MAT. 355 



PLANTING OUT. 



Every year there are those who, in their haste to see 

 the tender tiowers in bloom, subject them to the exposure 

 of chilly, windy days or frosts, only to enfeeble them 

 and injure their future usefulness. As a rule, in the 

 North, few tender green-house plants or half-hardy annu- 

 als should be set earlier than May 25th, while long experi- 

 ence shows that nine times out of ten, all tender things, 

 like Coleus, planted as late as the first of June, will go 

 ahead and excel in size and beauty, those that were set 

 two weeks earlier. Verbenas, Roses, Carnations, Pinks, 

 Stocks, and other plants that are not affected by a slight 

 frost, may be planted out several weeks earlier. Gladi- 

 olus, Tigridias, and Dalilias, may be planted any time in 

 the month. Tuberoses should not go out before the 

 20th of the month. 



SUB-TKOPICAL GARDENS AND ROCKERIES. 



The former may be arranged for the season, and the 

 latter brightened with tender flowering kinds, and those 

 with showy foliage, as soon as warm weather is established. 



SEED SOWING. 



Seeds of all the hardy and half-hardy annuals may be 

 sown any time during the month, and those of tender 

 annuals after the 10th of the month, and earlier in the 

 South. 



ROSES, INSECTS, ETC. 



Towards the end of May, and later, insects will begin 

 to trouble rose bushes. The Rose Saw-fly, especially in 

 its caterpillar state, known as the Rose Slug, is one of the 

 most annoying pests, but with attention to keeping them 

 down, the plants maybe saved from serious depredations. 

 In the fly state they are of a shiny black color, about one- 

 fifth of an inch in length, and found mostly on the un- 



