CALENDAR— JUNE. 409 



In the first weeji, plant out love-apples in vacant spaces 

 along the bottom of a south wall. 



Forcing. — Proceed "with planting melons and cucum- 

 bers raised from seeds and cutting?, for late crops. Keep 

 up, by linings, the necessary temperature for ripening of 

 the fruit. Continue the cultivation of the pinery stated 

 for last month ; but, if you wish very large-sized fruit, 

 and do not care about preserving suckers, remove the 

 whole suckers from the stems and roots, and apply heat 

 and water in abundance. Shift suckers and succession- 

 plants in the beginning and middle of the month, as the 

 state of the plants may require. 



Vines and Peaches, ^fe., may have the same treat- 

 ment as stated last month. Little water and a good 

 deal of air must be given to those houses where the fruit 

 is beginning to ripen. Those in which the fruit is past 

 ought to be constantly under a system of thorough ven- 

 tilation. 



The Green-Jioiise will now be occupied with tender 

 green-house plants and annuals, and the more hardy 

 plants from the stove, for here these last will remain 

 longer in flower. Shift, repot, and propagate all fine 

 plants, perennials, biennials, or annuals, and cuttings 

 of all sorts that are desirable. Sow fragrant or showy 

 annuals, to flower in pots during w^in4;er. 



Flmver G-arden. — Take up bulbs and tuberous roots, 

 and dry them in the shade before you remove them to 

 the store-room. Fill up with annuals. and green-house 

 plants those beds from which the bulbs and roots have 

 been raised. After this season, keep always a reserve 

 of annuals in pots, or planted on beds or thin layers 

 of well-rotted hotbed dung, from which they are easily 

 removed with balls, to fill up nny blanks which may 



