CALENDAR OI OPERATIONS. 77 



iary ; and on any appearance of the green fly, fumigate them with 

 tobacco. 



At the North, roses should be planted out in borders for summer 

 blooming. 



If this month be at all forward, you may bud ; and if you have 

 wood given to you when you are not ready for it, put the ends in wet 

 sand, and a hand glass over them ; but the sooner you can use the 

 buds after you have got them the better. The stocks must be put in 

 completely all over, except one or two eyes beyond the bud on the 

 branches in which the bud is inserted. All China Roses in pots or 

 out of doors may be budded, and so also may all the smooth-barked 

 kinds. 



Plant out the young seedlings potted last month, in beds four feet 

 wide, in the same soil, without disturbing the balls of earth ; let them 

 be six inches from the side of the bed, and a foot apart each way. 

 Protect them from vermin by all ordinary means; shade them from 

 the heat of the sun at mid-day ; wate,- if required. 



At the North, roses of all kinds planted in open ground, may be 

 layered the last of this month. Perpetual Roses will bloom best in 

 autumn, if they are pruned in after having opened their first flowers. 



Continue the budding, and use every precaution to prevent the 

 stock from growing, and remove suckers the instant they appear 

 above ground. Nothing should be allowed to grow, except, just 

 beyond the bud ; a shoot may be beneficial, as it draws the sap past 

 the bud; but as soon as it is united and doing well, anything growing 

 beyond it may be broken off, or bent down to check it a little. Cut- 

 tings of the smooth-barked kinds will strike almost every month in the 

 year ; but at the end of this month, whatever you may be anxious to 

 propagate may be struck in the shade, under a hand glass, or even 

 quicker where there is a little bottom heat. 



The same directions will also appl/ to the North. 



