A CALENDAR 



Flower Garden. — Prepare a suitable bed for, and make a sowing 

 of, perennial Delphiniums. 



MAY II 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Syringe the Roses to-day with a weak 

 solution of insecticide, repeating the operation at intervals, as a 

 means of warding off insect pests. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Give a few doses of liquid manure 

 at intervals to the Fruit bushes on which the fruit is beginning to 

 set, so as to assist its development. 



Flower Garden. — Give the Roses a watering of liquid manure 

 and repeat the application two or three times at intervals of a few 

 days. Look carefully for any curled leaves and promptly remove 

 the grub which wiU be found therein. 



MAY 12 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Give a dusting of sulphur to any Roses 

 which show a tendency to curled leaves, and water them freely with 

 guano water. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Thin out the Asparagus in the 

 seed-bed and protect the bearing-bed with new-mown grass. Some 

 Asparagus should now be ready; cut carefully those sticks which 

 are ripe. Make a new sowing, if required. 



Flower Garden. — Look to any choice Tulips which may be coming 

 into bloom and shade them judiciously, watering round the beds to 

 keep the plants cool and prolong their blooming. 



MAY 13 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Make some cuttings of Roses and put 

 them into a very sandy soil, covering them with a bell-glass and 

 sprinkling them every morning. For the cuttings select those 

 shoots which have flowered. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Sow Broad Beans for a late crop. 

 Examine those in flower for black-fly and top them wherever the fly 

 is present. 



Flower Garden. — If the planting of Violets was not done in the 

 autmnn, a bed of them may now be made. A shady situation and a 

 well-manured soU should be chosen. 



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