JUNE] THE PLEASURE, OR FLOWER GARDEN. 443 



NEWLY GRAFTED AND BUDDED TREES. 



Take off the clay and loosen the bandages of your grafted trees, 

 and where any have made remarkably vigorous shoots and seem to 

 need support to protect them from the power of violent winds, but 

 more especially in exposed situations, let stakes be placed thereto, 

 and the shoots bound to them with strings of bass or such like. 



The vigorous shoots from the buds inserted last season may, under 

 like circumstances, require similar support, which ought to be given 

 when deemed necessary. 



Be very particular to rub off such young shoots proceeding from 

 the stocks as are independent of the grafts or the inserted bud- 

 shoots; for those, if suffered to remain, would rob the grafts and 

 budded shoots of a great portion of nourishment, and therefore ought 

 to be displaced as often as they appear. 



BUDDING. 



Budding might now be practised on most kinds of trees and shrubs, 

 but when done at this time, the inserted buds, generally, grow in the 

 present year, and the shoots arising therefrom are much weaker, and 

 worse prepared to withstand the winter frost than those produced in 

 spring, from the buds inserted the preceding autumn; and, in fact, 

 such seldom make but indifferent trees. Therefore, it will be much 

 better not to attempt this work, except upon a few roses or other 

 shrubs, until the latter end of July and the autumnal months, as 

 hereafter directed. The method of performing the operation you 

 will find in the Nursery for July. 



THE PLEASURE, OR FLOWER GARDEN. 



HYACINTHS AND TULIPS. 



Most of your hyacinths and tulips will, in the course of this 

 month, be fit for taking up, and then are to be treated as directed on 

 pages 407 and 408. 



TAKING UP EARLY FLOWERING BULBS IN GENERAL. 



^ All the different kinds of spring flowering bulbs, such as fritilla- 

 rias, crown imperials, crocuses, snow-drops, &c., whose leaves are now 

 decayed, may be taken up and treated as directed more particularly 

 in the Flower Garden for last month. 



GUERNSEY AND BELLADONNA AMARYLLISES. 



The roots of the Guernsey and belladonna amaryllis may now, if 

 their leaves are quite decayed, be taken up, their offsets separated, 



