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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig. 1810. Window Garden. 



TIMELY TOPICS FOR THE AMATEUR— III. 



^HE month of May is often spoken of 

 as the " merry month of May," 

 doubtless deriving- this pleasing- 

 ^pJ appellation from the fact that 

 " May " blossoms and bright spring weather 

 usually make their more than welcome ap- 

 pearance during this, the first real spring 

 month of the year — compelling us by their 

 brightness to forget the customary vicissi- 

 tudes of April weather, and the long months 



of winter, past and gone. The routine of 

 garden work in May and early June depends 

 perhaps more on the prevailing temperature 

 than during any month of the year, at least 

 so far as tender plants are concerned ; as 

 the trying ordeal now takes place of trans- 

 ferring most of these plants from their win- 

 ter quarters to the vagaries of spring wea- 

 ther out of doors. Care must be exercised 

 in exposing plants of tender growth too ab- 



