3d. To keep trees in orchards in good health, and full bearing, and free from mols and canker, every year, cut the old wood out and cankered branches, and all branches that shoot acrofs. By this method the wall-trees are preferved young and in a flourishing state for years.

4th. In all new-planted trees, if the withered leaves fall and drop off on handling, be affured the root is alive, and fresh shooting, and that the tree will be new-cloathed, with leaves, and live; but if the leaves wither, and do not drop, but preferve their hold of the branches, the root is perifhing, and the tree will die.

5th. To know if the bloffoms of a fruit tree are likely to fet well, you must take one or two of the bloffoms, and ftrip, the flower from the ftamin or italk that bears the fruit; and, if that ftamin be clammy or furrounded with honey, as may be seen through a magnifying-glafs, the fruit will fet; if, on the contrary, the itamin is dry and void of that honey, there will be little or no fruit.j

6th. If a tree runs too much to root, it will spoil its bearing, as is too often the cafe with new-planted trees that are fet too deep in the ground, as fresh roots will ftrike from the item above the old root; when this happens, the ground fhould be opened, and fome of the roots cut away. It is recommended in the planting of young trees, to put a flag-stone under it, to caufe the roots to run horizontally in the good ground, and keeping the tap, or main root, from running down into the bad and barren foil.

7th. All stone fruit, fuch as Peaches, Nectarines, Plumbs, Cherries, &c. cannot be pruned too early; but kernel-fruit, as Apples, Pears, &c. may be pruned when ia bloffom, or farther in the fummer. Any tree may be pruned of large branches, or limbs, &e. but it is advifable in fummer pruning, to put on the cut, or wounded part fome of Mr. Griffiths' improved compofition, as recommended in last month's magazine.

8th. To keep flugs and fnails from french-beans, and all other tender plants, &c. you must strew the parts of the ground round them with barley-chaff. The bodies of flugs, &c. being tender, cannot bear the prickly beards of the barley, and of course they will not come near the plants.

9th. Early french-beans, if liable to be injured by frosty nights, may be preserved by watering them before fun-rife. This early watering will bring the frost out of them, let them be ever fo much trozen. So winter-fallading, it frozen ever so stiff, when cut for ufe, fhould be washed two or three times in cold spring water, to get out the frott; or any other vegetables may be freed from froft the fame way.

10th. Cucumbers may be drawn to a great length, by laying a long bottle, (fuch a one as they pickle capers in) before the cucumber with water in it. NOTE, the water draws the fruit fo much, that you muit shift the bottle back every day, not to let the cucumber touch the water. The Levant cucumber is best.

11th. To destroy worms, in gardens and pleasure grounds, use the following ingredients. To every hogfhead of water, put one pound of Bay falt, and one bushel of foot, and four gallons of foap-makers lees, mixing all together, and let it stand for three or four days, stirring it three or four times in a day; and, after fun-set, water your ground with it.

The following is Mr. GRIFFITH's new and elegant difcovery, to extract the essence of flowers, &c. and will amufe the Ladies who are fond of gardening, fine perfumes, &c.

Preferve a quantity of the petals, or cups, of any flowers which have an agreeable fragrance, card thin layers of cotton, which dip in the fineft Florence or Lucca Oil, fprinkle a fmall quantity of fine falt on the flowers, and lay them, a layer of cotton and a layer of flowers, till an earthen veffel or wide-mouthed glafs bottle is full; tie the top clofe with a bladder-covering. Lay the veffel in a fouth afpect, to the heat of the fun, and in fixteen days, when uncovered, a fragrant oil may be squeezed away from the whole mafs, little inferior (if that flower is employed) to the dear and highly-valued effence of Rofes, &c. &c.

GARDENER'S KALENDAR FOR MARCH.

AKE hot-beds and ridges for cucumbers and melons

rule all the fummer. Plant Windfor and other beans. Dutch turnips between the rows, for an early crop.

Put in more Charlton and

Sow or drill fome white Transplant cabbages and cauli

flowers.

flowers. Sow common and Dutch parfley: the latter must be thinned to seven inches when high enough. Sow fmall fallad till October in open ground, then in hot-beds till March.

In the middle of the month, fow cele y in a warm situation fow spinage and radishes in open ground. Fork aiparagus beds; make new ones where wanted. Sow brown Dutch, cabbage, green cofs and white cofs lettuces in open ground. Line cucumberbeds if the heat finks; give them air if too hot. Transplant the cauliflowers raifed in a hot-bed laft month into another hot-bed, where the mould is thicker; let them ftand till fit to put out. Sow dandelion; plant it out when big enough, then plant it out again to blanch. Raile liquorith; clean straw berries from ftrings, &c. Sow nafturtiums; Sow more onions and carrots; fow purflaiu in open ground. Raife

tomatoes.

