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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
GAEDEN GUIDE FOE JULY. 
Kitciien Garden. — Where early crops are coming off, clear the 
ground and dig it over at once. Plant out Brussels sprouts, green 
collards, kale, savoys, cabbages, broccolis, etc. If the plants are 
crowded in the seed-bed, it is best to get them out at once. Have 
all ready, and in the evening put out as many rows as possible, and 
give a little water to every plant. This is better than waiting for 
rain, which may be so heavy as to render the ground unfit to be 
trodden on, and, if succeeded immediately by heat, the plants will 
flag as much as if put out in dry weather, whereas, being already in 
the ground, the smallest shower benefits them. Seed-beds for 
winter spinach should now be made up and well manured. Peas 
and kidney beans may be sown this month, for late supplies, and at 
this season it is as well to sow early as well as late sorts. Gather 
kidney beans close ; every pod left to ripen checks the productive 
power of the plant. Take up onions, shallots, and garlic, as they 
ripen, and store for winter. Give asparagus-beds plenty of liquid 
manure, and use the grass mowings from the lawn as mulchings, to 
prevent the soil from cracking. Earth up celery for early use, but 
the rows that are not forward must be kept open and well watered, 
as the plant grows very slowly after being earthed up, the object of 
the earthing being to blanch it only. Sow saladings for succession. 
Eruit Garden. — Put netting over currants, gooseberries, and 
cherries, to keep the birds from the fruit. To retard or keep 
hanging currants and gooseberries, cover with mats. Easpberries to 
have their suckers reduced to four or five to every stool ; those left 
will rise strong, and ripen their wood well ; but a forest of spray 
will be all weak alike, and at the winter pruning there will be a 
temptation to leave all, because for strength there will be little 
choice. Never dig between raspberries ; it causes them to throw 
their suckers a long way from the stools ; but surface manuring at 
this time of the year, and no disturbance of the earth, causes strong 
suckers to rise near home. Strawberries to be potted as soon as 
rooted, as they make roots faster in pots than in the open ground ; and 
should we have a chilly autumn, a few of the best of the plants can 
be kept under glass, to ripen their crowns. Lay a few more of the 
best runners in pots, cut away all weak runners, and supply water 
liberally to runners and old stools. As soon as rooted in pots, 
remove to a frame and place upon a bed of some moist material, 
where they will soon fill the pots with roots. Eemove weak run- 
ners, and peg down in pots or on the border a few more of the best 
for making new beds. 
Flower Garden. — Budding roses is the most important opera- 
tion this month. After heavy rains is the best time, as the sap 
then rises freely. The stocks should be vigorous, and if the 
weather continue dry, and if the sap flows slowly, a drenching of 
liquid manure or plain water, for two or three nights in succession, 
will prepare them, without waiting for rain. Cuttings of all kinds 
may now be struck out of doors; antirrhinums, phloxes, pentstemons. 
