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shallow drills about six or eight feet apart, dropping the seeds about three 

 or four inches apart in the drills, which are slightly watered if the ground 

 is dry, if the ground is hot, the seeds vegetate and come up in a few 

 days j after they get a rough leaf-, they are thinned by hoeing them out to 

 a foot or fifteen inches apart, and earthed with a hoe as they grow, and 

 soon cover the ground j excellent crops are sometimes had from those 

 sown even late in June, while those of May have been stunted and can- 

 kered : they seldom succeed by transplanting to the open air. Sow 

 black Spanish radishes for autumn and winter use, other radishes if 

 wanted, endive, principal sowing late in the month. Lettuces, the hardy 

 cosses are now the best to sow, celery for late turnips, peas, cardoons. 

 Plant cucumbers and gourds, pumpkins, nasturtiums, and in general 

 similar articles not planted out last month, leeks, celery, cauliflowers, 

 brocoli, borecole, and greencole, savoys, and other articles of autumn 

 and winter use, seedling and struck slips of herbs, water them when 

 wanted, hoe, thin out, and clean all from weeds of the spring-sown crops j 

 earth beans and peas, potatoes, kidney-beans, top beans as they blossom, 

 slipping of herbs will still succeed, tie up lettuces to blanch for use. 

 stick pe^is, leave off cutting asparagus about the twenty-fourth, keep the 

 hoe well employed, save some of the best and earliest cauliflowers for 

 seed, cut mint and other herbs for drying : a general rule for cutting 

 herbs for drying is, to cut them when in full flower. 



Fruit Garden. — We have little labour here now, except in the 

 prospect of gathering the crop as it comes in 3 tie up and secure young 

 grafted trees, trimming the stocks of the wild wood 5 summer prune 

 and nail wall trees. Budding may be begun at the close of the month. 

 Clip hedges, net cherries. 



Flower Gardex. — General work much the same as last month : tie 

 tall-growing flowers up to sticks ; sow Brompton, Twickenham, and giant 

 stocks to flower next spring, lay roses, evergreens, slip myrtles to strike, 

 pipe and lay pinks and carnations, tender annuals in borders, plant 

 out in nursery-beds seedling pinks, carnations and pickatees (sown on 

 slight heat in April), auriculas and polyanthuses in shady places. 



Forcing Ground. — Finish thinning grapes in grapery, keep the vines 

 neatly trimmed and tied, discontinue fires, unless in cold or damp 

 weather, still attend to cucumbers and melons, give air and water 

 freely, attend to the succession crops, let the vines of the cucumbers, 

 planted under hand-glasses, run out from beneath, by tilting the 

 glasses, prune them occasionally. 



Green-House. — Give air and water as wanted. Those plants that 

 are out of the house must be attended to, watered when necessary, 

 trimmed and tied ; if excessive rain falls for days together, and you 



