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KALENDARIAL INDEX. 



Prune what trees you have neglected, and run the 

 risk of losing, or leave them unpruned till autumn as 

 a proof of vigilance and skill. (2360.) Summer prune 

 vines, peaches, and other early shooting trees against 

 walls, and such gooseberries as are planted there to 

 produce upon early fruit. (2522.) Remove all suckers, 

 excepting selected ones of raspberries, and pinch off 

 strawberry runners as directed for lastimonth. (4717.) 

 Routine culture. Mulch, protect, and water where 

 necessary. Water strawberries over the herbage, 

 and especially after the fruit is set. (4717.) 



Destroy insects, especially snails and caterpillars. 

 On the first symptoms of the leaves rolling up, un- 

 roll them and pick out the grub before it does fur- 

 ther mischief. Take special care it does not get at 

 the petals of apple and pear blossoms. (2280.) 



Fruit-room. Look over the fruit of every descrip- 

 tion which the increase of temperature will now 

 cause to taint rapidly. (2298.) 



Fruit-cellar. Open a few casks of such dessert ap- 

 ples and pears as are now wanted for the table. 

 Close them as soon as you have taken out the pro- 

 per quantitv, and let them still remain in the cellar. 

 (2298, and 2299.) 



5. Culinary hot-house department. 

 Glass case without artificial heat. Remove glasses 

 from cauliflowers and kidneybeans, according to 

 the weather. Sow capsicum under frames or hand- 

 glasses in a warm border. (4271.) 



Hot-beds. Go on with hot-beds for frames for 

 melons, and build dung-ridges for growing cucum- 

 bers under hand-glasses. (3262.) Sow cucumbers 

 and melons for late crops, and attend to the various 

 particulars in their culture. Attend to air, water, 

 shade, insects, &c. .. 



Pinery. Attend particularly to your fruiting 

 plants, give abundance of heat aud water, and keep 

 down all manner of dirt, insects, &c. (2906.) Attend 

 to minor articles cultivated in the pinery, and to 

 routine culture of every kind. Think and act for 

 yourself; kalendars too often mislead the ignorant 

 who rely on them implicitly, not considering that no 

 two cases are ever to be found alike. (2607.) 



Forcinv department. Produce the required tem- 

 peratures, and attend to all the parts of good culture 

 and neat management. (2611. and 2940.) 



6. Flower-garden. — Open ground de- 

 partment. 



Sow annuals of all sorts for succession. Biennials 

 in the nursery compartment for a stock for next 

 year. (6507. and 6513.) 



Propagate, especially by cuttings from the stalks, 

 as of wallflower, rocket, &c. (6505.) 



Take up bulbs and tuber roots, as crocus, hyacinth, 



Transplant, as directed for the last month, stocks 

 and other sorts in pots for winter. (2079.) 



Protect tulip-beds and all rare florists' flowers from 

 the midday sun, the rain, and the winds. (2206.) 



Routine culture. Hoe, rake, stir, weed, and clear 

 away dead leaves. Do not neglect whenever rain 

 has battered the ground, to stir it up and refresh it 

 as soon as it is nearly dry. Stir the surface round 

 close patches of annuals, and refresh and top-dress 

 all pots of prolonged annuals, now in full flower or 

 in seed Keep all the primula tribe rather dry at 

 this season, and in the shade of a north walL 

 Plunge the pots in ashes or sawdust. 



Destroy insects, and pick the grubs off roses. De- 

 tach seed-pods from all plants you do not wish to 

 ripen seeds. Water, thin, and shade with judg- 

 ment, and keep a vigilant eye to order and neatness. 

 Shut yourself up in your room for two entire days, 

 or go from home a similar time, and when you re- 

 turn and look over the garden you will see many 

 things that would have escaped you, had you gone 

 on plodding day after day. Remember that such 

 things are seen by others, and that though all may 

 appear to you in good order, to another_there may 

 be much slovenliness and confusion. (74S7. to 7439.) 



Store-room. Lay up crocus and other bulbs and 

 roots till wanted in the autumn. 



7. Flower-garden. — Hot-house depart- 

 ment. 



Glass case without artificial heat. These will now 

 be chiefly employed with annuals in pots, for pro- 

 longation and in striking from cuttings, &-c. (2063.) 