At the end of the month, fow winter and summer savory, forrel, marygold, small fallad, marjoram, both knotted and sweet, and fhallots. Plant kidney beans on a moderate hot-bed, for an early crop. Plant asparagus and fow the feed. Sow white Dutch turnips in moift weather. Drefs and flip artichokes. Slip all forts of aromatic plants for the herbary; such as thyme, sage, rosemary, pennyroyal, balm, favory, &c. Sow burnet, forrel, tarragon, fennel, fweet marjoram, knotted marjoram, fummer and winter-favory, plant fhallots, and chives. Thin fpinage. Move the ground between what is lett to make it good and plenty. Sow French beans in a warm dry fituation; and Battersea or fpeckled beans. Put in more Windfor beans. Sow cardoons.

FRUIT. Finish pruning; fhelter blossoms from frost, horizontally, and from perpendicular dew. Drefs ftrawberries with fresh earth; and pull off their ftrings. Dig between rafberries, currants and goofeberries. Finish planting, and fill up all vacancies. Prune fig-trees. Clear borders from weeds. Move the furface of the earth about the trees.

FLOWERS. Transplant fibrous and shelter bulbous plants. Sow hardy annuals to stand; fow biennials and perennials. Put fresh earth into pots of carnations, &c. Shelter auriculas from cold winds and fhade them from hot fun. Sow poppies, venus looking-glass, rofe-campion, valerian, fox glove, acanthus, ftocks of different forts, and fow tenweek locks once a fortnight. Part or flip fibrous rooted plants; viz. gentianella, double white rocket, cardinal flower, fcarlet lychnis, rofe-campions, double wallflowers, hollyhocks, perennial funflowers, after, monkshood, fweet-williams, &c. Plant tuberoles in pots of fresh earth; plant flips of the paffion-tree. Transplant the layers of carnations, if not done in autumn. Sow all kinds of hardy annuals where they are to remain, and perennials in beds to tranfplant.

BIRTH S.

N Ufher's-Iand, the lady of Baron O'Dowda, of a fon. Mrs. Reynolds, of

daughter.

in Jervis-treet, Mrs.

MARRIAGES.

T Limerick, the Hon. Edward Mafiey, fecond fon to the late Rt. Hon. Lord

Stevelly, junior, Efq. to Mrs. Collis, widow of the late John Fitzgerald Collis, Eiq. -James Berkley Loughlin, Elq. Barrister at Law, to Mif Warner, of Marlboroughftreet.-John Maxwell, of Townlend-street, Efq. to Mits Caroline Collins, of Marlborough-ftreet.-Herbert Rawfon Stepney, of Abbington, Efq. to Miis Bourke, daughter of the late Theobald Bourke, Efq. of O'Brien's Bridge,

DEATH S.

AT Limerick, Mrs. Hayes, wife of Jeremiah Hayes, of Killurane, Efq. and

daughter to Thomas Brown, of New-Grove, co. Clare, Efq.-In upper Merrionftreet, the Rt. Hon. Margaret, Baronefs Cloncurry.-Mr. Richard Woodward, one of the choirifters of Chrift-church.-In Great George's-ftreet, Rutland-square, Mifs Rachael Madden.-In Baggot-ftreet, Mrs. Pafferini, fen. relict of the late Mr. Pafferini. The Rt Rev. Dr. Charles Doggfon, Lord Bishop of Elphin, a Fellow of the Royal Society in London, and a member of the Dublin Society.-At Headford, co. Meath, the Rt. Hon. Thomas Earl Bective, Viscount Headtort, knight of the Order of St. Patrick, Privy Counsellor, &c.-At Waterford, mafter Patrick Blackney, ion of John Blackney, Eiq.-In England, the Rev. Dr. King, Dean of Raphoe.

THE

SENTIMENTAL AND MASONIC

MAGAZINE,

FOR MARCH, 1795.

JOHN JONES, No. III, GRAFTON-STREET,

OPPOSITE THE COLLEGE.

Acknowledgments to Correfpondents.

THE POEM, by Mr. CHARTERS, fhall appear in a future Month, accom panied with a Plate fuitable to the Subject: As fhall alfo,

The PEASANT'S RHETORIC, by M. E. O'BRIEN, Efq.

The TENDER SHEPHERDESS, dedicated to the COUNTESS FITZWILLIAM, by the fame, fhall appear in our next. Also,

The Jew and CHRISTIAN, a Fable.

The SONG of MOSES, after his paffing through the Red Sea, in Blank Verse:

The AUTHOR to his Book, in Imitation of HORACE: Written as a Preface for a Gentleman who was about to publish his Poems,

The APPROACH of SPRING, a Poem; and

ALICIA: a moral Fragment.

Several other Pieces have been received from Correfpondents, which are under Confideration.