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always produce the finest flowers. The turf is now mown once a week, and 

 the gravel is attended to as in the preceding months. Of all the flowers which 

 adorn the garden during this month, those of the Psebnia Moutan and Moutan 

 joapaveracea are the most showy ; but there is also now in bloom Magnolz'a 

 Soulangeawa, and M. acuminata. Azalea indica alba and purpurea (which in 

 this garden have survived the winter for the last four years, only protected by 

 a slight covering of furze) are now beginning to expand their beautiful 

 bloom ; also Ledum latifolium, Kalmz'a glauca, Caragdna frutescens, Robinia 

 hispida, Halesk tetraptera, Faccinium stamineum, Mahonk fascicularis and 

 Jquifolium, and Ribes missouriense. Of the herbaceous plants that flower during 

 this month, the following are the most showy : — /Vis pumila, Veronica gen- 

 twrioides and repens, Geatidna acaulis and alpina, Erpetion reniformis, Cam- 

 panula punctata, Erythrse N a aggregata, Trillium grandiflorum, ffinothera 

 pumila, Saponaria ocymoides, O'xalis flava and floribunda, Potentilla rupes- 

 tris; Aquilegia sibirica, grandiflora, and canadensis; Pentstemon campanulatus, 

 Erodium romanum, Trifolium uniflorum, Calceolaria rugosa, ^sphodelus albus, 

 Adyseton saxatile, Oenothera Lindleya«a and bifrons, Clarkfa pulchella, Schi- 

 zanthus pinnatus (the annuals having been sown in September, and kept in 

 a frame during winter), and heartsease in almost endless variety. 



June, — The first object of my care, at the beginning of this month, is the 

 rosary, which I carefully examine, in order to destroy any grubs that may yet 

 remain; and also the green fly (A v phis) which infests the roses at this season, 

 which is easily killed with tobacco water. I put half a pound of the best shag 

 tobacco to a gallon of hot water, and as soon as the infusion has become cold, 

 I dip all the buds and infested parts of the young shoots into it, letting them 

 remain a few seconds in the water. If they are very much infested, I go over 

 them a second time. After this I wash them with clean water; and I am 

 amply rewarded for my trouble with clean, beautiful, well-blown flowers. I 

 now plant out georginas, mostly on borders by themselves, from 4 ft. to 5 ft. 

 apart each way. By planting them at this distance asunder, and growing 

 them with single stems, they produce larger flowers, and do not attain more 

 than two thirds of the height they usually reach when planted only two or three 

 feet asunder. I now plant out in a bed by themselves all the varieties of cal- 

 ceolarias, which have been forwarded for this purpose in a frame. Nothing 

 can exceed the beauty of a bed of this beautiful tribe of plants. The follow- 

 ing green-house shrubs are now planted in the turf: — Acacia lophantha and 

 dealbata; Fuchsz'a conica, gracilis, arbdrea, and /ycioides; ikfimulus gluti- 

 nosus, Corrae v « speciosa, Lavatera triloba, Othonna [?] septemfida, Lupinus 

 mutabilis var. Cruckshankzaw?^, Bordm'a denticulata, Leonotis Leonurus, 

 Humea elegans, and Polygala latifolia. I also place on the turf baskets of 

 pelargoniums, ixias, and sparaxises, German stocks, Sehizanthus Hooken, 

 and Ferbena chamasdrifolia. In the borders are planted all the dwarf sorts of 

 fuchsias and cinerarias, pelargoniums, teucriums, cistuses, E'pacris grandi- 

 flora, .Dolichos lignosus, escallionias, arctotises, Sutherlandza frutescens, 

 Genista canariensis, heliotropiums, &c. Young cuttings of sweet-scented 

 and other China roses are planted in a shady border under hand-glasses. 

 I prefer this month to any other for striking roses, as the cuttings soon form 

 roots, and most of them will flower in autumn. Tuberoses are now planted 

 in the rosary ; and these, with the perpetual-flowering roses, keep up a con- 

 tinual bloom in this part of the garden till October. The productions of the 

 flower-garden during this month are numerous and beautiful. The azaleas, 

 kalmias, rhododendrons, and some species of Andromeda, are now in full 

 bloom. The fragrance of the azaleas, together with that of a bed of pinks of 

 about thirty varieties, German stocks, honeysuckles, &c, quite perfumes the 

 garden. In this month we have also in bloom the beautiful Wistaria Con- 

 sequchia, Hovea Celsz, Sutherland^ frutescens, Arctotis aureola, Phlox ovata, 

 amce v na, and reptans ; Arthropodium paniculatum, Arnopogon Dalechampw, 

 Coronilla montana, Zupinus polyphyllus and polyphyllus albus ; O'robus 

 /athyroides, Cineraria cruenta and alba, ,4'ster alpinus, Lychnis fulgens, Po- 



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