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REMINDERS EOE JULY. 



Azaleas to be prepared for ripening 

 their wood by giving more air. Put out 

 the earliest in a shady place. 



Camellias, treat the same as azaleas, 

 and shift any that require it. Their roots 

 may be refreshed without giving larger 

 pots by turning out the ball, removing 

 some of the stuff from it, and making it 

 up again with fresh compost. Pot firm. 



Carnations are gross in some places 

 through having such an excess of rain. 

 Protect the flowers from wet, get on with 

 piping and layering without loss of time. 



Cinerarias to be propagated from 

 suckers, put in round the sides of pots in 

 very sandy compost, and keep close for a 

 week. Sow for seedling plants. 



Conservatory to have plenty of air 

 night and day, and abundance of water 

 to all growing plants, overhead as well 

 as at the roots. Neglect of watering now 

 will hereafter show sad results, especially 

 among soft wooded and liliaceous plants. 



Cucumbers, keep liberally watered, and 

 train, and thin as necessary to prevent 

 crowding. They will take almost any 

 quantity of liquid manure, if in a good 

 state at the roots. 



Dahlias must be humoured as to dis- 

 budding and tying, because every variety 

 has its own particular style of growth. 



Evergreens and shrubs of the free 



growing kinds may by propagated from 

 this time to the end of August ; cuttings 

 put in in a shady place will root imme- 

 diately. Prepare now to plant evergreens, 

 which move well from the end of J uly to 

 the end of September. In new ground 

 this is the best season to plant them, but 

 in established gardens the places intended 

 for them are generally occupied with smn- 

 nier flowers. 



Fruit Garden. — Tie in and train as 

 needful, and use the syringe to wall trees 

 if the weather should be dry, as we expect 

 it will be. Lay strawberry runners in 

 small pots with a stone on each to root 

 them. Mulch raspberries with grass 

 mowings or half rotten dung to strengthen 

 the new canes before they cease growing. 



Kitchen Garden. — Sow successional 

 crops of endive, lettuce, spinach, turnip 

 radish, peas, French beans. Also mam 

 crop of winter turnip. Plant out winter 

 greens, broccolis, and cauliflowers. Make 

 the last sowing of Statholder or Mitchell's 

 hardy cauliflower. 



Pelargoniums newly cut down to be 

 kept pretty dry till they break, then to be 

 potted in small pots. 



Vines will profit by liquid manure ; 

 keep the good bunches shaded by tying 

 the laterals over where necessary. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



" The Gardening Book op Annuals. " — " We 

 wrote you briefly ou the 2nd inst., expressing our 

 surprise and regret that the name of the author 

 or book from which the artiete on annuals was 

 transferred to our 'Amateur's Guide' bad 

 been omitted. It is our invariable cusiom (as 

 you truly say in the present number of the 

 Floral Wokld) to refer distinctly to the 

 works from which we extract, having no desire 

 whatever to claim any merit for authorship, but 

 simply to make our ' Amateur's Guide' as use- 

 ful a- possible. With such references, oar quota- 

 tions materially incre 'Se the sale of the original 

 works; and we hid not observed, until it was 

 p inted out to us by the author, that we had 

 omitted to do so iu tnis one instance. Neither 

 were we aware that the author of ' The Garden- 

 ing Book of Annuals' was engaged iu the nur- 

 sery or seed trade ; but, being apprised of this, 

 we the more regret this accidental omission, 

 both for the interests of Mr. Thompson and of 

 yourself also, who, we are sure, would be scru- 

 pulously desirous of giving ' honour to whom 

 honour' is due. We have by this post written 

 to Mr. I hompson, explaining these circum- 

 stances and expressing our regret, trusting the 

 same will be satisfactory to bim and to you." — 

 SuiroN and Sons, Reading. 



Cliantiius Uampieki.— /. ',)/., Greenock.— The 

 best plant of this fine species we have yet seen is 

 the one at Messrs. Henderson's nursery, Wel- 

 lington Road, St. John's Wood. It is in a narrow 

 span-roofed house, ventilated the whole length 



of the ridge, as well as by the front-sashes, and is 

 trained out so as to cover not less than sixteen 

 square feet of surface, and the whole densely 

 covered with the magnificent blooms of crimsou 

 with black blotch. To produce a fine plant, 

 the cultivator must manage to grow it quick, 

 but with as little artificial heat as possible. 

 The soil should be the turfiest and freshest 

 peat, cleau yellow loam from a turf stack, that 

 was well frozen and pulverized last winter, old 

 chippy cow-dung, .silver-sand, and charcoal of 

 the size of hazel-nuts, one part of each, with all 

 the dust, the who;e to be well mixed and broken 

 but not silted. In this mixture, with plenty of 

 water, a young plant will make root rapidly, 

 and to help it, splash water about pretty freely 

 on the floor of the house every night, besides 

 giving the plant a sprinkle. Ee Careful not to 

 give too much water at the roots at first or the 

 stuff will get sour. If grown in a pot, give a 

 good shift, when a shift is required, say fro n a 

 three-inch p ;t to a six-inch and not less ; but it 

 will make a finer plant in the free soil of a con- 

 servatory border. The great enemy of ali the 

 species of Clianthus is red spider, which in a 

 dry house appears on these plauis first, even 

 before attacking vines, and there is no method 

 so certain to keep spider away as growing the 

 plant quick, and sustaining its vigour when in 

 flower. When starved, it is the most miserable 

 thing to have to do with ; when well treated, it 

 cannot be surpassed. It is very nearly hardy, 

 and in some of the southern counties stands 



