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rKACTicE OF iioiM'icci/rrKi:. 



[CALENDAH. 



Kitchen Garden. — Clear the ground, and 

 di£» it over at onco, from wliioli early crops 

 have been takon. Brusaela sprouts, kulo, 

 savojs, cabbages, broccolia, &e., bliould be 

 planted out in srrouml dci'ply dug. For wiiilor 

 spinach, seed- bods should uow bo niado up 

 and well manured, and the seed put in with- 

 out delay. In gathering French and runner 

 beans, all should bo taken or none. If seed 

 is desired, a row should be left untouched. 

 Never take green pods and seeds from the 

 same plants. Take up garlic, onions, and 

 shalots as they ripen, and store them for 

 winter. Give asparagus beds plenty of liquid 

 manure. Earth up celery for early use, and 

 plant out the main crop as soon as the ground 

 is ready. Artichokes should be cut down. 

 Hoc between all growing crops, and especi- 

 ally potatoes. Top runners, aud keep them 

 well staked. Sow the last auccession of 

 runners and French beans; also endive, 

 lettuce, peas, radish, small salads, spinach, 

 Stadtholder aud Mitchell's cauliflower, and 

 turnips. High and dry land may be planted 

 with potatoes now, for use early next spring. 



Flower Garden. — The most important 

 operation this month is budding. Out of 

 doors, cuttings of all kinds may be struck; 

 including, besides the bedding of every sort 

 of plant, most kinds of hardy evergreen 

 shrubs, the young shoots of which soon make 

 roots in the sliade. Dahlias want special 

 attention as they come into bloom. Another 

 lot of pompone chrysanthemums should be 

 struck this month, under hand-glasses, to 

 make dwarf plants for the window and green- 

 house in autumn. Layer carnations, picotees, 

 and pinks ; and put pipings of the same iuto 

 a gentle bottom-heat. 



August. 



Fruit Garden. — To keep off the birds, nets 

 should be thrown over the fruit-bushes, and a 

 little shade given to keep a few bunches 

 hanging for a late supply. Nail in all good 

 shoots on wall trees, that they may have the 

 heat of the wall to ripen them. In dry weather 

 gather fruit; and, as a rule, not till quite 

 ripe. Plant strawberries. 



Forcing Department. — Such pelargoniums 

 as have been pruned back and rested, should 

 be re-potted as soon as they have broken 



regularly. Place them in the smalleat potii 

 into wliirh their roolH can bo got, so an to 

 allow of a 8erie:i of shifta till tiiey are onco 

 tnoru in their blooming- potu. Young plantH 

 and green-houao shrubs uhould bo woll liar- 

 di-ned now btforo going to their quartera for 

 the winter. Canielliaa and azaleas should 

 have plenty of sun, and little water. Summer- 

 struck geraniums, achimenea, and fuclisiaa, 

 may bo got into bloom now, in order that a 

 display may bo kept up till Christmas. 



Everything that requires potting should bo 

 so done at once, as all plants get through 

 the winter best when their pots are full of roots. 



Kitchen Garden. — Brussels sprouts, broc- 

 colis, savoys, Scotch kale, «S:c., ought now 

 to be strong; and wiiero they have been 

 planted between rows of peas, to stand the 

 winter, they should now bo looked over, and 

 every other plant taken out, to make fresh 

 rows if they are crowded. Most sorts of 

 cabbages may be sown in the second week of 

 August ; Eed Dutch, Siiilling's Queen, Sprot- 

 borough, and West Ham, ought to have a 

 place in every garden. Prickly spinach should 

 be sown on slopes in rich soil, and plenty of 

 hardy green Hammersmith and black-seeded 

 cos lettuce. Cauliflower should be got in 

 from the 7th to the 20th, to keep over winter 

 in frames. The summer-sown endive will now 

 be strong enough to plant out on slopes or 

 raised beds. Leeks should be earthed up, 

 and the rows of parsley thinned out, so as to 

 get rid of every plant not well curled. 



Floicer Garden. — Bedding plants should be 

 propagated for stock. Strike verbenas and pe- 

 tunias from tlie points of young shoots ; and 

 strike calceolarias in chopped moss or peat. 

 Herbaceous plants, such as pansies, die- 

 lytras, double walls, double Canterbury 

 bells, double feverfew, and hollyhocks, 

 may also be struck in quantities to keep 

 over winter in frames. Dahlias and holly- 

 hocks should be kept well fastened, and put; 

 stakes to chrysanthemums before their heads 

 get heavy, as a protection against storms. 

 Porapones may still be struck for blooming in 

 pots. Pinks and carnations may be planted 

 out in nursery beds, in well-manured loam. 

 Give plenty of water to chrysanthemums, 

 with occasional doses of strong liquid manure. 

 Pansies may be sown, as may also most hardy 



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