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HORTICULTURAL OPERATIONS 



FOR JUNE. 

 FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Grape Vines in the greenhouse will now be swelling their fruit rapidly, 

 and where the thinning has all been done they will only require the ordinary 

 routine of air and moisture. Give the former early in the morning in fine 

 weather, and close rather early in the afternoon; keep the house well 

 damped in fine weather ; watering the floor morning and night. If dry 

 weather should set in after the late drenching rains, the border should have 

 one thorough watering about the last of the month, giving at the same time 

 a slight sprinkling of guano ; mulching will be also of great benetit to the 

 border in the dry weather of summer. Continue to stop all laterals that 

 push at the first joint ; see that all the bunches are well shouldered, and if 

 very handsome clusters are an object, it may be well to go over now, and thin 

 out, here and there, such berries as crowd the bunch and impede their swel- 

 ling up to a large size. If the borders have not been dug, they should at 

 once be completed. 



Vines in the open air, as soon as the shoots have attained the length of 

 two eyes beyond the fruit-buds, should be immediately topped ; any large 

 shoots may now be cut away without any danger from bleeding ; tie in all 

 the new Avood carefully, and do not let the vines become too much crowded. 

 Young vines raised from cuttings in pots should now have a shift into a lar- 

 ger size, and be kept in a frame with a mild bottom heat. 



Now is just the time to graft vines in the open ground, after the shoots 

 have grown two or three inches. 



Strawberry Beds will now need to be thoroughly wed out, as this can- 

 not be done again till after the crop is gathered. If nice clean fruit is 

 wanted, new straw, cut up short, should be strewn along tlie rows and among 

 the plants, or, if not convenient, short grass may be used ; this will protect 

 it from being covered with earth during heavy rains. New beds may be 

 successfully made all the month, where it has been forgotten or omitted 

 for want of time. The crop will be as good the next year as if the plants 

 were set out in April. 



Fruit Trees will need some attention now ; those that are very for- 

 ward by the last of the month should have the top of the longest shoots nipped 

 off. Young trees, bearing rather heavy crops, would do better to have a 

 good mulching of rotten cow-dung or old litter of any kind. Plum trees 

 that are infested with curculios should be shaken twice a day ; gathering 

 up the insects in a cloth and burning them. 



Peach Trees in pots, started in the greenhouse or grapery, may now be 

 moved into the open air — in a sheltered place. Water freely with liquid 

 manure, as tlie fruit attains a good size. 



Fig Trees may also be removed to the open air. 



flower department. 

 Camellias may now be removed to the open air, if tlieir buds are well 

 set, if not, they should remain unler cover a few days longer. Place them 



