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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
In sowing turnip or cabbage seed during the summer season, it is 
most essential to keep a sharp look-out for the turnip-fly. As 
prevention is better than cure, it is advisable to dust the seed-bed 
with soot occasionally until the plants are in the rough late. The 
soot must not be too fresh, and it should be applied when the plants 
are moist from either the dew or rain. 
GARDEN GUIDE FOR JUNE. 
Kitchen Gaeden. — Asparagus not to be cut after the loth, then 
to be cleaned over, and allowed to grow. Celery to be got into 
trenches as fast as the ground can be made ready by the removal of 
other crops. Take up each with a ball, and do not injure a single 
leaf. Hoe over those that are established in trenches, to break the 
surface that has been hardened by watering. The ground will be 
now, for the most part, covered, and everything in full growth. The 
hoe must never be idle ; weeds grow faster than the crops, and 
exhaust the soil rapidly, and, if allowed to seed, make the mischief 
worse. Next to keeping down weeds, the most important operation 
is that of watering. Plants, when first put out, should not be 
drenched to excess, or the chill will check them more than a drought 
would, and it is better to trust to moderate watering and shade 
combined than to keep the soil saturated about plants that have 
barely taken root. Cucumbers, gourds, tomatoes, and capsicums 
may be put out ; the soil should be rich ; and, for tomatoes, a sunny 
aspect must be chosen. Manure-water should be freely used to all 
crops in full growth, and especially to strawberries, but there should 
be two or three waterings with plain water to one with liquid manure. 
Sow beet, early horn carrots, scarlet runners, and French beans, 
turnips, lettuces, radishes, cabbages, spinach, endive, cauliflower, 
and peas and beans. All salad plants should have a shady position, 
or they may run to seed. Dress asparagus and seakale beds with 
one pound of salt to every square yard, and give asparagus beds 
strong doses of liquid manure from horse-dung. 
Fehit Gaeden. — Apricots to be thinned, young shoots nailed 
in, caterpillars destroyed, and water-engine used smartly, if any sign 
of fly, which rarely troubles them. Search among raspberries every 
morning for snails, w'hich take shelter on the stakes and among the 
side-shoots. If large fruit are required, thin the blooms at once, 
and give liquid manure. Stone-fruits look well this season, aud 
no blight yet ; but it may come suddenly, and must be prepared 
for. Disbud and nail in. Pot trees to have plenty of wmter, and, 
if weakly in their new growth, pretty strong liquid manure will be 
of material assistance. 
Flowee Gaeden.— French and other asters may now be turned 
out in the places where they are to bloom ; make the ground rich, 
and choose showery weather. If the place is infested wdth snails, 
plant a few small lettuces behind the back row, which may be pulled 
