MONTHLY CALENDAR. 153 



JULY. 



Pinks and Carnations, ye are fair to view, 

 Creative wisdom shines in every liue; 

 Ye raise the mind, improve the human heart, 

 And goodly precepts gracefully impart. 



Green-bouse plants will need daily care at this season; 

 let them be watered every evening in dry weatbei*. Such 

 Geraniums as may bave grown large and unwieldly, should 

 now be pruned, in order that their size and appearance may 

 be improved, 101. 



Garden Roses, having done flowering for the season, 

 should also be pruned. Cut out all old exhausted wood, and 

 where it is too thick and crowded, shorten such shoots as have 

 flowered, to a good fresh strong eye, or bud, accompanied 

 with a healthy leaf. All wood that grows after this pruning 

 will ripen j^erfectly, and produce large flowers the ensuing 

 year. 



If dry warm w^eather, 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 

 weelc, 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, &c., in order to keep them in a healthy 

 state. 



Such bulbous roots in pots, whose foliage have withered, 

 should be kept dry until the period of re-germination, 66 

 and 94 ; 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, 65. 



The flower garden should be kept weeded and watered, 

 and the seed gathered as they ripen ; apply neat rods to tall- 

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

 dead leaves, and destroy insects, 15. 



Orange and Lemon trees may be budded at any time this 

 month, and those which were headed down in the spring 



