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A STROLL THROUGH THE GARDEN JULY. 
but besides the one that has room weighing 
more than all the others, the small ones are 
useless. The turnips are not much larger 
than turnip-radishes, and the onions are like 
those for pickling, not for storing. This 
shows you the necessity of giving plenty of 
room, better than if I had talked to you on 
the subject for hours. 
The flower-garden is pretty full of bloom ; 
here are beds of pansies with the plants as 
small as those that were coming into flower in 
April ; they were cuttings a few weeks ago, 
struck in the ground under a hand-glass in the 
shade, and when rooted, planted out as you 
see. This is the only way to continue a suc- 
cession of flowers, all the spring, summer, 
and autumn ; small side-shoots stripped off 
the old plants root freely. The carnations 
and picotees are flowering beautifully under 
the same awning that protected the tulips, the 
earlier gaudy occupants. The hyacinth bed is 
similarly tenanted ; and the effect of these 
July beauties under a cool canvass roof is very 
good. These grassy shoots round the bottom 
of the plant will be made to strike root by 
stripping the leaves off the lower ends, making 
a notch in the stem, and pegging that part 
under the soil ; about October they will have 
struck root, will be cut off from the old plants, 
and potted, two in a pot, as you saw them in 
the frames last winter. Take notice of the 
summer-roses ; one-half the trees are going 
out of flower, and the other half are bursting 
their buds ; this is merely the effect of prun- 
ing at two different seasons. Pinks, ranun- 
culuses, and anemones, have gone by ; the 
shoots at the bottom of the pinks, like so 
much grass, have been stripped off, and all 
the pieces put under a hand-glass to strike ; 
by-and-by they will be planted out in beds, 
similar to what these have been. 
This is the season for budding roses, and 
we will just see the man do one, because it is 
a pleasing operation, and repays us for the 
trouble, if trouble it can be called. Observe 
he shaves off a thin slice of bark from a rose- 
tree, and takes with it a leaf. Now at the base 
of this leaf is the bud. He now runs bis 
knife an inch down the bai-k of another rose- 
plant, so as just to cut through the bark to 
the hard wood, and makes a cross-cut of the 
same depth ; with a thin piece of ivory on 
the handle of his knife he raises the bark from 
the wood, and loosens it so that he can tuck 
in the bit of bark he shaved from the other 
rose-ti'ee, and he brings the leaf just to the 
part where his cuts crossed each other. A 
slight tie with a piece of matting to keep 
down the bark completes the operation. This 
is done with other trees as well as rose-trees ; 
the bud that is inserted grows the same as if 
it were left on its own tree, and none but that 
bud will be allowed to grow. The rose-plant 
on which,, it was budded is only a wild brier, 
and so are all those that he is budding ; it 
is the way they make a great many trees of 
one kind. 
The annuals and perennials, you observe, 
are in flower all over the ground ; and pray 
notice what a show the different kinds of 
lupines make ; those with such beautiful 
symmetrical spikes of white, light blue, and 
dark flowers, are the Lupinus polyphyllns, 
the best of all the perennial species. Here 
are twenty different-coloured stocks ; these 
are German, or rather from German seeds. 
The Germans are much more particular in 
their seed-saving than the English, and 
therefore imported seed is often far preferable 
to any saved in this country.- All these strange 
slaty and leady colours look very rich among 
the more brilliant scarlets, and crimsons, and 
the delicate whites, because there is a pretty 
contrast. 
The dahlias are beginning to bloom, but 
the flowers are very imperfect at present, and 
will not be otherwise until the plant comes to 
its full regular growth. There is not, in fact, 
strength enough yet to give the flowers the 
nourishment they require. There are some 
very handsome balsams in the border, where 
they form bright and pretty objects, but do 
not last a long while in good order. Many 
of the autumn-flowering annuals are planted 
out, and coming rapidly forward ; the china- 
asters, French marigolds, late stocks, and 
mignonette will soon be showing their flowers. 
Here are a great number of the plants from 
the greenhouse, placed out for their summer's 
airing, and to make their growth ; they are 
too much exposed to the sun, but they will 
only require the more attention to watering, 
and their foliage will not be so good a colour 
for it. There is no other convenience. I per- 
ceive, these are some of the best things here ; 
they are more in the shade. 
The hothouse does not seem to afford so 
great a contrast in respect to temperature as 
it did in the winter ; it does not seem so hot, 
but it is in reality some degrees warmer than 
when we visited it in the frost, though at that 
time it appeared almost insupportable. Some 
of the subjects that I pointed out growing on 
logs of wood, — I mean the orchideous plants, 
— are showing forth their bloom. The beauti- 
ful butterfly plant seems to be always in 
flower ; those wiry stems which so abound 
must not be taken off, for they every now 
and then send forth a flower when least ex- 
pected ; and even those old ones will flower at 
every joint. Some of the grapes and pine- 
apples have been cut, but there is a succession 
to follow^ 
The conservatory seems to have got all the 
