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be watered. These dustings will require repeating at intervals until 

 the plants have two or three rou^h leaves each. The beds of cabbage 

 and cauliflowers will require the same attention to prevent their 

 destruction. In showery weather this close attention is not quite as 

 needful, for the plants are able to make such rapid progress that the 

 fly is not capable of doing much harm. 



The beans must, of course, be sown in the ordinary manner. 

 They are simply intended for successional supplies, and where there 

 is already a good crop of both dwarf and runners coming on, it will be 

 unnecessary to sow any more of the former for the present. A sowing 

 of ruimers about the middle of the month will be usel'ul for supple- 

 menting the earlier-sown cro() in the autumn, when the latter, as is 

 generaDy the case when the weather keeps open until an advanced 

 period, ceases to be productive. 



Thinning the spring-sown crops will still engage the attention of 

 tlie cultivator, and, without speaking upon this matter in detail, I 

 would observe that this work should be proceeded with in a gradual 

 manner, so that the crop may not be thinned too severely at first, 

 and, at the same time, not become crowded. A moist state of the 

 .soil will allow of the surplus plants being removed without dis- 

 placing or otherwise injuring those remaining ; and it should, there- 

 fore, be taken advantage of as far as circumstances will permit. 



Watering should, as a rule, be limited to newdy-})lanted or sown 

 crops, for applications of water to those well established is likely to 

 do more harm than good. 



Vegetable marrows sown the first week in June wall give abun- 

 dance of fruit in August and September. 



THE GAEDEN GUIDE EOR JUNE. 



" And after her came iolly Inne, arrayd 

 All in greene leave.i, as he a ])layer were ; 

 Yet in Jiis time lie wrouglit as well as playd, 

 That by his plough-yrous mote right well appearo: 

 Upon a Crab he rode, that him did beare 

 With crooked crawling steps an uncouth pase. 

 And backward >orle, as bargemen wont to fare, 

 Uendiiig their force contrary to their face, 

 Like that ungracious crew which faines demui'est grace." 



Sl'ENSEE. 



JHE somewhat gloomy forecast of May that we ventured 

 upon in the last number, has been more than justified 

 by the painful and destructive weather of the month 

 now closed. The barometer has been unusually high, 

 the amount of rain so small that the wells are fast 

 becoming dry, and the cold so intense and prolonged that the fruit 

 crop is in great part destroyed, and vegetation everywhere has a 

 blighted appearance, as if a devouring flame had passed over the 

 land. June is usually a bright mouth, the average rain being 

 under two inches, with a steady barometer ranging above the mean 



Juce. 



