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THE GARDENER. 



[jUNE. 



plants now, which if well managed will blow this time 

 twelvemonth. Fumigate with tobacco to destroy 

 insects. 



Frames and Pits. — Prepare to make a large plan- 

 tation of your choice dwarf and young plants in these 

 useful structures, turned out of the pots for two or 

 three months in suitable composts. One who has not 

 seen the good effects of this plan can hardly conceive 

 the improvement it makes in the plants, particularly 

 in Heaths, Epacrises, and other dehcate plants, which 

 are difficult to manage in dry hot seasons under the 

 ordinary pot culture.* Attend to previous directions 

 respecting melons and cucumbers. 



Flo-iver Garden. — Take up the bulbs of Tulips, 

 &c. that are out of blow and whose leaves have be- 

 come yellowish, and lay them in a shaded place until 

 they are dry enough to have their outer skins taken off, 

 and to be packed in paper bags. Keep a hand-glass 

 over those which you design for seed. Shade Ranun- 

 culuses and Auriculas. Propagate Pansies by slips 

 or cuttings, and part Polyanthuses in showery weather, 

 and beware of the green-fly, which is a great enemy 

 to the Auricula in particular, whose heart it feeds 

 upon. Cut down the stems of Auriculas and Poly- 

 anthuses, if not wanted to bear seed. Tie up Carna- 

 tions as they require it with soft thread, which should 

 not be so tightly bound as to prevent the free growth 

 of the stem : pinch laterals and disbud. Stake Dah- 

 lias — plant slips of Double Wall-flowers — perform 

 various matters of routine which it is needless to re- 

 capitulate. 



Fruit and Kitchen Garden. — Give the last thin- 

 ning to the fruit on the peach-trees, &c., and remove 

 all superfluous young shoots, nailing those which you 

 retain. Clear gooseberry, currant, and raspberry trees 



* Gardeners' Chron. June 22, 184^ 



