1 06 ^-J RDENING BY M YSELF. 



bud. From this a new flower shoot will 

 spring out, and your bushes will be in much 

 more constant bloom. In this, or in any 

 other pruning, cut clean and short, not with 

 a long slant. 



• SHORT PRUNING. SLANT PRUNING. 



If anything has hindered your preventing 

 the attack of the slugs, still wage war on 

 them now. A few leaves may be injured 

 and need clipping off; but whale-oil soap- 

 suds will triumph in the end, and j'-our roses 

 come out all fresh and bright in the latter 

 part of the season. 



I planted at the back of some beds where 

 a sort of screen was wanted, a row of gay 

 vines — Ipomcea limbata, and I. kermesina, 

 and the new bright yellow convolvulus, start- 

 ing them first in the house. Thej^ grow 



