208 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



gold, petunias, mignonette, portacula and many 

 others may now be sown outdoors. 



Bedding plants such as geraniums, coleus, can- 

 nas, and others should be planted this month, as 

 should bulbs of lilies, tuberous begonias, caladium 

 and tuberoses. 



If you wish large blooms of peonies and hybrid 

 perpetual roses, disbud by removing all the lateral 

 buds and leaving only the one terminal or end bud 

 to each shoot. 



Evergreens may still be planted, in fact they 

 may be planted at any season of the year except 

 when they show a soft new growth, then planting 

 should cease until this new growth is hardened. 



JUNE. The best time to plant your dahlias is 

 the first part of this month, which is plenty early 

 to have them bloom at their natural time in the 

 fall after the nights have become cool. Plant 

 gladioli and tuberoses for a succession of bloom. 



Apply a mulch of lawn clippings, straw or to- 

 bacco stems to your rose beds and around the 

 Rhododendrons. 



Continued cultivation except where a mulch is 

 used, and particularly after each rain, is essential 

 all through the growing season, as is the keeping 

 down of the weeds. 



JULY. You may still set out plants of hardy 

 chrysanthemum to bloom in the fall. Now or in 

 August sow seeds of perennials in a sheltered loca- 



