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•soon be ready for turning out. A few kinds of annuals should also, for the same 

 purpose, be sown on a light soil and shady border. By frequently transplanting 

 and stopping, their tendency to bloom will be encouraged, and the formation of 

 roots promoted, and they will soon bear removing to the permanent beds with- 

 out injury. It will add much to the eflfect of vases, &c., if, after they are filled, 

 a few trailing plants are put in to peg over the surface of the mould, and 

 ultimately to hang over the sides. For the larger ones the different kinds of 

 maurandyas and lophospermums are well adapted, while for the smaller vases, 

 baskets, kc, dwarf loosestrife, and plants of similar habit, will add much to 

 their beauty. Moss, which we so frequently see used for the purpose, can never 

 present so elegant an appearance. Those plants which interlace the meshes 

 of basket-work, require continual attention now, covering over the soil with 

 some of the spreading lobelias, whose colours when in bloom harmonize with 

 the trailing plants, and have an excellent eflfect. 



1 159. The newly-planted beds require constant watching. All failures 

 should be instantly made good, and the tying and staking of everything 

 requiring support attended to. Where an early display of flowers is not 

 wanted, the buds may be pinched off. Cuttings of Iberis saxatilis root i^eadily 

 under a hand-glass at this season ; when placed in a shady situation, they 

 form a beautiful edging, and may be cut like box for a week or two, to encou- 

 rage the plants to cover the ground. Pansies, anemones, double walliiowers, 

 and other spring plants, should he removed as they go out of bloom, to make 

 room for autumn-flowering ones, the beds being made up with fresh compost, 

 in planting the later. Creepers against walls or trellises should be gone over 

 and tied or nailed in. 



1 160. Rose-Garden. — Standard and pillar roses should likewise be looked 

 over to see that they are properly secured to their stakes. This being 

 the month in which roses are in their glory, care should be taken that their 

 effect is not destroyed by imperfect buds or deformed flowers. Weak-growing 

 shoots should be tied up and regulated, and all fading flowers and seed- 

 vessels removed, cutting back the perpetual or autumn-flower kinds, as soon as 

 all the flowers of the branch are expanded to the most prominent vertical eje, 

 stirring the ground and saturating it with manure-water, or sprinkling the 

 ground with guano and watering with soft rain-water. 



1 161. Towards the end of the month many shoots will be firm enough for 

 budding, and some sorts work best on the flowering shoots, provided the buds 

 are taken before the flowering is over. In selecting buds, take those of 

 moderate size ; clean off the thorn, cut the leaves off, leaving only about half 

 an inch of the stalk or petiole to hold by ; then with a sharp knife take out 

 the bud, beginning half an inch above the eye, and bring the knife about the 

 eighth of an inch below ; with the point of the knife separate the wood from. 

 the bark, without interfering with the wood which remains in the eye, leaving 

 it so that, when inserted on the stock, the wood left may be in immediate 

 tjontact with its wood. 



1 162. Having removed the thorns on the intended stock, open the bark at 



