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TIMELY TOPICS FOR THE AMATEUR— IV. 



'UNE ! floral June ! the rose-month of 

 the year, when the Rose with its 

 fragrant, queenly blossoms, demon- 

 strates, with more than its usual at- 

 tractiveness, the right to retain among its 

 many beautiful floral associates, the proud 

 title so universally accorded it, as " The 

 Queen of the Garden." 



The Rose, however, has by no means the 

 entire monopoly just now in the garden ; as 

 the fragrant blossoms of tree and shrub, as 

 well as of many other plants, demand 

 their share of admiration, from all 

 lovers of the beauty so lavishly dis- 

 played at this time of the year, in the floral 

 world around. 



June also brings us many of the useful 

 and healthful first products of the fruit and 

 vegetable garden, that are so acceptable at 

 this early summer season ; and that so well 

 repay the comparatively small amount of 

 care and labor required to produce them. 



Pests as well as pleasures, however, 

 usually come with the good things that June 

 brings us in the garden, the increasing 

 warm weather causing greater activity 

 amongst injurious insects and similar pests. 

 Constant and close watchfulness, and an 



early application of the remedies and pre- 

 ventives recommended in the formulas 

 published in horticultural journals, is very 

 necessary to successfully combat these ever 

 increasing enemies to plant life. The old 

 maxim that '* Prevention is better than 

 cure," may be applied with as much force 

 now as it ever was, especially in the gar- 

 den ; not only to the attacks of injurious in- 

 sects and similar pests, but also to the suc- 

 cessive crops of weeds that appear so rapidly 

 during the summer months. 



The Greenhouse : June isthe moving-out 

 month in this department ; as most of the 

 plants that have occupied the greenhouse 

 all the winter and spring, have to be grad- 

 ually introduced, as the weather permits, to 

 their summer quarters. 



Geraniums and the hardier class of bed- 

 ding plants, such as verbenas, petunias, and 

 pyrethrum should be planted out in the beds 

 or borders as early as possible. Coleus, 

 achryanthes, and the more tender plants 

 may be planted out after all danger of frost 

 is over. 



Palms, cordylines, Ficus elastica and most 

 hardwooded plants can be stood outside ; 

 plunge the pots in, or stand them on coal 



