How to manage a Garden 



Harden off stuff to be planted out. Prepare cold frames 

 for many inside plants. Plant Brussels sprouts. Hoe and 

 weed among all plants. Earth up potatoes. Stake peas. 

 Thin peaches and nectarines. Plant out forced straw- 

 berries, also such forced stuff as spireas, arums, azaleas, &c. 

 Plant tomatoes and marrows at end of month. Stake 

 border and malmaison carnations. Thin flower buds on 

 latter, also on roses. Syringe for mildew and green fly. 

 Keep all houses regularly damped. Shade flowers from 

 sun to keep them longer. Give ample air. Prepare soil 

 for final potting of chrysanthemums. Stop sublaterals on 

 vines and peaches to one leaf. Prepare beds for summer 

 bedding. Water all plants needing it during hot weather. 

 Look out for slugs and insect pests, and use preventive 

 measures. 



June. 



Put straw beneath strawberries to keep fruit clean. Bed 

 out all summer plants. Put stakes to runner beans. 

 Plant celery, leeks, and winter greens. Pot chrysan- 

 themums, and stand outside in rows. Put nets over fruit- 

 trees. Support broad beans with cord. Pinch tops when 

 first pods are formed. Tie in growths of peaches and 

 nectarines. Sow more cinerarias, and prick and pot off 

 others. Put primulas, tree carnations, cyclamen, geraniums, 

 &c., in cold frames. Layer malmaison carnations in 

 frames. Plant dahlias. Pot on all plants requiring it. 

 Put leaves of gloxinias in sandy soil to root. Mulch many 

 plants to save watering. Look over inside plants twice 

 a day. Give vines plenty of air. Let not the foliage 

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