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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
eun ; but where they cannot strike their roots into the ground here they must 
grow until the middle of September, but must never be neglected. Watering 
■will be essential, for if permitted to want moisture they will lose their foliage at 
the bottom. They will, many of them, flower at twelve inches high. The old 
roots may be planted in the ground to grow for young stock, and flower if they 
will in the borders. 
Annuals, sown late, must be thinned if too thick, and the plants pulled 
out may be planted anywhere. In mild autumns these late sown and late 
planted annuals prolong the beauties of the garden. 
Make Strawberry-beds of the strongest runners, but to anticipate this the 
rnnners may be pegged down in June, in pots placed on the old beds, and they 
will have struck root sufficiently to turn out in the new beds, or to force in the 
pots. 
Stone Fruit Trees may now be budded in the same way as roses, except 
that it is well to cut down the stocks to within a few inches of the ground, and 
bud these, so that for standards, the new variety forms the trunk. Proper sticks 
may be had at the nurseries. 
Trained Fruit Trees should have useless roots removed, and such shoots 
taken back as are required to throw out laterals, or are wanted for bearing. 
Maiden fruit trees making their first shoots should be topped in early growth 
and they will form side branches strong enough to save a year in the training. 
Standards must of course be allowed to run up until they arrive at the length 
required for the trunk. 
Vines require the same continued management as before directed. 
All fruit bushes and trees should have their useless spindling growth cut 
out, currant and gooseberry trees especially, whose fruit ought to be thinned, so 
as to give the remainder the whole nourishment of the tree. 
Scarlet Beans. — Put sticks to them, or give them some other means of 
support. 
Potatoes. — Earth up well to cover the tubers, and give them room to 
swell. 
Lettuce, Radish (the turnip kind), and Salads. — Continue to sow enough 
to meet the consumption. 
Cucumbers. — T rain the shoots along the surface so as to be out of each 
other’s way, and give the fruit room, and water must be administered. 
Plant a main crop of celery, use the strongest plants, dig trenches a foot to a 
foot and a half wide and a foot deep, four feet apart from centre to centre ; put 
good three inches thick of rotten dung in the bottom, and fork it six inches into 
soil, well mixing it as you proceed ; level, and plant nine inches apart down the 
centre of the trench, these to be earthed up as the plants advance. 
Winter Greens, Brocoli, Savoys, Borecole, Brussels Sprouts, Red Cabbage, 
Scotch Kale, etc., should be planted after dripping weather ; a rainy season saves 
enormous labour. Sow Winter Spinach. 
Beans. — Top those in flower, and earth up others. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Guano Water. — B. JB., Longton . — Half a pint of guano dissolved in six or 
eight gallons of water, and applied as required, will be found of service to many 
kinds of flowers ; but no fixed rule of application can be given, for what suits one 
kind of plant might kill another. As to vegetables which are wanted to grow 
quickly, you can hardly go wrong with them. Of course, they will take stronger 
doses than flowers. 
Clubbing.— -Subscriber. — The disease called clubbing originates in the soil ; 
but the grub which causes it sometimes attacks the plants while in the seed-bed. 
Walks — Amateur, Devizes . — Excellent walks may be made by mixing well- 
washed gravel, lime, and hot gas tar, in such proportions as will form a black 
mortar. If laid four inches thick, it will last a very loDg time, always be dry, 
and no weeds will grow on it. If thicker, and on a layer of chalk or gravel, so 
much the better. 
