A YEAR'S GARDENING 



Flower Garden. — ^Make a sowing to-day of Hollyhock seed in the 

 open border and by the autumn the seedlings should be sufficiently 

 advanced to be transferred to a frame for the winter. Obtain the 

 best and cleanest seed, for the Hollyhock fungus [Puccinia malva- 

 cearum) is a virulent pest. 



JULY 28 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Continue to make cuttings of such 

 greenhouse plants and shrubs as you desire to propagate. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Devote the remaining days of this 

 month to exhaustive and thorough weeding (especially S the weather 

 be dry), to the removal of all crops which are past bearing, and to 

 the preparation of the ground, thus made vacant, for future crops. 



Flower Garden. — Look to the Dahlias and set traps for the ear- 

 wigs. A small flower-pot, half-fiUed with dry moss and set upside 

 down on a stake, is effective if cleared out daUy. 



JULY 29 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Continue, and if possible complete, 

 the work of making summer cuttings from greenhouse plants. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Continue the work of weeding, 

 clearing and preparing the ground for new crops. 



Flower Garden. — Give the Dahlias a liberal watering of weak 

 liquid manure and repeat the dose two or three times at intervals of 

 a few days. 



JULY 30 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Make cuttings of any choice Pansies, 

 selecting young shoots from the root of the plant, and place them in 

 the frame now devoted to cuttings. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Continue the work of weeding, 

 clearing and preparing the ground for new crops. 



Flower Garden. — Make a sowing in a moist soil and in a shady 

 situation of some varieties of Mimulus (including Musk, Mimulus 

 moschatus) for flowering in the following spring. 



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