240 Horticultural Memoranda. 



Hardy Roses should now be pruned, being careful to cut well in, with the 

 exception of Hybrid Chinas and Bengals. Prairre roses should also have a 

 portion of the old wood cut out, in order to give place for the new. 

 Hydrangeas, if wanted for fine specimens, should now be shifted. 

 Chinese Primrose seeds should be sown this month to make fine plants 

 for the autumn. 



Heaths, Epacrises, and similar plants, should now be propagated from cut- 

 tings. 



Scarlet Geraniums should now be propagated for a stock for next win- 

 ter. 



Verbenas and Petunias of fine sorts may now be propagated by cuttings 

 for turning out into the border. 



Gladioluses, Tigerjiowers, and other spring bulbs, may be set out in the 

 open border now. 



Fuchsias will need another shift now, if fine specimens are wanted. No 

 plant is more ornamental than this, and, if properly treated, they form the 

 very finest ornaments for the balcony or verandah, during the months of 

 July, August, and September. 



Pansies, managed as we have directed, should now be planted out in beds 

 properly prepared. 



Dahlias may be put out the latter part of the month, or as soon as all 

 danger of frost is over. [See the remarks in a previous page of the present 

 number.] 



Carnations and picoiees, wintered in frames, should now be turned out 

 into beds, where they will bloom better than in pots. 



Annual Seeds of all kinds may be sown now in beds, and, after being 

 properly thinned, they may be put out to fill vacant places in the border. 



Daphnes should now be propagated from cuttings of the young wood just 

 hardened. 



Chrysanthemums should now be propagated, either by cuttings or suckers. 

 Cyclamens done blooming may be removed to a cold frame. 

 Phloxes should now be taken up, divided and reset, in order to have fine 

 blooming specimens. 



Cactuses, now coming into bloom, should be liberally watered. 

 Salvias of the several kinds may be planted out the last of the month. 

 Herbaceous plants of many kinds may be safely transplanted until the mid- 

 dle of the month, or even later. 



Roses in Pots, wanted for early flowering specimens in the autumn, may 

 now be encouraged to make new wood by a shift into a larger size. 



Cape Jasmines may now be easily increased by cuttings placed in a little 

 bottom heat. 



Greenhouse Plants of all kinds may be now propagated before the very 

 hot weather sets in. Every zealous amateur, or enterprising gardener, will 

 find an abundance of labor to occupy him this month, which is, in truth, 

 the busiest of the year. The out-door garden, too, will need every 

 attention, and to have a succession of showy flowers throughout the season 

 ahauld be the mala object of every gardener who knows his duty. 



