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fear too much moisture, turn the pots sideways, set out what were 

 too tender to put out last month. Propagate as last month. 



JULY. 



Kitchen Garden.- — Sow kidney-beans, for the last crop, about the 

 twentieth, they seldom succeed if sown later ; early dwarf cabbages, a 

 principal sowing, to plant out in October, for the general crop for next 

 spring and summer's use may be made from the twenty- fifth to the thir- 

 ty-first, endive for autumn, peas and beans have still a little chance of suc- 

 cess 3 radishes, lettuces, only the more hardy sorts will now succeed ; 

 onions a few to pull green in the autumn for salads, it should be Lisbon 

 or Reading onion. Coleworts for a main crop for winter, early in the 

 month, turnips principal sowing of the year, for autumn and winter use, 

 chervil to stand the winter. Plant celery, endive, lettuces, cabbages, 

 leeks, savoys, brocoli, greencale, cauliflowers. Hoe and keep all clean 5 

 dry herbs, pull up, dry, and house, onions, garlick, shalots and the like 

 as the tops fade. Stick peas and scarlet-beans, blanch white beets, tie 

 up lettuces and endive for blanching, top beans, earth celery, gather 

 seeds. 



Fruit Garden. — Bud ; water, if dry, newly-planted fruit-trees j nail 

 and thin, and trim wall-fruit-trees, keep all in neat order. Head down 

 young espaliers j stop fruit-bearing shoots of vines 3 prune away shoots 

 and suckers from the stems of trees. Net morella and other cherries, 

 and currants. 



Flower Garden. — General work as last month. What was not done 

 then, must be done this ; repetition would be useless ; part auriculas and 

 polyanthus roots, gather seeds, dry and house them, mark every sort and 

 sample. Plant saffron crocus and other autumn bulbs. Sow mignonette 

 in pots to blow in shelter in the winter, likewise ten-week stock, both at 

 the end of the month, to make an earlier sowing as well, would give a 

 better chance. Clip box, also evergreen hedges. 



Forcing Ground. — The crop in the grapery will now be ripening or 

 ripe, keep the vines neatly trimmed ; give plenty of air to colour the 

 grapes ; a tire may be necessary in very damp weather to prevent in- 

 jury to the fruit. Successional graperies require the same treatment in 

 the different stages of their growth. Attend to your late cucumbers 

 and melons, of which, if properly managed, 5'ou v/ill have abundance. 



Green-House. — General treatment as last month. Geranium cuttin2:s 

 will now strike like weeds in the open ground, from which they are 

 easily potted. Strike heaths. This is the best month, particularly the 

 early part of it, to strike myrtles. The slips should be about two inches 



