288 Horticultural Operations for June. 



Heaths and Epacrises will require attention. Select a half shady spot 

 to keep them during the summer, plunging them in tan or sandy earth. 



Cactuses may be shifted as soon as done flowering, and partially pruned 

 in, taking away the old wood. 



Chrysanthemums should now have a shift into larger pots ; top all long 

 shoots so as to have stocky bushy plants. 



Roses, in pots, intended for early autumn blooming should be plunged in 

 a cool, half shady situation. Cuttings may be put in now, and layers made 

 of such as succeed best in that way. 



Calceolarias should be kept in a cool situation, and be carefully 

 watered. 



Greenhouse Plants of all sorts should be neatly arranged in their sum- 

 mer quarters, where they can be properly watered, and taken due care of. 



FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. 



This department should now begin to assume a neat and beautiful ap- 

 pearance. Everything should have been done except setting out the 

 bedding plants, and no time should now be lost to accomplish this. As the 

 weather has been warm and fine, the grass edging and lawn will require 

 considerable mowing. Put them in order, finish up the planting, and clear 

 and rake all the beds neatly. Roses and other running plants should not 

 be neglected as they advance in gi-owth ; look them over often, and tie up 

 in due season. 



Dahlias should all be planted by the 20th of the month ; the earlier the 

 better for abundaiice of flowers ; but the late ones generally give the best. 



Carnations and Picotees now throwing up their flower stems should 

 be neatly staked. 



Hyacinths may soon be taken up, and their places filled with annuals. 



Hollyhocks, throwing up several strong stems, should have them 

 thinned out to three. 



Asters, Globe Amaranthus, and other showy annuals, raised under 

 glass, should now be set out in beds, or in the border. 



Biennial and Perennial flower seeds may now be planted. 



Phloxes and similar tall growing plants should be neatly tied up to a 

 stake. 



Neapolitan Violets should now be reset, selecting a half shady 

 situation. 



vegetable department. 



The weather is so fine now that all kinds of tender vegetables may be 

 planted out. Egg plants, peppers, cucumbers, &c., started in the hot bed, 

 should now be removed to proper places in the garden. Continue to sow 

 peas for a succession. Hoe and weed all crops in a forward state. 



Melons under glass, of the choice kinds, such as Beechwood, &c., 

 should have a lining of fresh manure, if superior specimens are wanted. 



Celery should be planted out this month. 



