To be done In the Orchard, and Olitory Garden. Sow Lettuce, Chevril, Radish, etc., to have young and tender Salleting. About the midst of June you may inoculate Peaches Abricots, Cherries, Plums, Apples, Pears, etc. You may now also (or before) cleanse Vines of exuberant branches and tendrils, cropping (not cutting) and stopping the joynt immediately before the Blossoms, and some of the under branches which bear no fruit; especially in young Vineyards when they first begin to bear, and thence forwards. Gather Herbs in the Fall, to keep dry; they keep and retain their virtue, and smell sweet, better dry’d in the shade than in the Sun, whatever some pretend. Now is your season to distill Aromatic Plants, etc. Water lately planted Trees, and put moist and half-rotten Fearn, etc, about the pot of their Stems. Look to your Bees for Swarms, and Casts; and begin to destroy Insects with Hooses, Canes, and tempting baits, etc. Gather Snails after rain, etc. Fruits in Prime, or Yet Lasting. APPLES. Juniting (first ripe), Pepins, John-apples, Robillard, Red-Fennouil, etc., French. CHERRIES, ETC.
Luke-ward, early Flanders, the Common-cherry, Spanish-black, Naples-Cherries, etc. Rasberries, Corinths, Straw-berries, Melons, etc. JUNE. To be done In the Parterre, and Flower Garden. Transplant Autumnal Cyclamens now if you would change their place, otherwise let them stand. Gather ripe seeds of Flowers worth the saving, as of choicest Oriental Jacynth, Narcissus (the two lesser, pale spurious Daffodels of a whitish green often produce varieties), Auriculas, Ranunculus’s, etc., and preserve them dry. Shade your Carnations from the afternoons Sun. Take up your rarest Anemonies, and Ranunculus’s after rain (if it come seasonable) the stalk wither’d, and dry the roots well. This about the end of the moneth. In mid June inoculate Jasmine, Roses, and some other rare shrubs. Sow now also some Anemony seeds. Take up your Tulip-bulbs, burying such immediately as you find naked upon your beds; or else plant them in some cooler place; and refresh over parched beds with water. Plant your Narcissus of Japan (that rare flower) in Pots, etc. Flowers in Prime, or Yet Lasting. Amaranthus, Antirrhinum, Campanula, Clematis Pannonica, Cyanus, Digitalis, Geranium, Horminum Creticum, Hieracium, bulbous Iris, and divers others, Lychnis, var. generum, Martagon white and red, Millefolium, white and yellow, Nasturtium Indicum, Carnations, Pinks, Ornithogalum, Pansy, Phalangium Virginianum, darks-heel early. Pilosella, Roses, Thalaspi Creticum, etc. Veronica, Viola pentaphyl, Campions or Sultans, Mountain Lilies white and red; double Poppies, Stock-jelly flowers, Jasmines, Corn-flag, Hollyhoc, Muscaria, serpyllum Citratum, Phalangium Allobrogicum, Oranges, Rose-mary, Leuticus, Pome-Granade, the Lime-tree, etc. |