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Show he Mint, Baum, and many other edicinal Plants; as alfo Purflain, Melons, Fi a, Parfly, Sorrel, h many others, k to be done in the Fruit-Garden and Orchard. Begin to inoculate Stone-Fruits towards the Middle of the Month, doing it in an Evening or in cloudy Weather. Look over your Wall Trees and Efpaliers, rubbing offall fore-right or exuberant Branches, laying in your young Wood regularly to the Wall at equal Diftance; but do not fhorten any Branches at this Seafon (as is too often practis’d) which will caufe the fide Buds to fhoot out and weaken the Branches. Your Vines muft now be regularly faftened up either to the Walls, Efpaliers, or if in Vineyards, to the takes, as their Shoots are produced, for if they are fuffered to hang down, their Leaves will turn their Surfaces the wrong Way, which when the Shoots are afterwards train’d up, will caufe the back Part of their Leaves to be upwards, wherebythe Fruit will be retarded until they have taken their proper Pofition again; and at this Seafon pull off all fmall fide Shoots, and trailing Branches, which if left on, will rob the ftronger Shoots, andalfo exclude the Sun and Air from the Fruit. Gather fuch Peaches and Ne ines aS grow too clofe together, leaving them four orfix Inches afunder, according to the Size of ir Fruit, and keep the Groundclear from Weeds, both in the Nurfery, and alfo round your aring Trees, nor fhould you fuffer any Sort of {trong rooting Plants to grow too near them, which would rob them oftheir No fhment and greatly weaken their Fruit-branches. : L 0k well after Snails and other Vermin, which at this Seafon greatly infeft your tender Fruits i \ In dry Weather, water fuch Trees as were planted late in the Spring, ob erving to Keep the Surface of the Ground cover’d with Mulch, to prevent the Earth fror and nail in fuch Shoots as thofe ’ produced in an horizontal Pofition obfery to keep the middle Part of the Mee open efpecially for the two firft Years, for ther will be no Danger ofthat Part being unfurnithed, Fruits in Prime, or yet lajt L aedu ea k, £Re arly N\ } j 3 and in . orcing Frames feveral Sorts of Peaches, tarines. Grap, rh Angin es rapes, Apric nk: ocks, &c,- and in the ©, the duanas or Pir I Work to be done in the Flower-Gar den, Bo cretien, By Maarfome ee . and other Sorts ea, ; of Pe : gli/ta 3 well | e Pinks, Sweet-Williams, and fach other F rooted Flowers as are propagated obferving to water them affoon aSbyIt I ayers, is per- Lantana’ of various Col Dens Canis, Fritillaria’s, and fach other Bulbous-rooted Plants whofe Leave s being decay’d, will not endure to be kept long above. ground: Andtake up the Roots of Anemo Ranunculus’s and Tulips, after a Showe r, clean. te and Red, Monk’s-hood, G Blue-feather'd Hyacinth, Double White ain rk-[purs of feveral Scabious, Sweet ! Peas, lafting Peas, feveral i f Mountain Smooth) Sorts of Thrift, Sea Holly, Tranfplant Cyclamens, Colchicums, Saffron, fing them fromFilth, and lay themto dry ina fhady Place before you put them up. The Roots of your Hyacinths, which were taken up the laft Month, and laid in Earth to ripen, may now be taken out and clear’d from all decay’d Leaves, andother Filth, and fpread to dry in an airy fhady Place, Cut off the Stalks of fuch Flowers as have done blowing, and are wither’d; and tie up all fuch as are yet in Flower, or that are to come late in the Autumn, for they are very apt to break down with very ftrong Winds, Your Carnations, which now begin to burft their Pods, fhould be open’d on the other Side, or in two other Places, to make blow equally ; and their Pots fhouldbe pla upon a Stage (as was direéted in the Ar of Carnations) to prevent their being injur’d by Infeéts, and their Flowers cover’d with Glaffes, to defend them from Wet, and the direct Rays of the Sun, both whichare very injurious to them. Tranfplant into Nurfery-beds all fach Sorts of Biennial, Perennial, Fibrofe-rooted Flower s as were fownin the § : ‘rench flo fanterbury Bells, Honey-fuckles, 5 inks, ONS, ry with many oth ij ” St ing them fufficient Room to grow until Szptember, when they may be tranfplanted the Borders of the Pleafure den, to remain for Flowering, ; Tranfplant Annuals out of the Hot-bedinto Pp, i ots and Borders of the Pleafure Garden, obferving to do it in a moilt cloudy Day, or in the Evening, giving