374 MONTHLY CALENDAR. 



Such greenhouse plants as may have done blossoming 

 may be primed this month, and if the cuttings be planted at 

 this time they will strike freely. 



Cuttings of Salvia splendens and fulgens^ will produce 

 strong plants for blossoming in August, if planted early in 

 this month, 232. Chrysanthemum cuttings should now be 

 put down, and the suckers divided, and planted singly in the 

 borders, or in pots, for flowering in the Autumn, 220. 



FRUIT 



Finish planting trees, vines, and shrubs as early in this 

 month as possible ; those planted last month should be kept 

 watered in dry weather, and stakes should be applied to such 

 as may be exposed to the wind, 311, 319 and 337. 



je'inish grafting early in this month, 257. Apples, Pears, 

 and other late shooting kinds may still succeed. 



Strawberry beds may be made this month, and if the 

 transplanting is well done, and the plants frequently 

 watered, they will produce some fruit this year, and a plen- 

 tiful supply the next season. The Methven Scarlet, and 

 Mulberry or Pine, are large and yield plentifully. Kean's 

 seedling, and also the Downton are of superior flavour. The 

 Elton seedling, Southborough seedling, Myatt's seedling, 

 and Bishop's orange, are in great repute where cultivated. 

 The Wood and the Alpine Strawberry will produce finer 

 fruit from seed sown in the Spring than from offsets. For 

 mode of planting, &c., see article page 346. 



If frost prevail when fruit trees are in blossom, those 

 trained on trellises or against walls and fences, jnay be pro. 

 tected by hanging matting or sheets of tow cloth over them ; 

 some defend them by sticking bunches of evergreens 

 between the branches, as cedar, laurel, pine, &c. The object 

 in doing this, is not so much to keep out the frost, as to 

 break off the sun's rays in the morning after a frosty night ; 

 see page 41, also flower department for December. 



Propagate Fig trees, by layers, cuttings, suckers, and by 

 grafting, 286. 



