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all your plants from the hot-bed should by this time be well 

 a growing in open air. Roses will be showing their buds. 

 It' large roses of a favorite sort are required, more than half 

 the buds should be taken off, and the whole strength of the 

 plant be given to the remainder. The soil for this best of 

 all flowers, cannot be too rich, nortoo deep. 



6. WORK FOR JUNE. May, June, and September are the 

 dairy months. The best butter and the best cheese are 

 usually made in these months. If you are not neat, you 

 do not know how to make cheese or butter. Uncleanliness 

 affects not only the looks, but the quality of butter. Broad, 

 shallow glass pans are the best, but the most expensive. In 

 these milk seldom turns sour in summer thunder-storms. 

 Tin pans are good, but unless the dairy-woman is scrupu- 

 lously neat, the seams will be filled with residuum of milk 

 and become very foul, giving a flavor to each successive 

 panful. The principal requisites for prime butter are, 

 good cows, good pasture for them, clean pans, cool, airy 

 cellars, clean churns. Let the cream be churned before it 

 is sour or bitter ; and when the butter comes, at least three 

 thorough workings will be necessary to drive out all the 

 butter-milk. 



GARDEN. Transplant flowers; destroy all weeds; get 

 out cabbages; more lettuce; get ready celery trenches; 

 layer favorite roses, vines, etc. ; examine and remove from 

 the peach-tree root, the grub which is destroying them. 

 Sow salt under plum-trees put on a coat two inches 

 thick. 



Transplant flowers ; bud roses with fine kinds ; see that 

 large plants are tied neatly to frames or stakes. Every 

 morning examine your beds of cabbage, etc., for cut-worms, 

 and destroy them if found ; plant succession crops of peas, 

 corn, radishes, lettuce, etc. 



7. WORK FOR JULY. Great difference of practice and 

 opinion exists as to the methods and time of harvesting. 

 Some cut their grass while the dew is on it ; others cut it 



