134 MONTHLY CALENDAR. [June, 



JUNE. 



" The sky dress'd in placid soft redness at night, 

 Portends the next day will be cloudless and bright j 

 A fierce angry redness that shoots up at morn, 

 And tinges the clouds, is a token of storm. ' r 



The principal sowing season may be considered as past ; 

 but if any failures should have happened of former sowings, 

 seeds may be sown the early part of this month, which if 

 kept watered occasionally, will grow quickly. 



Greenhouse plants will need watering every evening, in 

 dry warm weather ; and in the absence of dews, some 

 sorts may need a little in the morning at sunrise, 104 ; 

 Hydrangeas, Daisies, Polyanthus, Primulas, &c. should be 

 kept shaded from the noonday sun, or they will droop, and 

 some may die. Carnations and Pinks will need frequent 

 waterings at the roots, and the branches should be tied 

 neatly to rods. 



Such flowering shrubs as may have been planted late in 

 the Spring season, should be regularly watered in dry weather. 

 Give frequent waterings to the flower beds, in general ; cut 

 down dead flower stalks ; remove decayed planls, and care- 

 fully replace them with vigorous ones from the nursery bed. 

 Transplant annual flower plants into the regular beds, with 

 a small trowel or neat dibble, 26. 



Plant Colchicums, 69; finish planting Dahlias, and pro- 

 vide poles for their support, 81andS2 ; water them occasion- 

 ally in dry weather. 



Many sorts of bulbous roots will be ripe by the end of this 

 month ; these should be taken up, and dried as directed, 

 page 64 Those cultivated in pots should not be watered 

 after the foliage is decayed, until the period of regermination 

 takes place, 65 and 98. 



Nnmerous beautiful flowers exhibit themselves this months 

 s ome of which are noticed in an article entitled The Beauties 

 of April and May, page 52 to 61. There are, howeve 



