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sometimes does at that season, water must be frequently and liberally 

 applied until the plants are fairly established in their fresli quarters. 

 As soon as the planting is finished, have all the shoots \vlnch are 

 long enough pegged down in a regular manner. Annuals whieh have 

 come up tiiick should be thinned out so as to allow them sufficient 

 space for their full development. A further sowing may be made 

 for autumn flowering. Grass and gravel will require constant atten- 

 tion, and the scythe and broom, or mowing-machine and roller, must 

 be used freely if neatness is desired. The llose-maggot will be par- 

 ticularly busy, and will do much damage ; and unless a careful and 

 almost daily war of extermination is maintained against this pest, 

 " Roses in June" may be hardly worth the name. Many plants 

 which serve to enliven the parterre during the early spring months 

 will become somewhat unsightly, as they will have done flowering, 

 and the foliage of many will soon become brown. All such things 

 should be removed, taking care to lift them with as little injury to 

 their roots as possible, and to plant them in some well- prepared soil, 

 watered and shaded from the sun, until they can emit fresh roots. 

 Very many of our spring- flowering plants may be thus removed with- 

 out their sustaining the slightest injury, and they can be returned to 

 where they are wanted to Hower when the autumn frost has cut otl' 

 the half-hardy plants. 



Fuchsias. Those that have been forced for early flowering may 

 shortly be removed to a cool house. Should any plants not have 

 been removed from their winter-quarters, pot and trim directly ; they 

 will bloom well in September, October, and November. Shift seed- 

 lings ; keep them pretty close during this month; towards the end 

 of the month remove to a cool house, beginning with the strongest 

 plants : they will bloom between July and September. 



Greenhouse. The proper treatment of the greenhouse at this 

 season depends so much upon its inmates, and the purpose for which 

 it is used, that it is very difficult to give such directions as will be 

 applicable to all cases. Much assistance will be derived from careful 

 attention to other portions of the Remembrancer. If the house is 

 used for the accommodation of a general collection of young growing 

 plants, strict heed should be paid to their natural habitats, and 

 they should be arranged with as much regard to this as circumstances 

 will allow ; less or more air can be given by the different ventilators, 

 according to the wants of the plants which are opposite them ; and 

 although this arrangement does not afford the opportunity of treating 

 the plants so nicely according to their wants as if they were placed 

 in different houses, it will, with assiduous attention, be found useful. 

 Camellias and Azaleas which have done flowering should be i)laced 

 in the closest end of the house until their growth is completed and 

 their flower-buds formed. While growing they will be greatly bene- 

 fited by a liberal use of the syringe during morning and evening ; 

 and the same may be observed in regard to nearly all young growing 

 stock. It will be of great advantage to such things if they can have 

 a slight shade against the violence of the sun during bright days; 

 but this ought not to be applied early in the morning, nor allowed 



