136 THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. June, 



kinds in the Kitchen Garden look in a vigorous, healthy, growing condition, very 

 different to what they did in June last year. Peas and Beans, having been in 

 flower early last month, will be fit for use early. The main crops of some kinds 

 of vegetables having been sown, the principal work now to be attended to is to 

 thin them out properly and in time, and to stir up the soil between the rows 

 frequently with a hoe. A small row of Celery for early use should now be 

 planted in a well-manured trench ; but the principal crop for autumn and winter 

 use should not be planted out before next month, as when planted out early, should 

 dry weather set in, it is apt to "run," and it is seldom so nice and tender as 

 when grown quickly on later in the season. Good breadths of Broccoli of sorts, 

 Brussels Sprouts, Savoys, and Borecole should be planted out about the middle 

 of the month. Cauliflowers for successional crops, also Lettuces, should be 

 planted. Peas, Beans, French Beans, and Scarlet Runners for late crops should be 

 sown in the early part of the month. Turnips and Spinach for succession should 

 be sown. Tomatos should be planted and nailed up to a south wall. Sweet 

 Basil and Marjoram should be planted on a south border. If Cucumbers and 

 Melons have a nice steady bottom heat, they will not require any further attention 

 than giving plenty of air, watering when necessary, and stopping and thinning 

 out the shoots to prevent them getting overcrowded. After showers, weeds will 

 spring up fast ; if hoed over the first fine day, they soon die, but if neglected, they 

 will require more labour to get rid of them. 



Fruit trees will now require constant attention. The young shoots of Peaches 

 and Nectarines should be nailed in or tied as they advance in growth. Apples, 

 Pears, and Plums .should be gone over frequently, and the shoots thinned or 

 stopped and nailed in when wanted. I must repeat the advice already given 

 respecting the necessity of well thinning all kinds of fruit when it can be done ; 

 there cannot possibly be a greater mistake in fruit-growing than to allow any tree 

 to carry too heavy a crop. Besides the injury to the tree, it is much preferable 

 to have a reasonable crop of superior fruit, to an abundant or excessive one of 

 inferior quality. Caterpillars are often very troublesome and destructive on 

 Gooseberry bushes. If attended to in time, they are easily destroyed by dusting 

 over them, with a common tin pepper-box, a little white powdered hellebore. It 

 is rarely necessary to repeat it, so effectually does it clear the bushes of them. 

 Caterpillars are also often troublesome on Pears and Apricots. Being wrapped 

 up in the leaves, it is somewhat difficult to reach them either by dusting or 

 syringing ; pinching the shoots with the fingers, and hand-picking them, will, if 

 timely begun and persevered in, clear the trees of them. The Black Aphis, 

 which sometimes attacks Cherry trees and occasionally Peach trees, is rather 

 difficult to destroy ; perhaps the easiest way of getting rid of it is to cut or pinch 

 off the ends of the shoots ; it may be destroyed by dipping the shoots a few times 

 in tobacco-water, but this is a tedious operation, and where a number of trees are 

 to be gone over, takes up much time. The Green Fly that attacks Bed and Black 



