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THE GARDEN GUIDE EOE AUGUST. 



Kitchen Garden. — Take stock of all 

 winter greens, and occaoy every spare 

 plot of ground with kale, Brussels sprouts, 

 cabbage, broccoli, and collards. If any of 

 the breadths are crowded, make a fresh 

 plantation by taking up every other plant, 

 so as to give the hardy kinds plenty of 

 room. Thin parsley, to get rid of every 

 plant not well curled. Earth up celery 

 and leeks, hoe between potatoes. 



Sow cauliflower the third week, to keep 

 over winter in frames. The main crop of 

 cabbage for spring use should be sown be- 

 tween the 12th and 20th. Sow also suc- 

 cession lettuce, saladings, and turnips, and 

 the main crop of winter spinach. Take 

 cuttings, or sow seed, for cucumbers to 

 fruit during winter. 



Fruit Garden-. — Nail in all good 

 shoots on wall trees, that they may have 

 the heat of the wall to ripen them. Thin 

 the shoots of gooseberries and currants. 

 Put loose nets along fruit walls, with a 

 hitch here and there to form bags to catch 



any fruit that falls. Play the garden- 

 engine against peach and nectarine trees, 

 to keep them clean and healthy. Make 

 beds of strawberries, if not yet done. 



Flower Garden. — Strike verbenas, 

 petunias, geraniums and fuchsias ; calceo- 

 larias should not be struck till next month. 

 Blue lobelias need not be struck, nor need 

 old plants be saved, as speciosa, the best 

 for edgings, comes quite true from seed. 

 Sow hardy perenuials and biennials for 

 next season's blooming. Those fit for 

 planting out, plant where they are to re- 

 main. Put stakes to chrysanthemums 

 before their heads get heavy. Pompones 

 may be struck for blooming in 60 -sized 

 pots. Plant out pinks and carnations in 

 well-manured loam Bud roses in dull 

 weather, water chrysanthemums, with 

 occasional doses of strong liquid manure. 

 Repot auriculas if necessary. Almost 

 every kind of herbaceous plants and 

 evergreen shrubs may now be propa- 

 gated. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Commemorative Flowers. — A. D. (Ire- 

 land) wishes to know what are the best 

 subjects wherewith to decorate a vase 

 with white flowers, in memory of one 

 who was taken at the age of fifteen, and 

 who was especially fond of her garden 

 and white flowers. A. D. has always 

 kept the vase well filled herself, but 

 fears (as she is likely to go abroad) it 

 may be neglected, unless distinct in- 

 structions are left ; and it is requested 

 that the Editor of the Floral World 

 will suggest a few white flowers for each 

 month of the year, so that drawings can be 

 made of them for future reference. The 

 vase is large enough to hold a good-sized 

 pot in the centre, and small ones around it; 

 and there is a large bell glass that tits on 

 the rim (with compartments to open), 

 so as to enable camellias, azaleas, forced 

 tulips, etc., to be protected from the 

 weather. [The Editor would gladly 

 Lave complied with the desire expressed 

 for a private communication in reply to 

 the above, but his many engagements 

 press him too closely to leave time for 

 gratifying the wish of A. D. Possibly, 

 however, the few remarks which follow 



may be of more real service in a printed 

 than a written form. Let us becun, 

 then, with January. For this season, 

 Laurestinus, Snowdrop, Snowberry tree, 

 with berries, Leucojum vernum, and 

 single and double white Primulas, will 

 be available ; but it will demand some 

 skill and care both to produce them and 

 keep them, because of the severe 

 weather to which they may sometimes 

 be exposed, though sheltered with a 

 glass vase. For February the following 

 crocuses will be available ; namely, 

 Mont Blanc, Diana, Ell'rida, Queen Vic- 

 toria, and Caroline Chisholm. The first 

 and last are the best. Hyacinths, 

 Bridal Bouquet, Grand Vainqueur, La 

 Candeur, and Reine Blanche. In this 

 month also Snowdrops, the common 

 single, the common double, and the 

 Crimean, will be useful ; but it would 

 be rash to put out camellias and azaleas, 

 except under peculiar circumstances. 

 Others from the January list might also 

 be used, if the cultivation provided a 

 succession of such things as white pri- 

 mulas, etc. In March, hyacinths and 

 crocuses would again be useful. To 



