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whole contents of the garden watched, because nearly the 

 whole contents are advancing at once. "Water still, if no 

 summer showers have fallen. Thin out annuals where 

 the j come up too thick. Attend daily to your plants in 

 vases ; neglect now is almost irremediable. Hope to live 

 to see next winter and spring, and provide for them by 

 striking cuttings of roses, wallflowers, choice stocks, and 

 whatever else is likely to be useful. The very trimmings 

 and prunings may be economized in this way. Watch 

 your beds of seedling anemones. Lose no time in strik- 

 ing chrysanthemums for this autumn's bloom. Cuttings 

 of the young shoots of pansies, rooted under a hand- 

 glass, will make nice little plants by the autumn. Sow 

 Brompton Stocks, Sweet Williams, Foxgloves, Canter- 

 bury Bells, and other biennials which do not blow their 

 first season. Peg down verbenas as they grow and spread. 

 Lay bean-stalk traps for earwigs. Decide what seeds 

 you will save, marking the stems of the flowers approved 

 by tying a bit of coloured worsted round them. 



JULY. 



Take up hyacinths and other spring-flowering bulbs 

 and tubers whose leaves are completely withered. After 

 a soaking shower, bud roses ; perform the operation as 

 lightly and as quickly as you can. If you could blow 

 the bud in — presto ! — like a conjurer, you would succeed 

 in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand. 

 Tou may shade the bud afterwards by a laurel-leaf, if the 

 sun comes out scorching. Save all sorts of seeds ; raise 

 all sorts of cuttings : with many of them, it is " now or 

 never." Still carefully tend your seedling anemones. 

 Tou may take up old-established roots, as directed, if the 

 leaves are quite withered, to be planted again as soon as 

 you can. Tie the rising dahlias to their stakes; leave 

 only a single stem, if they send up more than one; and 

 cut out the bottom laterals and irregular shoots. The 

 first two or three flowers are seldom good for anything ; 

 it is as well to cut them out while still in the bud, that 



