i86 JOTTINGS OF A GENTLEMAN GARDENER 



Rock-plants should be cut back after flowering and have 

 the dead blooms clipped off. 



Choice wallflowers may be propagated from cuttings. 

 These must be struck in a heated frame. 



Keep the hoe going once a week through the borders, 

 and resort to hand weeding if necessary. 



Lift late-flowering Tulips and plant them in a shady 

 border to finish their growth. Plant the beds made 

 vacant with late-sown hardy annuals. 



Lift bulbs put in the shady border last month. Put 

 them in the sun to dry for a short time, then clean and 

 store in bags in a dry shed till next autumn. 



Continue to lift late-flowering Polyanthuses and plant 

 in a shady position. Divide those lifted last month and 

 plant the strongest pieces in light shady ground in rows 

 6 ins. apart each way. 



Cut flowers from the borders regularly and remove dead 

 blooms or spikes of bloom as soon as formed. 



Give hardy annuals their final thinning. 



Continue staking all kinds of border plants as soon as 

 they begin to need it. Rather put the stakes in too soon 

 than too late, for if the plants are left without support they 

 fall about and are quickly ruined. 



Garden paths should be weeded. An application of salt 

 in dry weather will generally kill most of the weeds. 



Pinch out the tops of the growths of hardy annuals to 

 induce them to become bushy. 



Turn over heaps of leaves for leaf-mould, sprinkling a 

 little lime over them. 



Start from now or last month in real earnest to collect 

 all soft vegetable refuse to be made into vegetable humus 

 (see Chapter XXVII). 



Burn any hard or seeding weeds, and store the ash in a 

 dry place. 



JULY. 



Shrubs of all kinds may now be pruned. Hawthorn, 

 Holly, Privet and other hedges can be clipped. Rake 