them fome Wa {ettle the Earth to their Roots. Teast Sah 7 % . ~ Plants nowin Flower in the Pleafure-Garden Stock Fuly-flowers of feveral Sorts, Wall-flow Single and Dou, French H [uci te and Red, Lo 1 Flos Adonis, ¢ dweet-Williams, Dot feveral Sorts of Dai range Lily, Martagons feveral Sorts, § feveral Sor » Bloody Cranes. Canterbu Bell, Peach > Luphorbium’s, Sec Fairchild’s ti 1, Uy Mule, idea’ and Alpine Blue Sea Hollies, Golden Rodof two or three Kinds, Sir George Wheeler’s Tut [a igella, or Fennel-flower of feveral sracium’s feveral Sorts, Sun-fla vd White Li t loves, Gladiolus’s al Hellebore, Fema | Africans, Indian Pink ; Periwinckles, Broad-leav’d flower'd, and deep 1 Apocynum’s or Dog’s-banes, Yellow Perennial te Tangier Fumitories, Day Lily, Sea agwort, Tome Carnations, with feveral others oflefs Note. rees and Shrubs which are hardy, now in Flow Bladder Sena, Rofes of feveral nd Single Virgins Bi Ciftus?s al Sorts, Moon Trefoil, Spanifh : Wild Oli arf, 2 Italian, Late Red, Ge f= glifo Long -flowering, and common or uckles ; Nettle olio, Catesby’s e, Lime Clim or Tree, Uprigh at Ca Woody Night-/oade, Mallow , Tulip Tree, Shrub Cinj “ee Germander, Perennial ium or Baje Horehound, with fome ers of lefs Note. Work to be done in the Green-houfe and Stove. Your Oranges, which now begin to flower, thould have the Earth upon the Surface of low like a Bafon to contain the Water given them; and pull off the Flowers as they open, leaving but few to produce Fruit, and thofe fituated upon the ftrongeft Parts of the Tree 5 t when too many Flowers are left upon : it fo weakens the Trees, that if they Go bring their Fruit to Maturity, they fel— recover their former Strengthin feveral nt Cuttings of Myrtles in a Bedoflight th, obferving to water andfhade them ne Seafon may require, as alfo Cuttings the feveral Sorts of Geranium’s, Cyti Sy Ox-eye Daizy, Red and Button Double and Single, ‘moft other woody Plants, treating them the manner directed under their feveral Rofe Campions both White W Di > i tyledon’s, and other fucculent Plants, layir g in a fhady Part of the Stove to dry about a Week or a Fortnight before they are planted. Stir up the Bark in thofe Hot-beds which have been long made, and addalittle frefh Bark to them, which will renew their Heat, plunging your Pots down again immediately : But do this in fine foft Weather, left, by ex: ina cold 1 pofing the Plants to the open Air Day, they fhould fuffer. Tranfplant fuch Seedling Exotick Plants were rais’d in the Spring into larger Pots, fheltering them from the Violence of the Sun and Wind; and fuch of them as are very tender, fhould be plunged into a new HotBed, to bring them forward. You may now tranfplant the Ca panula, whofe Leaves are now qu planting the Roots into Pots oflight, ricl frefh Earth, fetting them in the Shade, giving them verylittle Water until the Plants appear is Seafon fhould be Hemanth Exotick, Bulbous, and Tuberofe-rooted Plants whofe Leaves are decay’d. : In fine Weather you may openthe Glaffes of the Stove, to give Air to the Plants: But when the Sun is very hot, the Glaffes on the Top ofthe Stove fhould be cover’d, to fer the Plants from the violent Heat of the and obferve to refrefh them often with Water, as alfo to cleanfe their Leaves fromInfects, or any kind of Filth which they may have contracted. ; : Refreth your Pine Ap pretty often wit! 1 Water: But do not give them too much at once, which is often very hurtful to them; and be careful to fhade the Glaffes over them in the Heat ofthe Day. Plants now Oranges, Lemons, G i of feveral their Tubs or Pots ftirr’d, and a little very rotten Cow-dung laid thereon, making it hol- and bite Flowers Red, White, and Garden Valeri b Blue and White Fle thalmums of feveral Sorts, L. You mayalfo fhift any of your Green-hou | ?lants into larger Pots; tho’ the Months of April and May much pr to this, for that Worl Take off Cuttings fromt form’d. Iris’s, 2 or her Apples ; ¢ Black 1 You muft now lay down your Cary feveral Kinds, tyledon’s, Aloes of feveral Kinds, of Paff : fome ch Phyfick N Tree, Dwarf Pomegranate leav’d Sumach, Indian Cane, of feveral Sorts, Amomum Pl of Apocynum or Dogs-b panula, Anemono Polygala Africana, Wi AE thiopica flore Ph Senfitive Meli nthus l or Honey feveral others. JUNIPERUS, [isderiv’dofjunior younger, andparicus, Lat, bringing forth, becaufe this Qqqq Plant |