July,] 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



911 



JULY. 



PLANTING EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Towards the end of this month, if the weather should be 

 showery, evergreens may be successfully removed ; box edgings 

 laid and clipped, and evergreen hedges of all kinds cut. These 

 hedges are not so generally planted now as formerly, when a 

 formal and stiff style of gardening was in vogue, and in which 

 they formed a prominent feature. As fences, or screens for 

 shelter, they have their uses ; and if planted in irregular lines, 

 and not clipped, they may be admissible to a certain extent, 

 and will answer many of the uses of dense shrubberies, without 

 taking so many trees in their formation, or without occupying 

 so much ground. 



TAKING UP BULBOUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 



As the beds of bulbous-rooted plants have done flowering, 

 let them be taken up, as already directed, and stored by till 

 their season of planting. 



PROPAGATING CARNATIONS AND PINKS. 



Continue to lay and pipe carnations and pinks, which will, 

 by the beginning of this month, be in good order. (For full 

 directions, see last month.) 



CARE OF CARNATIONS AND PINKS COMING INTO FLOWER. 



The more choice carnations, in pots or in prepared beds, 

 should now be attended to. Those in pots should be removed 

 to the green-house and placed in a shaded situation, where 

 they will expand their blossoms without injury ; and where 

 there is a stage-frame on which to place these plants, it should 

 now be filled with them. Previously to taking them either 

 into the green-house or stage-frame, the pots should be cleaned 



