CALENDAE OF OPEEATIOKS FOE MAY. 



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not less than once a week if it can 

 be done, but if it goes more than 

 a fortnigbt this month the grass 

 will be spoiled for the year. Water 

 late-planted shrubs. 



Transplanting all the annuals, 

 potting of such as are to be 

 bloomed in pots, filling up the 

 beds and clumps with Hydrangeas, 

 scarlet Geraniums, Fuchsias, Ver- 

 benas, Petunias, Calceolarias, and 

 other subjects which have been 

 protected all the winter, may be 

 set about after the fifteenth of the 

 month without fear of having them 

 damaged by frosts. 



Tulips are now coming into 

 flower. Keep the sun from once 

 shining on them after they show 

 colour. Make nieuiorandums in 

 your book on the state of your 

 blooms, especially pointing out 

 any that are to be changed the 

 next planting, aud all such as are 

 in their wrong places. If the 

 weather be exceedingly sultry water 

 the paths in the Tulip house, but 

 not the soil in which the Tulips 

 are planted. They do not require 

 wet, but the paths well watered. 

 Keep the canvas house cool, and 

 when the weather shall prove very 

 melting syringing the canvas all 

 over so as to still more cool the 

 place will be beneficial; but the 

 under cloth stretched from end to 

 end must be put up before yoti 

 sprinkle the roof, or the water 

 would splash through the cloth 

 into the flowers, aud completely 

 spoil the bloom. Look over all 

 your seedlings as they flower, that 

 you may throw away at once all 

 those which prove worthless, and 

 so lessen the stock. Shade any 

 particular flowers that may be 

 about in the out-beds and seedling 

 beds. 



The borders generally have to 

 be kept clear from weeds, to be 



filled in the vacant places with 

 seeds or plants ready to put out. 

 Stakes put to all sorts of plants 

 that are weakly in their stems, or 

 too tall 10 stand the winds. In 

 filling up the borders all the taller 

 suhjects should be placed at the 

 back, and the lower ones towards 

 the front, as all borders should 

 form a kind of bank of flowers 

 when all are in flower. 



Geometrical or Dutch Garden*. 

 — One of the first things to con- 

 sider in Dutch gardens is perma- 

 nency of bloom. On this account 

 there are many kinds of dwarf 

 Eoses that are excellent, but all 

 the beds should be uniform ; that 

 is to say, the beds that are all of 

 one shape should be all of one 

 colour, or half of them at any rate. 

 Suppose, then, there are six round 

 beds on the sauie circle ; it would 

 be tolerable to have three scarlet 

 and three blue, they being alter- 

 nate, and so with all the rest. Of 

 the annuals to be employed, Nemo- 

 phila insi(/nis and Convolvulus 

 minor would be splendid blues ; 

 Zinnia coccinect aud scarlet Ten- 

 week Stocks, good reds; Erysi- 

 mum Perofskianum and EschschoU- 

 zia crocea, good orange colours ; 

 Candytuft, a good white. But the 

 objection to annuals is their short- 

 lived beauty. Verbenas of various 

 colours, and Eoses, go a long way 

 towards making up beds that re- 

 tain their beauty all the summer 

 and a great part of the autumn. 

 All we want to impress on the 

 mind is the necessity of uniformity 

 in the plants employed. The Cu- 

 phea platijeentra is also a prize for 

 bedding out. 



THE ROSE GAEDEN. 



This noble plant is now advanc- 

 ing in growth, and appi'oaching 

 the period of bloom. Syringing 



