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CALENDAR OF GARDEN WORK. 



June sowing, for collards. Broccoli must be planted for 

 spring, and well and frequently watered. Search for and 

 destroy insects, particularly caterpillars. 



%— Fruit, 



Late-bearing strawberries should be watered, and 

 towards the middle or end of the month, the larger 

 offsets may be planted out, if not before pricked out and 

 nursed ; bud-grafting, w^hen the bark rises well, may be 

 performed. To preserve the fruit of gooseberries and 

 strawberries, the later sorts should be shaded with mats. 



'^.—Flowers. 



Sow auricula and polyanthus seed in pots, to be kept 

 protected in winter. The roots of auriculas may now be 

 divided, as also may those of sweet violets, the former to 

 be potted into small pots, and the latter to be planted 

 where desired. Cuttings of geraniums, and other tender 

 plants, which have struck root, should now be placed 

 singly into small pots, to be kept through the winter 

 season in the house. Take up anemone roots. 



IX.— SEPTEMBER. 

 Though the weather is usually fine this month, it be- 

 comes sensibly colder ; and more so about sun-rise and 

 in the day-time than £it night. Watering will seldom now 

 be necessary, except with plants in pots. 



1. — Kitchen Qarden, 

 Endive and lettuce may be planted out on beds sloping 

 to the south-west, and trenched round to drain off water. 

 Cabbage for collards in November, Savoys, and German 

 greens, may be planted out early in the month, though 

 it becomes rather late, as well as for sowing lettuce; but 

 radishes, mustard, and cress, may be sown every fort- 

 night. Hoe and clear the ground about turnips, and prick 

 out the August-sown cabbage-plants early in the month, 

 to be afterwards planted out in October. 



2. — Fruits. 



In the first and second week, plant strawberries, taking 

 up and throwing away the old stools, whether mule or 

 barren, and those which have twice borne fruit; the beds 



