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number of such cases will not be great, as most do best 

 from later buds. Look out for green- and black-fly. If 

 either should attack the plants, dust with tobacco powder 

 and syringe vigorously an hour or two later. Should it 

 be observed that any leaves are getting covered with 

 white streaks, squeeze them to kill the maggots within. 

 If small warts should appear on the leaves, touch them 

 very carefully with methylated spirit, and then spray the 

 plants with water in which half an ounce of sulphide of 

 potassium per gallon has been dissolved. If the warts 

 are allowed to develop, the plants may be destroyed by 

 the fungoid disease called " rust." 



August. If any garden plants are being grown as a 

 reserve in a spare bed they should be planted out after 

 the first showery spell. Should the weather remain hot 

 and dry, they may still be planted, but it would be wise 

 to chop round the plants with a spade the day before 

 they were shifted, to check root action, and then give a 

 soaking with water. Moreover, they should be moved 

 towards evening, and afterwards well syringed. Plants 

 already established in beds and borders will be coming 

 into bloom. A soaking of liquid manure will do them 

 good. The majority of the varieties grown in pots for 

 large blooms will show their crown buds the second or 

 third week in August. The new growth shoots just 

 below them should be pinched out at once, leaving the 

 flower-bud standing alone. Continue the watering and 

 treatment for insects advised under July. Bush plants 

 in pots may be showing buds in clusters. Do not thin 

 if plenty of small flowers are wanted, but disbud if a few 

 larger flowers are required. 



September. Garden plants will be in full beauty this 

 month. The flowers may be gathered freely, as with 

 moisture and liquid manure fresh growth and flowers 



