464 SATURDAY IN MY GARDEN 



out foliage from centre of bushes and standards to admit 



light and air. 



14. Divide and replant mint. Earth up potatoes that require it. 

 15. Make another sowing of runner beans if there is space for them 



and sow another row or two of turnips. 

 16. Sow a first batch of wallflowers in boxes. 

 17. Keep down weeds in the vegetable garden by frequent use of the 



hoe. 

 18. Sow seeds of ornamental gourds and pumpkins out of doors and 



treat as for vegetable marrows. 

 19. Tomatoes in the greenhouse beginning to show fruit should be 



fed with weak doses of liquid manure or be top-dressed with 



dry fertilisers. 

 20. Start planting out summer bedding subjects, beginning with 



edgings such as alyssum, lobelia, pyrethrum, etc. 

 21. Plant out early flowering chrysanthemums. Sow more hardy 



annuals for late flowering. 

 22. Remove arum lilies that have flowered from greenhouse and plant 



in trenches out of doors. 

 23. Lift bulbs from flower beds and plant in reserve bed to ripen off. 



Thin out hardy annuals. 

 24. Plant out geraniums, dahlias, fuchsias and other tender subjects 



in their summer quarters. 

 25. Attend carefully to ventilation of greenhouse. Syringe plants 



night and morning and water freely on hot days. Repot 



azaleas and heaths if they need it. 

 26. Plant out half-hardy annuals raised in heat and afterwards 



hardened off in frames. 



27. Divide and replant aubrietias and arabis. Give the same treat- 

 ment to bolder auriculas. 

 28. Continue planting out for summer bedding, especially in damp 



weather. If ground -is dry attend carefully to watering 



plants turned out from pots. 



29. Make another sowing of French and runner beans for succession. 

 30. Place clean straw between strawberry plants to keep fruit clean. 

 31. Syringe wall fruit-trees to keep down insect pests and maintain 



foliage in healthy condition. 



