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tice and spinage for latter salading; transplant or remove tulips or other bulbous roots plant cuttings of myrtles, but let them not have too much sun at first. Remove your large side cabbage planted in May, to bead in autumn. Keep weeds frem growing to seed, and begin your howing. Gather the snails from your wall-fruit, but pull not off the bitten fruit, for then they will begin with others.

August. The beginning of this monfh for cabbage and colliffowers seed; prune superfluous branches from the wall-fruit trees; unbind the buds you inoculated the month before, if they take. Sow spinage and lattice for latter salading; set suckles, plant them rather in the shade than the sun, sow lark, spar and candiruf, columbines, bobin in the bush, and such hardy plants as will endure the winter; plant strawberries and other garden plants; reap and gather in your harvest while the weather continues fair, for you may reap and carry in your corn, as well as make hay, when the sun shines.

September. Transplant colliflowers and cabbage that were sowed in August. Plant turnips and bulbous roots you formerly took up; take off your carnation layers, and plant them where they are to stand the winter; remove fruit trees from September till March except it frost; set or cut, bays, laurels, &c. Transplant most sort of herbs and flowers, gather hopes the beginning of this month, and sow your wheat and rye.

October. Set beans and pease; sow all sorts of fruit-trees, as nuts kernals and seeds,, either for trees or stocks, in this or the next month; plant all fruit-trees that have shed their leaves; trench stiff land.

November. Sow beans and pease; prune all sorts of fruit-trees, and begin to cut and trim wall trees; lay up carrots, parsnips, cabbages, either for your use or seed; cover your asparagus or artichokes; set nuts and kernels; ye may plant tulips.

December. Set beans and pease if the weather