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Kalendarium Hortense.

JUNE

Hath xx% Days.,—-long i6 h —.17™

Sun rises 3 h —51 m ‘-Sets o8 h —09™

To be done

In the Orchard and Olitory Garckn.

S O W Lettuce , Chervil, Radijh , £tc. to have young and tenderSalleting.

About the midst of June you may Inoculate Reaches, Abricots,Cherries, Blums , Apples^ Rears, &c. On what Stocks, lee Ao-vember.

You may now also, ( or in May before ) cleanse Vines of exuberantBranches and Tendrels, cropping (not cutting) and stopping the se-cond Joint, or immediately before the Fruit , and some of the underBranches which bear no Fruit ; especially in young Vineyards, whenthey first begin to bear, and thence forwards; binding up the rest toRrops. • More ample Directions for the Nursery this Month’s, begin-• ning. See Disc. of Earth , p. 14.

Gather Herbs in the Full to keep dry; they keep and retain theirVirtue and sweet Smell, * provided you take the same Care as you do• in Hay, that you expose them not in too thin, but competent Heaps,* which you may turn and move till they be reasonably dry, not brit-• tie • and the sooner it be dispatched, the better: The Gardiner there-* fore lhould attend it himself, for there is very great difference in* the Virtue of Plants, according as they are dry’d.

* To preserve the Colour of Flowers or Herbs, they should be dry’d• in the Shade ; but they will be apt to contract Mustinels, unless ssiew-• ed to the Sun a little.

Now is your Season to distill Aromatick Rlants, SCc.

Water lately planted Trees, and put moist and half rotten Fearn,&c. about the Foot of their Stems, having first clear’d them ofWeeds, and a little stirred the Earth.

* Now because the excessive Scorchings of this and the two follow-• ing Months (and not seldom the Winters also) do frequently en-* danger the untimely falling both of Blojfom and Fruit before their* Maturity; place a Vessel of impregnated Water near the Stem of the* Tree, and lap a reasonable long Piece of Flannel, or other Woollen• or Linnen Clout about it, letting one end thereof hang in the Wa-- ter, by which the Moisture aseending, will be suck’d through the very• Bark, and consequently nourissi and invigorate the Tree to repro-• duce its former Verdure : The Water is to be supply’d as you find it* convenient, and no longer, lest it sob your Stem too much. This* manner of refressiing is more to be preferjr’d, than by suffering it to• drop only upon the Earth ( which yet in other Occasions is profita-• ble ) per lingulam ; which, if too plentifully, endangers the chilling• and rotting of the Fibres. 4 ,

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