Hot-beds. (2678.) Go on as directed last month 

 with your tender annuals. Plant a few tuberoses for 

 succession. (6323.) Attend to cuttings and seedlings 

 from the hot-house and green-house departments. 

 Shift and transplant as occasion requires. (2079.) 



Green-house. Give abundance of air every day, 

 and in mild nights leave some all night : water over 

 the top, and shut the house in the afternoon when 

 you water. This invigorates growth wonderfully. 



Propagate as before. Shift most of the plants, 

 examine their roots. 



Dry-stove. (6176.) Give abundance of air. Fires 

 will not now be wanted, Look to bulbs, as soon as 

 they have done flowering. Shift all such as require 

 it, putting them into larger or smaller pots, accord- 

 ing to their state, and your object. 



Rark, or moist stove. (6214.) Give abundance of 

 heat, air, and water, if you wish the plants to grow 

 and flower vigorously. (66S8. to 6716., 



8. Pleasure-ground and shrubbery. 



Plant deciduous trees and shrubs, but only to fill 

 up a vacancy, or to cause a check for the purpose of 

 late flowering. Immediately after performing the 

 operation, mulch, shade, and water. (2098.) Ever- 

 greens, especially the more tender sorts, but finish 

 by the middle of the month. (6997.) 



Prune (2110.) evergreens, finishing by the middle 

 of the month. (6997.) 



Routine culture. Hoe, rake, weed, water, stake, 

 shade, shelter, &c. as circumstances require. Roll 

 and mow once a-week, if showers are frequent, but 

 once a-fortnight will do in dry weather. 



Lay down turf, if not completed before, water well 

 and roll immediately afterwards. (2101.) 



Gravel-walks may still be formed and repaired, but 

 the work should have been completed last month. 

 Roll well with a heavy roller. (W56. to 1968.) 



9. Trees. — Nursery department. 

 Fruit-trees. (4361.) Look over grafted trees. 

 Ornamental trees and shrubs. Sow the seeds of 



evergreens and American sorts, in the first and 

 second weeks of the month. Lay and graft the ten- 

 derer sorts of evergreens and Americans. Plant 

 out tender evergreens and Americans in nursery 

 rows, or in pots, for more convenient removal. (6562.) 



Forest trees. Finish planting out evergreens, 

 seedlings, and nurslings as early as possible. Sow 

 poplar and willow seeds as soon as gathered. These 

 seeds will not come up if kept a very few days out 

 of the ground. (7024.) 



Protect from all sorts of garden enemies, and at- 

 tend to order and neatness. (2206. and 2356.) 



10. Trees. — Permanent plantations and 

 park-scenery. 



Plaiding evergreens may still go on, if the wea- 

 ther is dull and moist, but the sooner it is finished 

 the better. (6977.) 



Pruning. Sang recommends this as a good season 

 for pruning old oaks, because the wound heals 

 quicker while the sap is flowing. 



Fell oak woods and coppices, and other barking 

 trees, but complete the operation about the middle of 

 the month, or before. (6941.) 



Routine culture. Attend to planted ground un- 

 der, or to be put'under, light culinary crops. (7037.) 



Prepare ground for autumnal planting or forming 

 of plantations by sowing, as the tree-seeds ripen. 



(681"-) *. •-, 



Operate on ground for water, or other territorial 

 improvements. Continue to build and execute plans 

 determined on at an earlier season. 



JUNE. 



Average of 



the Ther- 



I mometer. 



Greatest 

 Variation 

 from the 

 Average. 



Average 



of the 



Barometer. 



Quantity 

 of Rain. 



London - I 

 Edinburgh I 

 Dublin ; 



65 22 



57 2 



58 76 



29 95 0-552 inch, 

 29 666 1-955 

 50 06 0-860 



REMARKS. 



The weather is sometimes cold at the beginning, but is ge- 

 nerally agreeable and steadv towards the middle of the 

 month. Bv observing the column indicating the greatest 

 variation of the thermometer in each month, it will be 

 seen that it varies, in London, only two degrees m June, 

 which is less than in any of the preceding months. In 

 Julv and August the variation is the same ; but in March 

 and" October it is twice as much. 



