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good closes of liquid manure to aid in the production of a good 

 autumn bloom. Budding must be proceeded with ; if the stocks do 

 not run freely, a thorough watering will generally start them. The 

 evening is the best time for budding. Towards the end of the mouth 

 the wood will be in proper order for making cuttinijs. Evergreens 

 may now be pruned, and their growth regulated. The annuals that 

 are past their best should be cleared away, to prevent the garden 

 having an untidy appearance. If it is intended to save seed from the 

 bei'baceous plants, cut the old flower-spikes directly the lower seed- 

 pods begin to ripen, and stick them in pots filled with wet sand, and 

 placed over a large sheet of paper indoors, to catch the seed. Where 

 it is intended to increase the stock of pinks, picotees, and carnations, 

 propagation must be comioenced in the early part of the month, 

 either by pipings or layers. 



Greenhouse. — To take the place of flowering plants now being 

 removed to the open air, introduce such ornamental-leaved plants as 

 may be available for the purpose. Hard-wooded plants that flowered 

 late, and were kept indoors to finish the growth, should go out of 

 doors now. Roses in pots should be plunged, to prevent the soil 

 drying up quickly, and rendering a lot of watering necessary. All 

 soft-wooded stuff" growing freely, such as petunias, fuchsias, zonale 

 geraniums, browallias, etc., should be encouraged with liquid manure 

 until they come into flower. Pelargoniums that have ripened their 

 young wood nicely must be cut- back to two or three eyes at once, 

 and kept rather dry until the buds push. 



Stove. — The routine work of watering, air-giving, etc., must bo 

 well attended to. More air must be admitted, now the greater part 

 of the plants have made the season's growth, to insure their thorough 

 maturation. Achimenes and gloxinias will continue in flower much 

 longer if helped with liquid manure. All subjects for winter decora- 

 tion must have every encouragement to become strong by autumn. 



Kitchen Gauden. — Surface watering does more barm than good; 

 therefore, unless labour is abundant, and the time can be spared to 

 follow it up, leave watering alone. Tomatoes ought to be stopped 

 just above the cluster of fruit, and be well pinched in, if plenty of 

 fine fruit is expected. Continue to plant out all the winter stuff as 

 fast as possible ; the evening is the best time. Keep the celery well 

 watered, and plant out the main crop. Let every pod be removed 

 from both runners and dwarf beans directly they are large enough 

 for gathering. Sow the main crop of turnips, and successional 

 supplies of lettuce, radish, spinach, small salad, a few rows of early 

 peas, and a bed of cauliflowers. The principal crop of cauliflowers 

 and French beans in bearing will receive considerable help from a 

 thick coat of short litter or other mulching material about the roots. 



FituiT Garden. — Thin, stop, and train the young growth of wall 

 and other fruit-trees. Thin out the fruit before it becomes too large. 

 Proceed with layering strawberry-runners, both for forcing and 

 making new beds. Plants layered in pots, and planted out when 

 well rooted in thoroughly trenched ground, will bear well next 

 summer. 



Pits and Frames. — Sow herbaceous calceolarias and cyclamens 



July. 



