220 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
THE GARDEN GUIDE FOR JULY. 
I watx’p the fields at morning’s prime, 
The grass was ripe for mowing ; 
The skylark sang his matin chime, 
And all was brightly glowing. 
“ And thus,’ I cried, ‘‘ the ardent boy, 
His pulse with rapture beating, 
Deems life’s inheritance is joy— 
The future proudly greeting.” 
I wander’d forth at noon—alas ! 
On earth’s maternal bosom 
The scythe had left the withering grass 
And stretch’d the fading blossom. t 
: And thus, I thought, with many a sigh, 
The hopes we fondly cherish, 
Like flowers which blossom but to die, 
Seem only born to perish, 
Once more, at eve, abroad I stray’d, 
Through lonely hay-fields musing, 
While every breeze that round me play’d 
Rich fragrance was diffusing. 
The perfum’d air, the hush of eve, 
To purer hopes appealing, 
O’er thoughts, perchance, too prone to griere, 
Scatter’d the balm of healing. 
For thus “ the actions of the just,’” 
When memory hath enshrin’d them, 
E’en from the dark and silent dust 
Their odour leave behind them. 
BERnarD Barton. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
THE Delphiniums, herbaceous Phloxes, and a host of other good things, will 
flower during the month, in addition to the ordinary bedding plants, which will 
now be at their best. There will be plenty of work in the flower garden during 
the month, for the summer bedders will want constant attention ; and a consider- 
able proportion of the spring flowering plants suitable for massing, must be 
propagated. The rose-beds must receive frequent attention, and all suckers be 
removed. The old flowering shoots should also be cut back, and the trees have a 
few good doses of liquid manure to aid in the production of a good autumn bloom, 
Budding must be proceeded with. If the stocks do not run freely, a thorough 
watering will generally start them. Evergreens may now be pruned, and their 
growth regulated. The annuals that are past their best should be cleared away, to 
prevent the garden having an untidy appearance. Where it is intended to save 
seed from any of the herbaceous plants, it is a good plan to cut the old flower-spikes 
directly the lower seed-pods begin to ripen, and stick them in pots filled with wet 
sand, and placed over a large sheet of paper indoors, to catch the seed. When left 
on the plants until the whole of the seed is ripe, three parts of it will be scattered 
to the winds and lost. Where it is intended to increase the stock of Pinks, 
Picotees, and Carnations, propagation must be commenced in the early part of the 
month, either by pipings or layers. 
KITCHEN GARDEN, 
Tomatoes ought to be stopped just above the fruit, and be well pinched in. 
Continue to plant out all the winter stuff as fast as possible; the evening is the 
best time. Keep the Celery well watered, and plant out the main crop. Let every 
vod be removed from both Runners and Dwarf Beans directly they are large 
enough for gathering. Sow the main crop of Turnips, and successional supplies of 
Lettuce, Radish, Spinach, Small Salad, a few rows of early Peas, and a bed of 
Statholder Cauliflowers. The principal stock of Cauliflowers and French Beans ia 
bearing will receive considerable help from a thick coat of short litter, or other 
mulching material, about the roots. 
