THE GARDEN WEEK BY WEEK 



June should be given at the time of closing, as this maintains 

 ^~^5 a moist atmosphere, which is favourable to healthy 

 progress. The principal shoots should be pegged down 

 to the bed at a sufficient distance apart to prevent 

 crowding. Fruit will form on the side shoots, which 

 should be pinched a leaf beyond the fruit. 



Carrot Maggot. — If any plants in the Carrot bed are 

 seen to be turning rusty, they should be removed and 

 burned, the bed thinned, the soil trodden firmly against 

 the crowns, and some ashes, moistened with paraffin oil, 

 sprinkled between the rows. The trouble brewing^ 

 which comes from a small maggot that hatches from 

 eggs laid at the tops of the roots by a fly, will then be 

 checked. 



Onion Maggot. — Young Onions go off in very much 

 the same way as Carrots, also from the attack of a 

 maggot, but this results from eggs laid on the leaves. 

 The foliage should be rendered distasteful to the egg- 

 laying fly by spraying on a paraffin-oil and soft-soap 

 emulsion, made by boiling a pound of soft soap in a 

 quart of water, stirring in half a pint of paraffin, and 

 churning all up together with a syringe in a tub con- 

 taining six gallons of water. 



June JUNE— Third and Fourth Weeks 



16-30 



Flowers 



Fibrous-rooted Begonias. — The tuberous Begonias are 

 rightly esteemed for their magnificent flowers, and we 

 have seen how they may be raised from seed in winter, 

 or grown from tubers in spring. So fine are they that 

 they are apt to overshadow the fibrous section, as far 

 as summer flowering is concerned. The non-tuberous 

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