JUNE. 



THE GARDENER, 



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no avarice, or economy, or limitation of garden soil, 

 induce you to sow or plant any other crop on your 

 beds or m your alleys. 



" I have seen a square of asparagus beds trampled 

 into a flag, or like a hard foot-path, by a lazy s^ardener 

 or his lazier labourer crossing the beds da}^ after day 

 to cut a crop of cauliflowers from the intermediate 

 alleys."* 



JUNE. 



Stove, Greenhouse, Sfc. — Keep a high temperature 

 for the ripening grapes — thin the later ones — ventilate 

 — and guard against the attacks of the red spider. This 

 is a good time for repairing the houses and painting 

 the sashes, &c. as the plants can bear more exposure 

 to the open air now than at other periods of the year— 

 on an average of seasons. Graft Camellias, Rhodo- 

 dendrons, Azaleas, &c. Give as much room as you 

 can to the plants, \vhich should be turned regularly 

 to and from the light, if you wish to preserve their 

 uniformity of growth on all sides ; but in show 

 specimens, it is important that the side to be exposed 

 to vie^v should always front the light : do not sufier 

 more than a few of the choice old specimens to ripen 

 their seeds, at the expense of their vigour. Put out 

 in the open ground at least some Fuchsias on Mr. 

 Wood's plan,f in peat mould, in order that they may 

 grow freely, which will enable them to furnish nume- 

 rous cuttings, and render their subsequent bloom finer. 

 Treat the inferior kinds of the Pelargonium in the 

 same manner, removing the old plants from their pots 

 to the open ground until the commencement of autumn, 

 when they should be taken up and repotted for forcing 

 in the spring following. Take cuttings from the old 



• Kitchen Garden. By Martin Doyle, 

 t See Gardeners' Chronicle, June 18 44. 



