80' 



CALENDAR OF GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR JULY. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 



MELANTHACEiE. 



Asagrjea Officinalis. Lindl. Spike-flowered Asagrgea. Bot. Reg. S. t. 33. 

 This is a pretty plant, bearing a spike of small white flowers about six inches 

 long. 



It is bulbous and half hardy, and was sent to the London Horticultural Society 

 from Mexico by their collector in that country. It grows in the neighbourhood 

 of Vera Cruz, where it has received the name of Sabadilla. Bot. Reg. 



LILIACEjE. 



Bessera Elegans. Lindl. Elegant Bessera. Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 34. This is 

 a charming, indeed a beautiful plant, bearing an umbel of about twelve pendulous 

 orange-red flowers, and having the anthers green. It is a native of Mexico, and 

 was found by Karwinsky at Saltepee ; but it was first sent to this country by her 

 Majesty's Consul, John Parkinson, Esq. The plant from which the drawing was 

 taken for the Botanical Register, is in the collection of John Rogers, Esq., jun,, 

 of Sevenoaks. This, and another species, are all that are at present known of 

 the genus. 



As yet little is known of its habits or cultivation. Bot. Reg. 



CALENDAR, OF GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR JULY. 



A few of the more delicate free-flowering sorts of greenhouse plants that would 

 not bear the cold of last month may now be planted out into the borders in the 

 beginning of this month ; and even some may be brought from the stove. They 

 will grow rapidly, and if the selection is judiciously made of free- flowering kinds, 

 most of them will flower much finer than in pots. Secure those turned out last 

 month with stakes, where they require that support. 



Secure Dahlias well to their stakes from time to time. 



Make a general shifting of the stove and greenhouse plants, and cut them into 

 form as they have done flowering. 



Strike Pinks by pipings, and towards the end of the month layer Carnations. 

 Sow biennials for flowering next season. 



Plant fresh beds of Pansies ; cut in those that have done flowering, and also 

 put in cuttings to keep up a succession of young plants. 



Look over the more rare kinds of herbaceous plants, either dividing or putting 

 in cuttings of those which are in danger of being lost from getting too old and 

 worn out, and which could not be divided in Spring. 



Many of the more rare Alpine plants may also be divided and re-potted after 

 they have done flowering. 



Annuals may still be sown for flowering late in the Autumn. 



It is now a good time for laying the young wood of Clematises and other plants 

 that root best from the young wood. 



