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ROSE GARDEN. 
during tin's month are sure to come in useful, to 
follow others previously sown. 
Half- hardy Bedding Plants. — These 
should now be planted out without hesitation. 
They ought to be finally inured to the open 
air previously to this operation. 
Green-house Plants. — Any of these which 
are removed to the pits, should get abund- 
ance of air night and day ; and they must 
have regular supplies of water. Pot any that 
may require it. Give them as much room 
as possible, that they may not grow weakly 
or drawn. 
Pinhs. — The early kinds of pinks for forc- 
ing, such as Anna Boleyn, Early May, &c, 
and the forcing Carnations and Cloves, should 
be propagated extensively, from pipings 
planted in the ordinary way. When they 
are rooted, plant them out in good ground for 
the season, and take them up carefully and 
pot them, in the autumn. 
Hydrangeas. — Shift the young plants raised 
from the tops of the shoots, for blooming in a 
dwarf state next year ; five-inch pots will be 
large enough : water them freely, and set 
them where they will get all the sun, in order 
to plump up and ripen their terminal buds, 
without pushing at all to growth. 
Seedlings. — Pot off seedling plants singly 
into small pots, and as they grow shift them 
into larger ones according to their nature. 
Propagation. — Propagate by cuttings any 
kind of green-house plant, which it is desir- 
able to increase. If any plants of particular 
kinds of bedding plants are likely to be wanted 
towards the end of the season, for filling out 
any of the beds after the annuals have past 
blooming, they had better be prepared in 
readiness. Cuttings of such plants rooted 
now, will have made strong plants by the 
period referred to. As the object in using 
them will be to produce immediate effect, 
they will repay any such pains taken with 
them, as repotting, &c, in order to advance 
them. 
"WINDOW GARDENING. 
When the windows and balconies are filled 
with a selection of plants, according to taste, 
and these are potted into moderately large 
pots, sufficient to last them through the grow- 
ing season ; they will require little other 
attention besides watering, which must be 
very regularly and constantly done. Plants 
in this situation, from the position they oc- 
cupy, are extremely liable to suffer from 
drought, if there is the least neglect in ad- 
ministering their supply of water. This 
applies equally to all the kinds of plants culti- 
vated in these situations. In order to protect 
the roots of the plants from injury, in conse- 
quence of the powerful rays of the sun 
striking directly on the sides of the pots, often 
very thin, and forming a mere shell around 
the roots, it is advantageous to set the pots 
containing the plants within others just 
large enough to contain them : the double sides 
of the pots, together with the small open 
cavity all around between the two, prevent 
the evil to a very great extent ; and it may 
be still further prevented by choosing the ex- 
terior pot still larger, and filling the cavity 
between the two with moss, which is to be 
kept damped. If this plan is objected to, it 
would perhaps be possible to form a bed of 
moss on the window-ledge in which the pots 
could be plunged, the moss being kept damp. 
A very pretty selection for a window consists 
of a scarlet Pelargonium, a yellow shrubby 
Calceolaria, and one of the deep- coloured 
small blue Lobelias : a globe Fuchsia is also 
a beautiful plant for the situation. It is a 
very prevailing evil to set such plants too 
thick ; they should never touch. 
ROSE GARDEN. 
Roses are now advancing for bloom, and 
many of them, more particularly the per- 
petuals, come up with buds very close together. 
Some varieties have a crown bloom, and two 
side ones, which are so close to it, that the 
middle, or principal one, cannot flower pro- 
perly, because the side buds literally press it 
out of form. These side ones should be taken 
off while quite small ; and in all other cases, 
wherever they are too close, the lesser buds, that 
actually have not room to bloom well, should 
be removed, to make way for them. If, how- 
ever, the rose-tree is to stand for the sake of 
its quantity of flowers, it is the best way to 
cast out the centre one, and make room for 
the two. All this month the treatment of 
last month should be repeated, and in all par-, 
ticulars industriously followed up throughout. 
You should also go into Rose gardens and 
make memoranda of the sorts you wish to 
buy, and mark your plants, because next 
month you may go and cut off some of the 
shoots to bud with ; but, to enable you to do 
this, you must pay for them when you mark 
them, otherwise they are not your property, 
and you cannot claim them unless the nursery- 
man pleases to consider them bought and 
booked. The budding, in some seasons, may 
be done this month, but Jul}'', and even towards 
the end of it, is more likely to be the proper 
season : this, however, is determined by the 
state of the stock. If, on cutting a slit in the 
bark, you can lift each side freely from the 
wood, the stock is ready to receive the buds, 
and the operation is simple. You, with a very 
sharp knife, cut a slit in the bark an inch long 
on the upper side of a branch — in the strongest 
branch near the top of the stock — and within 
