CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR JUNE. 



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inches of each other, in a sort of 

 triangle ; they will grow into one 

 another, and, heing diiferent, liave 

 a good effect. Geraniums should 

 be planted singly, turning the 

 balls out whole, and allowing room 

 to grow. The Geraniums planted 

 out in beds and clumps should 

 be a foot apart, for they will grow 

 close enough very soon. All this 

 planting should be done the first 

 week. 



Watvriug is frequently neces- 

 sary this month, but it ought only 

 to be resorted to in the greatest 

 emergency. Unless things are per- 

 ceptibly suftering for want of it, 

 it ought not to be given : it is the 

 beginning of bad habits. Plants, 

 like people, may be spoiled: help 

 them, and tliey will not help them- 

 selves ; teach them sel^-reliance, 

 and they make shift without assist- 

 ance. If we begin watering plants 

 the roots no longer go down after 

 moisture — they come up after it, 

 and we are obliged to continue it ; 

 but if we are obliged to water, let 

 the Avhole space of the ground be 

 Tp-atered alike, the same as a heavy 

 shower of rain would do it. Com- 

 mon surface watering is worse 

 than none. The farce of sprink- 

 ling ground that it may look black 

 and wet for an hour is amusing 

 enough to those who know better; 

 but, as we have always said, a 

 thorough good watering once a 

 week is far better than the com- 

 mon sprinkling of the place once 

 a day. 



Weedbuj. — Unless the greatest 

 activity is observed now in the 

 removal of weeds they will rapidly 

 overrun the flowers, and seed be- 

 fore you are aware of it. Make a 

 rule of stirring the entire surface 

 of the borders in dry weather once 

 a week at the least ; it is the only 

 way to keep weeds effectually 



under control. Weeds that grow 

 up in patches of seed should be 

 drawn out iiy the hand; but be- 

 fore that is attempted the ground 

 should be well soaked with water, 

 that they may not only draw easy, 

 but come out withoitt draggiftg 

 the plants with them. The beds 

 of seedling biennials must be care- 

 fully gone over, and should be 

 tliinned a little as well as weeded. 

 For this purpose water them well 

 first; merely remove those which 

 are too thick to grow w^ell enotish 

 to plant out, for if they are too 

 thick in the seed-bed they be- 

 come lanky and weak, and there 

 is no making them into good 

 bush plants. 



THE ROSE GAEDEN. 



Look over all the Tree Koses,and 

 all others worked upon briers, and, 

 wherever the stock has begun to 

 shoot, rub off the buds and shoots, 

 that they may not rob the better 

 variety that is budded or grafted 

 upon them. Cut away all the 

 stock above the inserted btids. 

 If the bud has made a good shoot 

 pinch the end off, that the growth 

 may at once be thrown into lateral 

 slioots, instead of all going into a 

 branch that must be cut back to 

 two eyes next season. It is far bet- 

 ter to direct the strengtli into late- 

 ral branches that will at once form 

 a good head, because each of the 

 strongest of these branches, being 

 cut back at the pruning time, will 

 help to form a good head by send- 

 ing out two stronger shoots. Look 

 also to suckers that spread in the 

 ground, and if they throw up 

 strong shoots to injure the plant, 

 dig down to the part where these 

 suckers join the main root, and 

 cut them off there. If any of the 

 briers worked last year do not 

 grow well, or rather if the buds 



