A CALENDAR 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — ^Cut down the Globe Artichokes 

 of which the heads have already been used, and those (if any) which 

 you have selected for making Chards should be kept well suppUed 

 with water. 



Flower Garden. — Now is a good time for the main sowing of 

 annuals. Prepare a seed-bed to-day, choosing a position not ex- 

 posed to the fuU glare of the sun and pulverizing the soil thoroughly 

 with a rake. Sow in drills rather than broadcast. 



AUGUST 13 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Continue the work begun yesterday 

 on the frames now out of use, ia order that they may be ready when 

 wanted. Look out for insect pests and destroy them. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — If you care for Com Salad (otherwise 

 Lamb's Lettuce), make a sowing to-day. It is valuable for use in 

 early spring. 



Flower Garden. — ^Make a sowing to-day of Calandrinia on the 

 bed prepared yesterday. Both the grandiflora and the umbellata 

 are useful, the latter being a trailing plant. Sow also two or three 

 varieties of Calendula — ^the double-flowered officinalis is excellent. 



AUGUST 14 



Greenhouse and Frames. — Continue and complete the work of 

 the last two days on the frames. See that the glass is clean. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — Make a sowing of Lettuce seed of 

 some hardy kind (Winter White Cos is good) that wiU stand the 

 winter. 



Flower Garden. — Continue the work of sowing annuals — say, 

 the dwarf CaLiopsis, an annual of compact habit and abundant 

 bloom of several colours, and also some of the double-flowered 

 Clarkias. 



AUGUST 15 



Greenhouse and Frames. — ^See to the Cacti cuttings recentiy 

 made, and if they are sufficientiy dry, insert them singly in small 

 pots filled with sandy soil mixed with a httie old mortar. Very 

 httie water should be given them until they are rooted. 



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