULY FLOWER ; wide Caryophyllus . Crops, that the Ground may be clear; forif thefe are permitted to remain, they willharbour Vermin to the Prejudice of your other adjoining Crops. You may, in this Month, repair the Loffes of your young A/paragus-beds, which were planted in theS Spring, byi planting frefh Plants where any of them have fail’d ; but this fhould be done in a moift Seafon. Your Melons now beginning to ripen, fhould have very little Water given them; which altho’ it would increafe the Size of the Fruit, yet it would caufe themto be watery and illtafted. The Produét of the Kitchen-Garden in July. Artichoaks, Cauliflowers, Cabbages, Carrots, Beans, Peas, Kidney-beans, £ Turnips, Lettuce, tflain, Creffes, Rape, Radifo, Mu- and moft other Sorts of young Sallet ; Cucumbers, Melons, Onions, with feve~ ral other Sorts: And in the Phyfick-Garden, moft Sorts of Herbs for Diftillation, andall Sorts of aromatick Herbs are now in prime, Et ee : ae Be ceeWile Saat and You fhould now go over your Walls and Efpaliers of Fruit-Trees, rubbing offali foreit Buds which are now produc’d, tying in all fuch Branches as are loofen’d or irregularly plac’d in their due Pofition, whereby your Fruit will have the Advantages of Sun and Air to ripen them, and give them agood renal rightly executed, there will ) divelt the Branches oftheir y fome one Watering at that Time is of more Service than three at any other Time of the Day, ifon, (as is generally practis’d) the Moifture having Time to foak co every Part of the Root, before the Sun appearst for Winter Ufe. ni Continue to earth up your Celery, = : was planted in Drills the preceding aie es to grow unre. e them what is commonly @ Summer Pruning, which is perform’call’d d by cutting off luxuriant Branches, {topping molt OF the ftrong Branches, which occafion their Suds to produce autumnal Shoots, which Sith. hres Oe ; Dut are very injurious to the and by this general and fudthe Trees, the Fruit which was y ifile fhaded andcover’d Bidachea aie by Y the luxura the ranc. 1¢€s, are now expos 1 Air, to its no fmall Prejudice ; the Shoots had been conftantly they were produc’d, Endive that is full grown, to blanch : i iW, ferving always to do this in the Afrernon a dry Day ; for if the inner Leaves O°” Plants are moift when they are ty dup, t*) will rot. Pull and the rubb’d off, the Fruit could by any fudden Expofure, but t n equal Coverture of as it advances in Height ; and tie up Ee Ye nau be too often muft noy go over ll the weaken the Fruicbranc the Sun and Airfrom the In the Beginning of this \ bud moft Sorts of choice Fruits, CI rticular Direétions for this Work, fee under the Article Inoculation, Mowthe Grafs in Orchard s to keepit low, the Fruit now beginning to growripe andfa would be hid if the Grails w ere tall. Hoe andcleanfe your Narferies from Weeds, whhich if fuifer’d to grow, would exhauft the Strength of the Ground, and greatly weaken the ‘Trees; and look well to thofe Trees which were budded the laft Seafon, to tie them up to thar Part of the Stock which was left above the Bud, for the {trong Winds which oe happen at this Seafon are very apt to blow Place Glafs Phials, fill’d with fweet Water, in diferent Parts of your Walls, to deftroy the Wafps, which would infett your Fruits, and are by the Sweetneis of the Water tempted into th: Phials, and often drowned Lookwell after Snails in the Mornings and Evenings, but efpecially after a Shower of Rain, when they will be tempted to come abroad, and maybe at that Time eafil taken, for thefe Vermin do great Mifchiefto eonelEta Eruits'in Prime,’ or yet lafting, Pears: The Green Chiffel, Primitive Mu/cate, Mujcadelle-rouge, P, Mufk, Cui Madame, Grof lanquette, guetle-mu/que, Jargonelle, ése Poir Peau, with fome other 3 and in fome Pk: yet continues the Black Pear of Cheyne’s Green Pear. a tis’d, to the great tune ae 4 of both the Fruit and Trees) : here forbear repeating what I have than once takennotice of before; viz. fuffer your Fruit-Tre Seed of two Years old will fometimes grow as well as at the firft. And if they fow or plant exhale it; whereas, when it is given ae it late, if the Ground be dry and hard, they Morning, the Sun coming onfoon after, ftcep it in Water the Daybefore they fowit, Moifture is drawn up before it reaches the which caufes it to come up the fooner. Root. Good //oad mayyield five or fix Crops ina Gather Seeds from all fuch Herbs as are plentiful Year ; tho’ it ordinarily yields but nowripe, cutting off the Stalks, and lay them four, fometimes but three, efpecially if it be upon Mats in an open, dry, airy Place, hat tat let ftand to grow for Seed: But what grows they may harden before theyare beaten out in Winter they do not ufe, tho’ it is very good of the Husk. 1 wey for Sheep. The two firft Crops are the beft, Pull up Garlick, Rocamboles, Shalots, Onto fy which are ufually mix’d in the Seafoning. The &c. when their Leaves begin to with ne latter Crops are much the worfe, which, if fpread them thin in a dryairy Place, ae! mix’d with either of the former Crops, fpoil maybe perfectly dry before they are ale “t the whole, Pall up the Stalks of Beans, Peas, Cabbages, and all {uch Plants which have produc’d their pulling 1 Wood s of the F will not o Sy — © Dean ee Saal | fill cc aes Pomme oe Pinngee Ds ee EN ONE Ge °!9#¢ Pippin, Oaken Pin, with fome ot Cherries: Keutifh C i White Heart, Black ward, Red Bleeding He » Coroon, Common with fomeothers of lefs Note. a 03 and ; ; Rardy Admirabl Adit ge, Early L of lefs Note. a) Bo Nectarines eyes 1 fomeother ty Roman Red, airehild’s E. Plumbs: 1 ape9 Blue Pri ee tmeg, Ann; Bellis ot ‘ F / rine, and the Brunion. tive, ve, Morocco, More Violet, Royal, Blu !, Wh atch d'Or, Gros Dane Vi others, Apricocks: The Orange, Roman, Br 4 gier, Bruxelles, and Turkey, As alfo Currants, Goofeberries, Ra Strawberries, &c. And in the Stove, Pppp |
