CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR AUGUST. 



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should be potted and kept in 

 frames. Auriculas in particular. 

 Carnations and Picotees, iJ valu- 

 able sorts, should also be potted j 

 in plain loam without dung; but j 

 all hardy perennials are best 

 planted out in nursery-beds. Hol- 

 lyhocks, Polyanthus, Lupinns 

 2y)Ii/phi//liis, Phloxes, Antirrhi- 1 

 nums, Columbines, Sweetwilliams, ! 

 and raany oth r plants, do well in 

 the open ground in nursery-beds 

 four feet wide, and plants six 

 inches from each other. These 

 must be watered when planted, 

 and be afterwards kept clear of 

 weeds. 



Phloxes require support if tall, 

 and all tall weakly border plants 

 require the same. Phloxes should 

 be supported loosely as they rise 

 for bloom, because, if fastened 

 tightly, they cannot push up, but 

 bend, and even break, with a few 

 days' growth. Phlox Dnnnmondi 

 in full bloom gives the cultivator 

 an opportunity of selecting the 

 best colours for seed ; but if the 

 form be bad it is better let alone. 

 This annual is inclined to be well 

 formed, and therefore to save seed 

 from any one second-rate would 

 be bad. These may be struck in 

 heat under glass, and, though only 

 an annual, may be thus converted, 

 as it were, into a perennial, be- 

 cause it lives throiigli the wintei'. 



Pinks. — Make beds with the 

 rooted pipings if you have not 

 already done so, and recollect that 

 a Pink is nothing without it grows 

 in rich ground. The effect of poor 

 ground is loss of size, coloui-, and 

 character. A lact-d Pink loses its 

 lacing, the colour is spoiled, and 

 it is so small tiiat it would not be 

 known in many cases. L'.ok over 

 new beds already made, and see 

 that none of the plants are dis- \ 

 turbed. If they have been moved ; 



by worms or other causes press 

 the earth about them. 



Pla>it out Biennials if you have 

 not already done so, and also per- 

 eimials. Polyanthuses, Piimroses, 

 Walltiowers, Sv.'eetwillianis, Can- 

 terbury Bells, Two-year Stocks, 

 Larksi^nrs, seedling Pinks, Cai- 

 natious, Picotees, Hollyhocks, and 

 otiier choice things. Weed those 

 already planted out. 



Tulips. — Throw the soil out of 

 the beds in a ridge on each side, 

 that it may be choppeil over and 

 sweeten during the period between 

 this and November, the month lor 

 planting the best bed, as well as 

 the oi^en ones, and let there be a 

 very sharp look-out for wii-eworm, 

 grub, and other vermin. Examine 

 the bulbs in the boxes, and begin 

 making such alterations in the ar- 

 rangement as you propose. When- 

 ever you have half an hour to 

 spare, as it is generally too long a 

 job to be managed all at once, lay 

 out all the very sniiall offsets, to 

 be planted early in October, or 

 even directly, if they are at all in 

 danger of drying up and shrivel- 

 ling. 



Cheap Green Colonr for palings 

 may be made by a mixture of four 

 pounds of Roman vitriol, dissolved 

 in boiling water, only sufficient to 

 dissolve it, and two pounds of 

 pearl ashes, all well stirred to- 

 gether, with two ounces of powder 

 of yellow arsenic. The object of 

 this is to daub over roiigli fences 

 and palings ; it is not j^retended 

 that a few pence are to produce a 

 paint equal to that which would 

 cost as many shillings. It soaks 

 into wood and kills vermin. 



THE ROSE GARDEN, 



Roses. — Examine all the Roses 

 that were budded in June and 

 July; first, to see that none of the 



