KALENDAft. 



May. 



KITCHEN-GARDEN. Soio succession crops of Windsor, long- 

 pod, and kidney beans ; broccoli for spring use, cauliflowers for 

 December, Indian corn, cress, cucumbers under hand-glass, onions 

 to plant out next spring, peas, pumpkins, radishes, salsafy, skirret, 

 spinage, squash. Prick out celery, and move cucumbers sowed 



last month. Plant potatoes, and squashes sowed last month.- 



FRUIT-GARDEN. Look to your grafts, and loosen or take off the 



bandages; disbud fruit-trees. FLOWER-BORDERS. Weed, and 



set out plants just coming up, to their proper distances from one 

 another. At about the middle of the month, or the end, sow again 

 for succession, larkspurs, mignonette, ten-week stock and wall- 

 flower-leaved stock, minor convolvulus, and Virginia stock. Pro- 

 pagate by cuttings, slips, and layers. Pot out geraniums, fuchsias, 

 and other green-house plants. 



KITCHEN-GARDEN. Soiv Windsor and long-pod, and kidney 

 beans, pumpkins, and tomatums. Thin out young asparagus 

 plants. Weed all the garden over. Clip box-edgings, and quick- 

 set also. FRUIT-GARDEN. Tie up young grafted trees, water 



newly-planted ones if dry weather, net up morello cherries and 



currants. FLOWER-BORDERS. Take up bulbous-rooted plants 



and put them by. Tie tall-growing flowers up to sticks. 



July. 



KITCHEN-GARDEN. Sow kidney-beans, early dwarf cabbages, 

 cress, endive, squashes for a late crop, turnips. Plant out celery in 



trenches, leeks. -FRUIT-GARDEN. Begin budding. Water newly 



planted trees, nail font-trees that want it, head down young espa- 

 liers, stop fruit-bearing shoots of vines. FLOWER-GARDEN. 



Pipe carnations and pinks; divide roots of Auricula and plant 

 them. 



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