SEASONABLE REMINDERS. 347 



Garden Work. The sun heat is likely to be sufficiently powerful to 

 make the setting out of cabbage, cauliflower, &c,, a ticklish operation, but 

 it should be done at every opportunity, giving sufficient water to the young 

 plants to start them strong ; fresh sowing of seeds are necessary to keep 

 up the supply of plants. Onions, beet, parsnips, and carrots are safe 

 crops, and can be got in at once. Sow for turnips, lettuce, Brussels 

 sprouts, savoys, <fec., and make the land as rich as possible for setting out 

 plants. Beans can be planted still ; also peas. Earth up the celery, and 

 prepare land for mustard, cress, and other salads, which may he grown in 

 abundance all through the winter, if water can be spared for them. 



Fruit Garden. Attention has to be paid to the peach and other trees 

 budded during January. Where the stocks are sluggish in sap flow, let 

 the roots have some fertilizer with water to stimulate them. Where 

 bananns and pines are backward, liquid manure is absolutely necessary to 

 bring on the fruit before winter comes, with frost, perhaps. 



Pruning Planting. It is considered good practice to prune peaches 

 and stone fruits generally, as soon as the fruit is off, by cutting out freely 

 such limbs and branches as are not necessary. The time will soon be on 

 for transplanting, and the variety of fruits available for the warm districts 

 is really endless. Trench and drain the land thoroughly, in order to be 

 ready for them. 



Fruits Available. The peaches include flat China, which come amongst 

 the first of the early sorts ; then the large family of peaches, apricots, and 

 nectarines, oranges, lemon, limes, citrons, guavas, of which there are now 

 several very excellent sorts, the purple and yellow being suited especially 

 for the northern districts, loquats, date plums, Brazil cherries, mangoes, 

 4c. Plant out strawberries as soon as the shoots are rooted sufficiently 

 for removal. 



Flower Garden. The bulb-planting season is now on. Sow for 

 annuals. Prune roses. Carnations, pinks, geraniums, &c , can be set out. 

 la other respects, the reminders for southern districts are suitable. 



Flower Seeds Available. Abrouia, ageratum, sweet alyssum, antir- 

 rhinum (snapdragon), aquilegia (columbine), bartonia, double daisy, cal- 

 liopsis, Canterbury bells, candytuft, carnation, chrysanthemums, clarkia, 

 collinsia, cowslip, cornflower, dahlia, diauthus, digitalis (foxglove), exhs- 

 choltzia, forget-me-not, fuchsias, gaillardia, geranium, hollyhock, larkspur, 

 lavender, lobelias, lupins, marigold, mignonette, nemophila, pansy, pelar- 

 gonium, pentstemon, phlox, pinks, picotee, polyanthus, poppy, pyrethrum 

 (golden feather), scabiosa, stocks, sweet William, verbena, sweet violet, 

 wallflower, zinnia, &c. , &c. 



For Greenhouse and Bush-house Culture. Auricula, begonia, calceo- 

 laria, cineraria, cyclamen, gloxinia, mimulus, primula. Sow in well- 

 drained pots or boxes, and transplant during showery or cloudy weather. 



WINTER FIELD AND GARDEN OPERATIONS. 

 MAY, JUNE, JULY. 



Usual Weather. Warm days, cold nights, and stoppage in growth of 

 all crops of the warm season are in order. When rains fall at this time, 



