Horticultural Operations for July. 335 



Summer Pruning of both pear and apple trees will now keep the culti- 

 vator busy, where there are many of them. Attend to the directions given 

 in our previous volumes, and trees of any shape, and full of fruit buds, may 

 be obtained. 



Insects will still need to be kept in remembrance. The pear slug will 

 be busy now ; the aphis on apples, and caterpillars of various kinds. 

 Whale oil soap is the stuff for them. 



FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 



Now is the time to prepare for winter. The spring work over, every- 

 thing bedded out, and the greenhouse and conservatory filled with their 

 summer occupants, now is the time to look up the various plants which are 

 to mike gay the winter months. Many kinds of seeds should be sown for 

 this purpose, and all those plants whose real beauty depends upon their 

 summer growth, such as Linums, Euphorbias, Oestrums, Lantanas, &c., 

 should be encouraged in their progress by free applications of weak liquid 

 manure. Discontinue stopping the shoots before the end of the month. 

 Now is the time to lay in a stock of the proper sorts for next winter's use, 

 and as a guide to what are the proper soils to amateurs especially, we have 

 only to refer to the capital advice in our last, (p. 277.) 



Camellias should be liberally watered and repeatedly syringed that the 

 swelling of the buds may have no check. Now is a good time to inarch 

 and graft ; also to put in cuttings. 



Pelargoniums will now be going out of bloom, and may be headed 

 down this month and a stock of cuttings put in. Place the old plants in a 

 half shady situation, and water sparingly till they begin to grow. 



Chrysanthemums growing vigorously should be well watered, using 

 liquid manure or guano occasionally. Plunge in saw-dust, tan, or earth, 

 give the plants room and stop all forward shoots, up to the end of the 

 month. 



Cinerarias and Calceolarias should now be propagated by dividing 

 the old roots. Pot in light rich leafy soil, and keep in frames till well es- 

 tablished. Seedlings should be encouraged by a shift into larger pots. 



Chinese Primroses : remove the old plants to a frame facing the north, 

 and shade in very hot sunny days. Make a sowing of seeds now for a 

 supply of young plants of the single kinds. 



Cestrums will require a shift now into the next size pots. 



AcHiMENES, Gloxinias and Gesneras, intended for fine specimens, 

 should be encouraged by a shift into larger pots. 



Verbenas for flowering early next winter should now be raised from 

 cuttings or layers, so that they may be made strong plants by repeated stop- 

 pings before October. 



Azaleas which have completed their growth, may now be repotted if 

 they require it, and removed to a shady place in the open air. 



Ericas and Epacrisis should be plunged in sand in a half shady place 

 not under the drip of trees. Be particular about watering them and never 

 let them Buffer. 



