JUNE 



Is not so busy a month for the florists as the last 

 has been ; they may now rest a little from their 

 labors, and enjoy the rewards of their care and at- 

 tention, in the brilliant display of flowers which will 

 everywhere meet their admiring view ; still, enough 

 is to'be done to afford agreeable employment, and 

 to prevent total intermission of anxiety and interest. 



TENDER ANNUALS. 



The green-house plants being now finally arranged 

 out of doors, the tender annuals may supply their 

 place within : intermingling with the dry and suc- 

 culent plants, which during the winter have been 

 kept in the dry and dusty corners of the back shelves, 

 and which the high temperature of your house will 

 now suit. 



The Agave, or American Aloe, is the subject of a 

 marvellous story regarding its blossoming, which it 

 is said takes place only once in a hundred years. 

 But I believe that, though there may be some foun- 

 dation for this assertion, in this cold climate, where 

 it blows at very long intervals, it blooms in more 

 southern ones, once in four or five years, and then it 

 is truly a splendid object its flower-stalk starting 

 up twenty or thirty feet in height. The tender an- 

 nuals which are not destined for the green-house are 

 to be planted in the flower borders from the hot-bed. 



