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it is too thick and crowded, shorten such shoots as 

 have flowered to a good fresh strong eye, or bud, 

 accompanied with a healthy leaf. All wood that 

 grows after this pruning, will ripen perfectly, and 

 produce large flowers the ensuing year* 



If dry warm weather, it may be necessary to water 

 such flowering shrubs and roses as were planted in the 

 spring ; and if Dahlia plants could be watered two or 

 three times a week, it would be beneficial to their 

 growth. Give regular syringings or sprinklings from 

 the rose of a watering-pot, to shrubby plants in ge- 

 neral, but particularly to Camellias, Orange and 

 Lemon trees, &c, in order to keep them in a healthy 

 state. 



Such bulbous roots in pots, whose foliage may have 

 withered, should be kept dry until the period of re- 

 germinating, 44 and 74 ; others may be taken up as 

 soon as ripe, after which the offsets may be parted 

 off, and both these and the parent bulbs dried for 

 planting in Autumn, 42. 



The Flower Garden should be kept weeded and 

 watered, and the seeds gathered as they ripen ; apply 

 neat rods to the tall-growing and running kinds of 

 plants. Nip off curled and dead leaves, and destroy 

 insects. 



Orange and Lemon trees may be budded any time 

 this month, and those which were headed down in the 

 spring, should be examined, and all superfluous shoots 

 must be pruned off with a sharp knife, leaving only 

 the strongest ; the tops of which should be pruned 

 off to promote their branching. Myrtles, Oleanders, 

 and such other plants as may have been headed down 

 in May, will need similar treatment. 



AUGUST. 



Greenhouse plants will need particular attention 

 this month. They should be watered every evening 

 in dry weather, and as soon as the extreme heat of 



