320 Horticultural Memoranda. 



care until after the crop is all gathered. Continue to look after the new 

 wood, and lay it carefully in. Vines started later, without fire heat, will 

 now be coloring their fruit, and will need more attention as to air, &c. 

 Give an abundance, early, in fine weather, and close up the house in good 

 season. Inarching vines with the young wood of the present season, as 

 advised at p. 233, may be done now. Vines in the open air should be 

 pruned of all superfluous wood, and well staked or tied to the trellis or 

 wall. Young cuttings, in pots, should be repotted into the next size. 



Strawberry Beds. — August and April are the two best months to make 

 new beds of strawberries, although the work may be done safely in Sep- 

 tember and May. Plantations may be made this month. Old beds should 

 not be allowed to run to weeds. 



Plum, Cherry, Apple and Pear Trees should be budded in August ; 

 perhaps the earlier the better, unless the dry weather continues. 



Raspberry Plantations should be attended to, and fruit-bearing stems of 

 last year pruned out as soon as the fruit is picked. 



Seeds of Fruit Trees, of all sorts, should be either planted or laid in the 

 earth, to prevent their becoming too dry. 



FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 



T/ic Dahlias will soon get up so as to show an abundance of flower- 

 buds. If insects trouble them, syringe with oil soap. Continue to tie 

 up the shoots as they advance in growth. 



Camellias should be repotted this month. Grafting and inarching may 

 be performed now, and cuttings put in for a succession of stocks. 



Azaleas should be repotted this month ; cuttings may now be put in 

 with success. 



Chrysanthemums should now have the shoots topped, so as to form 

 bushy plants. 



Orange and Lemon Trees may yet be budded with success. 



White Lilies should be taken up the latter part of the month, if a di- 

 vision of the bulbs is required. 



Oxalis Hirta and Buwiei may be potted this month for early blooming. 



Cyclamens should be placed out in the open ground in a half-shady 

 border. 



Pansies may yet be increased by cuttings. Now is the best time to 

 sow seeds for raising plants to bloom next season. 



Cactuses, of the various kinds, may now be increased from cuttings. 



Hydrangeas may now be propagated by cuttings. 



Callas should now be allowed to remain dry till October. 



Geranium Cuttings may yet be put in. Repot old plants. 



Biennial and Perennial Plants, raised from seeds, should now be trans- 

 planted where they are to remain to bloom. 



Mignonette, for flowering in pots, at Christmas, should now be planted, 

 and the pots placed in a cold frame. 



Roses may still be increased by cuttings or layers. 



Stocks Seeds, sown last month, will have made plants by the middle of 

 the month sufficiently large to prick oflT into small pots. 



Greenhouse Plants, of all sorts, may now be safely potted ; if done at 

 this season, they get well established before they are taken into the green- 

 house for the winter. It is better to jjcrform such work now than to defer 

 till September. 



