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The Little Book of Knowledge.

June—The beginning of this month, sow Dutch and English savoy, sow sallad, seeds for latter sallads, take up your best anemonies, tuliips, and ranunculasses, sow turnip seeds in this and the next month; and transplant those favoys that were sown the last month; plant slips of myrtle, shear your sheep, the moon increasing.

July—This is the principal month to innoculate apricocks, peaches, nectarines, and roses, &c. Prune your wall trees, lay gillyflowers and carnations, sow lettuce, and spinnage, for latter sallading, 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 sided cabbage planted in may, to head in autumn. Keep weed from growing to seed, and begin your howing. Gather the snails from your wall-fruit, but pull n(illegible text) off the bitter fruit, for then they will begin with others.

Auguft—The beginning of this month sow cabbage and colliflower seed, prune superfluous branches from the wall fruit trees, unbind the buds you innoculated the month before, if they take. Sow spinnage and lettuce for latter sallading; set suckles, plant them rather in the shade than in the sun sow lark-spur, and candie-raft, co(illegible text)bbines, bo(illegible text) the bush, and such hardy plants as will endure the winter: Plant strawberries, and other garden plants Reap and gather in the harvest while the weather continues fair, for you may reap and carry in you corn, as well as make hay when the sun shines.

September—Transplant colliflowers and cabbages that were sowed in August: plant tulips, and othe bulbous roots you formerly took up, take off your