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CALENDAR OF GARDEN WORK. 



particularly, require an abundant supply of water ; the 

 flower stems of the alpine sort should be cut ofiP. Insects 

 and slugs must be carefully destroyed as already directed. 



S.—Floivers. 



Tall flowers should be neatly supported with stakes to 

 prevent their being broken. Ranunculuses in flower should 

 be shaded. Carnations should be top-dressed, and, when 

 coming into flower, should be shaded. Earwigs are now 

 the most troublesome insects^ and are readily entrapped 

 in lobsters' claws stuck upon sticks, or in hollow canes. 

 Bulbs which have ceased flowering and have their leaves 

 faded, should now be taken up. Annuals may be thinned 

 out, and the thinnings transplanted' into vacancies in the 

 borders. Hydrangeas, African lilies, and forget-me-nots, 

 in pots, require water twice a-day, 



VII.— JULY. 



The dry weather of June usually gives place, towards 

 the middle of the present month, to a good deal of rain, 

 which may, as in the East, be called the latter rain." 

 Hand-watering, of course, is in such circumstances no 

 longer necessary in the open ground, though plants in 

 pots, owing to the heat of the weather drying up their 

 moisture quickly, require to be freely watered, 



1. — Kitchen Garden. 

 When the early potatoes come ofi*, sow turnips in the 

 ground, treading in the seed slightly with the feet. Or, 

 plant in trenches in this ground some rows of celery and 

 leeks, and also Savoys, German greens, and Yanack cab- 

 bages, for collards, to come in early in winter. Scarlet- 

 runners and French beans may still be sown in the two 

 first weeks for a late crop ; and early York, Yanack sugar- 

 loaf, and dwarf cabbages in the first and in the last week 

 to be planted out before winter or early in the spring ; 

 also endive, turnip-radishes, lettuces, and spinach for a 

 late autumnal crop. Take up potato-onions, and shallots, 

 and cut sweet herbs, when in flower, to dry in the shade 

 for winter. Prick out celery and the first crop of endive. 

 Grub up weeds to prevent them seeding. 



