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GARDENING CALENDAR FOR JUNE. 
beds, also those planted out, if the weather is 
very dry. 
Celery. — Continue to prick out in a rich, 
warm, and shaded place, and water with weak 
liquid manure. Prepare and plant additional 
trenches, lifting and planting with a trowel. 
Broad trenches in which five or more rows 
can be planted are often formed where large 
quantities are required ; but it is never so 
good as when in single or double rows. 
Cress. — Sow twice this month in a shady 
situation ; or if exposed, give water^ and shade 
with a mat. 
Endive. — Sow for the permanent crop the 
middle of this month in an open and warm 
situation, and upon a rich and mellow soil ; 
the seed must be slightly raked in, and 
watered occasionally if dry weather prevails. 
Garlic. — If the early plantings are getting 
ripe, take up the roots, and have them care- 
fully dried in the sun before tying them in 
bunches for storing. 
Serbs of all kinds, as sage, savory, &c, 
must be thinned according to their respective 
heights and manner of growth ; most of them 
will also transplant if carefully managed and 
well watered. The best season for gathering 
them to dry, is just as they are coming into 
bloom. 
Kidney Beans. — Make successional plant- 
ings every three weeks, until August. Put 
stakes to the scarlet runners and other tall 
growers ; keep hoeing and cleaning them. 
Leeks can still be put in ; they require a 
very rich soil, and to be merely laid in the 
hole made by the dibble, when planted. 
Lettuce. — Sow for succession. Also thin 
out and plant a few more in any spare place ; 
hoe and water them well. 
Onions. — A few may be sown if required 
for salads. Stake those retained for seed ; look 
to those that were winter sown, and take up 
when ripe, that is, when the haulm breaks 
down, and turns yellow. 
Parsnips. — Thin out, if not already done, to 
the proper distances ; do not defer the opera- 
tion too long. 
Parsley. — The present month is a good 
time to sow ; it is always much in demand. 
Thin and transplant the early sowing. 
Peas. — Make two sowings, choosing for the 
last to put in an early sort, and upon a warm 
spot ; support those coming on according to 
their manner of growth, either by stakes or 
string ; top them when at a foot high, and 
again when at three feet. Give thorough 
waterings ; a weak solution of nitrate of soda 
benefits amazingly. 
Potatoes. — Frequently hoe, and keep a 
healthy surface amongst the early crops ; do 
not earth up too heavily. 
Radishes. — Sow amongst any of the small 
seeds, to be drawn early ; yet to have them in 
a bed by themselves is preferable ; they should 
be in a moist situation. 
Savoys. — Plant out from the seed-beds, at 
about twenty inches apart, on a good soil, and 
water them. 
Seahale. — Thin out the crowns where they 
have grown too thick, and do it early, so that 
the buds which are left may have time to 
become strong and vigorous before the leaves 
decay. 
Shallots. — Take up the early planted crops, 
if the tops are turning yellow ; dry them well 
in the sun, and then tie them in small bunches 
for storing. 
Spinach. — Sow again this month, in broad 
bottomed drills. If this crop is partially shaded 
by others, it is no disadvantage now ; thin out 
advancing crops. 
Turnips. — Make another sowing ; thin out 
those which are large enough, and do it early ; 
give them a fine and rich soil. The Swedish 
turnip may yet be planted with success. 
Vegetable Marroivs. — It is still in good 
time either to plant out or sow; let it be 
under a hand-light on rich light soil, such as 
an old hotbed ; they are then sure to succeed. 
THE FRUIT GAKDEX. 
General Directions. — The training of the 
trees — particularly young ones — is now an im- 
portant operation ; as also is the thinning of 
the shoots and fruit ; protect the early fruits 
from birds ; destroy insects, and prevent their 
ravages by fumigating, syringing, dusting the 
trees with brown snuff and sulphur, &c, all 
of which will be severally necessary ; also 
examine the crevices of the walls for snails, 
grubs, &c. Do not overcrop the wall-tree 
borders. 
Apples. — The young wood as well as fruit 
of standards, and trellis, and wall trees, should 
be thinned ; this may now be successfully per- 
formed. Both old and young trees which have 
been transplanted, should be mulched and well 
watered. Tie up, or nail the young shoots of 
grafts and trees, taking care not to fasten 
either too tight : remove all suckers and 
shoots below the grafts. 
Apricots. — The fruit and shoots may now 
be thinned, with freedom, but it must be done 
still by degrees ; pin in the young wood, and 
nail in the shoots at the extremities. Two 
fruits to a square foot is a fair crop ; and to 
leave the well-placed backmost buds or shoots 
will often be found more than a sufficient 
supply of young wood. 
Cherries. — Give a final dressing, and pre- 
pare to protect the fruit by netting. Forked 
sticks, eighteen inches long, will be necessary 
against the walls to keep the netting from 
pressing against the trees. 
