118 FLOWER-GARDENING. 



All wood that grows after this pruning will ripen perfectly, and 

 produce large flowers the ensuing year. 



If the weather be warm and dry, it may be necessary to 

 water such flowering shrubs and Roses as were planted in the 

 spring ; and if Dahlia plants could be watered two or three 

 times a week, it would be beneficial to their growth. Give 

 regular sprinklings from the rose of a watering-pot, or syringe, 

 to shrubby plants in general, but particularly Camellias, Orange 

 and Lemon trees, etc., in order to keep them in a healthy state. 



Bulbous roots in pots, whose foliage has withered, should be 

 kept dry until the period of regermination. Others may be 

 taken up as soon as ripe ; after which the offsets may be parted 

 off, and both these and the parent bulbs dried for planting in 

 autumn. 



The flower-garden should be kept weeded and watered, and 

 the seeds gathered as they ripen. Apply neat rods to tall- 

 growing and running kinds of plants. Nip off curled and dead 

 leaves, and destroy insects. Hydrangeas, Daisies, Polyanthus, 

 Primulas, etc., should be kept shaded from the noon-day sun, or 

 they will droop, and some may die. Carnations and Pinks 

 will need frequent waterings at the roots, and the branches 

 should be tied neatly to rods. 



Such flowering shrubs as may have been planted late in the 

 spring season, should be regularly watered in dry weather. 

 Give frequent waterings to the flower-beds, in general; cut 

 down dead flower-stalks ; remove decayed plants, and care- 

 fully replace them with vigorous ones from the nursery-bed. 



CAMELLIAS, OR JAPAN ROSES. 



Camellias, or Japan Roses. There are numerous varieties 

 of this valuable class of plants, exhibiting every shade of color, 

 from deep crimson to the purest white ; in some imperceptibly 



