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thinned out, and transplanted ; and the stems o% she Phloxes and other of 
coarse-growing herbaceous plants are cut in, taking away about a third 
part, as when they are suffered to hev: too much herbage it weakens 
the flowers. The gravel walks ist now be carefully attended to, 
sweeving and gelling them frequentiy, and the turf must be mowed 
once a week. Fots of Ixias and other summer- -flowering bulbs are now 
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Tue Dahlias are planted out in this month in beds, the plants k d 7 | 
four or five feet apart every way. The cuttings of greenhouse plants, 
which were made purposely for pianting out, are now. put into the & 
ground ; and the Pelargoniums, Heliotropes, and other greenhouse plants, . 
are planted cut. ‘The Aphides now begin to apie on the Rose trees, 
and they should be destroyed by dipping the tops of the shoots. into ote 
clear water, and shaking them gently in the water. All ‘the insects - 
may be thus removed, without disfiguring the tree. A brown grub (the 
larva of a kind of saw-fly) now appears in the Rose buds, and should 
be removed by hand-picking. Many good flower-gardeners prefer cut- 
ting their box-edgings. in this month, just when the plants have nearly ~ 
completed their annual shoots, as they afterwards push out a few leaves; 
«nd thus the edging does not show the mark of the knife, which it does 
mhen cut later. 
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Tue withered Roses and other flowers should be eut off as soon as” 
they fade, as nothing disfigures a flower-garden more than dead flowers. _ 
Some of the herbaceous plants that have done flowering should be cut’ — 
jown, and the pots of summer bulbs should be removed to give place to 
Pelargoniums, German and Russian Stocks, &c., which will continue 
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‘n flower till October. The annual plants from the May sowing are a 
now thinned out ; and cuttings of greenhouse plants are put in the open 
border, under hand-glasses. Pyramids and pillars of Roses should now ~* 
be trained carefully, and tied so as to present a mass of bloom. ‘The . 
turf should be mown every week, and the broad-leaved grasses, and other 
plants, such as daisies, removed, where their epesahgamet iced to 
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