From: L'agriculture et maison rustique, Charles Estienne (Rouen, 1658).
The works that the laborer should do for each month of the year.
(Chapter 10)
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April
In April around St. George's day, put out to air the lemons and oranges like all other trees that have been shut up since St. Martins day, in which you will stirr up the earth at the bottom, remove the superficial roots there, and the superfluous branches, and don't allow a single branch to pass another, either in width or height.
Plant, if you did not already plant them, olive trees, pomegranate trees, lemons, and myrtles, and thoroughly clean them.
Enter the fig tree, chestnut, cherry and orange, cut the new vines: for in those days she endures cutting slightly more.
Be careful to give food to the pigeons, because by that time there is little in the fields.
Mate horses, asses, sheep, with their females: clean the hives of honey bees, and kill the butterflies, which abound on the mallow blooms.
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