58 THE PHILADELPHIA FLORIST. [ JuNE 



U^ per season, never allow the young plant to stop growing, until it at-r©J 



P tains its desired size and shape, then check it by withholding water, W 



(not too much), — a tendency to produce flowers will then be induced. 



Fruit Houses — forcing has been attended to at several places ; 

 Strawberries ripe ; set the plants, from which fruit has been gathered, 

 to rest at leisure ; plant them in good, richly manured soil, to recruit 

 them. Cherries are ripe in a few places ; Nectarines far advanced, 

 and fruit well set — out-door strawberries look well (and in fact all 

 out-door fruits). Grapes are in fine condition, as the atmosphere 

 has been clear and not very changeable ; attend diligently to stopping 

 of shoots, they must be stopped judiciously, or a w^aste of the energy 

 of the plant takes place, see Mr. Sanders Diary — air those in flower 

 well, to scatter the pollen; no water while in flower from the syringe, 

 it wets the yellow dust and hinders impregnation; watch all well, and 

 attentively. 



Vegetables. — Tomatoes are in market; Peas from the south and 

 from under cover; any quantity of Asparagus, do not let it be cut too 

 close, add some manure and salt after cutting; salt in June and manure in 

 fall. Beans are getting forward ; Cantelopes planted out as well as 

 all other tender crops ; sow in regular succession ; tie up Tomatoes 

 or confine them with stakes, like trellis work. 



Potatoes are up; we saw r a fine specimen of mercers, yesterday. 



Salading is in abundance ; spinach out of repute ; sow, however, in 

 succession to fill the pot, as the Irishman says, " fill up, fill up, if it 

 should be only saw-dust;" take peas in good season, you cannot af- 

 terwards; you may try, but you will fail ; Lima Beans ; take care of 

 Limas, they create quite a turor when on the table. Try the New 

 Zealand Spinach, Black Turtle Bean, Walcheren Cauliflower, 

 Hobsons Giant Rhubarb, Okra of course, mountain sprout, and 

 mountain Sweet Water-melon, Caubul Cantelope, Great Mammoth 

 Squash ; Bishops' Dwarf Pea, Prince Albert Do., Skirvings Im- 

 proved Ruta Bag a, for July or August sowing, Oabbages all sorts, 

 to be found in the seedsmens' catalogues, to be had at this office. 

 But we must close, by telling all our gardening friends, to work, rather 

 than read for two or three weeks to come. Allons! 



NATURL1STS' CALENDAR.— BOTANY. 



1 Anemone nemorosa, Wood Anemone, Woods, Penna. 



2 Arum triphyllum marshes and shady margins of creeks var atro- 

 rubens. 



3 Agrostis ; several species a grass, fields. 



4 Acer rubrum and others in flower, in April, scarlet or yellow 

 bloom — swamp maple (every where 1 # ) 



5 Actcea rubra, red Baneberry — Woods. 



6 Aster or Erigeron, Woods, Penna. 



7 Dicentra cucullaria, (Cultivated R. Kelv.) — Dutchmans Breeches 

 — Woods, not frequent. 



8 Cardamine pratensis, marshes, Penna. cuckoo flower or meadow 

 cress. 



9 Draba verna, common Whitlow Grass, (in pod May,) (plenty.) 

 \ 10 Geranium maculatum, woods, Penna. 

 9o 11 Orchis spectabilis, (Jersey showy orchis.) 

 fjv 12 Physurus pictus, woods, Penna. 



