A Garden Calendar 



become scorched. Keep border well damped to ward 

 off red spider. Use weed-killer on walks. Tie in main 

 shoots of wall fruit. 



July. 



Mulch peach border. Give artificial manure to vines, 

 and cut out bad berries. Sponge plants to keep down 

 mealy bug and scale, and fumigate regularly for thrip and 

 green fly. Put tub beneath spouting of house to catch all 

 water. Sow cabbage for spring use. Clean herbaceous 

 border and stake all plants that need it. Layer straw- 

 berries in pots for forcing and for new plantations. Pre- 

 pare ground for new plantations. Tie up raspberry canes 

 loosely. Leave off syringing peaches when they com- 

 mence to colour. Keep seed pods pulled off sweet peas 

 and rhododendrons. Summer prune apples and pears 

 by cutting growth back to four or five buds. Clip hedges 

 with shears, except laurels, where the knife should be used. 

 Dig up 'early potatoes, choosing best for seed. Dry off 

 gloxinias which have finished flowering. Keep celery well 

 watered. Sow more spinach. Keep side shoots pinched 

 from tomatoes. Make up mushroom bed. Bud roses. 

 Peg down many bedding plants. Stake dahlias. Mow 

 lawns every week. Look well after chrysanthemums. Tie 

 shoots to stakes or wire' fence. 



August. 



Layer carnations. Pot up strawberries in six-inch pots, 

 and plant others out two feet apart. Keep cyclamen well 

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