216 THE FLORAL WOELD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



Ciliatura, and in every way desirable. Prince of Wales, has flowers 

 of a reddish-orange, and is highly meritorious. Virgatum album, is 

 very neat in habit, and produces large trusses of pure white flowers. 

 They all thrive in good fibrous peat, to which a liberal sprinkling 

 of saud has been added, and require well-drained poiis. When the 

 plants are small, they may be sliifted annually, just after the new 

 growth has been completed being the best time. Pots one size 

 larger at each shift will suffice, and it may be well to state here 

 that over-potting is most injurious to them. Specimens will not 

 require repotting oftener than once in two or three years. They 

 require moderately liberal supplies of water at all seasons of the 

 year, more moisture being, of course, required during the spring and 

 summer than in the autu.iin and winter, when they are enjoying a 

 comparative state of rest. After the end of May they are better 

 placed out of doors in a shady position, where tbey can remain until 

 the end of September. 



THE GAEDEN GUIDE EOR JULY. 



"Then came hot luly boyling like to fire, 

 That all liis garments he bad east away : 

 Upon a Lyon raging yet with ire 

 He boldly rode, and made him to obay : 

 (It was the beast that whylome did forray 

 The Nemacan forest, till tli' Ampbytrionide 

 Him slew, and with his hide did him array :) 

 Bebinde bis back a sithe, and by bis side 

 Under his belt be bore a sickle circling wide." 



Spensee. 



^HE garden flowers are now becoming less plentiful tlian 

 tliey have been during the last month, yet there are 

 sufficient to make a good display of colour, backed up, 

 as they are, with the summer bedders and the spring- 

 sown annuals. In addition to these two classes of 

 plants, we may have delphiniums, pentstemons, antirrhinums, 

 perennial phloxes, lupins, and lilies. 



The garden work of July is similar in some respects to that of 

 last month. Amongst the most important of the many duties 

 requiring the attention of the cultivator is the budding of roses, 

 propagating of herbaceous plants, pinks, and picotees, and the train- 

 ing of the growth of the fruit-trees, and the layering of strawberries 

 for forcing or making new beds. 



Flower Gaeden. — This garden ought to be unusually gay this 

 month, for, with proper attention, the bedders will now be well 

 established, and the flowering plants in full bloom. This is a most 

 suitable time for propagating many herbaceous plants by means of the 

 young side-shoots. Polyanthuses that are wished to be increased may 

 be taken up and divided early in the month. The rose-beds must be 

 looked over very frequently, and all suckers removed. The old 

 flowering shoots should also be cut back, and the trees have a few 



