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is sometimes advisable, to prevent a check, to gently 

 break the pot in the hole made and pick out the pieces 

 rather than turn the plant out. Those plants which 

 are intended for repotting should now be fit and ready 

 for plunging out of doors in their autumnal quarters 

 Many Roses will be in bloom by the end of the month 

 especially the Teas and summer Roses, and the first- 

 fruits, often the best and finest, will gladden our 

 eyes 



July. — In many districts this is, in average seasons, 

 the month of Roses, H.P.s being a little later than the 

 old-fashioned Roses of the poets. The last week in 

 June and the first fortnight in July are roughly the 

 * general bounds of " the season " for the metropolitan 

 latitude. Rose shows will be in full swing, and ex- 

 hibitors for a time will have enough to do in cutting 

 their blooms, and rushing about the country night and 

 day to the various shows. Mildew often gets a chance 

 now of establishing itself, and hoeing and aphides are 

 too frequently neglected. It is harvest time, and the 

 details of culture are naturally neglected for a while. 

 Still, even before the show-boxes are put away, budding 

 will have commenced with Tea buds on standard stocks, 

 as these stocks often suffer from a stagnation of sap in 

 August, and Tea buds, which cannot always be got in 

 sufficient quantity, will stand the winter better if they 

 be budded early. 



While the Roses are still at their best, it is advisable 

 that notes be made of the colours and good or bad 

 qualities of unfamiliar varieties, as even a good memory 

 may hold a somewhat unreliable picture of certain 

 flowers if they be not accurately judged in comparison 

 with others, and the results of observation committed to 

 writing at once. Now is the time to condemn certain 



