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GARDENING CALENDAR FOR JUNE. 
the plants are somewhat dry by the time the 
sun becomes powerful. 
Potting. — Continue to shift such plants as 
require it, but do not over-pot hard-wooded 
plants. They are easily injured by such a 
practice, even when great care is taken in the 
drainage. Pot or prick off all seedlings or 
cuttings as soon as they are ready, and shade 
and water regularly until they are established 
in their new positions. 
Soils. — Always be on the look out to collect 
different substances, so as to have them within 
reach at all times. Few soils deteriorate by 
laying in heaps ; even manures intended for 
composts for greenhouse plants can hardly be 
too much decomposed ; hence the advantage 
of having a good stock. 
Dressing. — Keep every part of the house, 
and every plant quite clean ; never allow one 
plant to usurp a portion of the room necessary 
for its neighbour ; stake and tie up all as they 
advance in growth. 
Insects. — Fumigate with tobacco, or syringe 
with diluted tobacco water as often as the 
green fly appears ; a day or two of neglect is 
not to be recovered. 
Agaves may be placed out of doors in their 
summer stations, and should be freely watered 
as soon as they show signs of renewed growth. 
Aloes, and similar plants, may be watered 
according to the vigour of their growth, in 
which they should be encouraged to the utmost. 
Alstromerias should be shaded if in bloom, 
and kept cool at the root : as they begin to 
decline after flowering, the quantity of water 
should be gradually reduced. 
Annuals, such as are still in a luxuriant 
condition, may be finally shifted, and may also 
be tied out, to give them the requisite shape ; 
water the more luxuriant growing sorts now 
and then, with manure water. 
Azaleas. — Grow these on freely, shifting 
all such as require it ; let them be shaded 
from the mid-day sun, and freely watered and 
syringed until their growth is complete, when 
they may be more exposed. 
Calceolarias — Keep those for late bloom- 
ing in a shad} r , cool, and airy house, carefully 
guarding against either an excess or deficiency 
of water ; shade those in bloom, and remove 
such as are past, to a cool frame. 
Camellias should be encouraged to perfect 
their growth by a regular supply of heat and 
moisture, with a sufficient admission of air to 
prevent their being weakened, or drawn, as it 
is technically called. 
Cape Bulbs. — These plants require the 
greatest amount of light which can possibly 
be given ; they should therefore be near the 
glass, and should also enjoy a free circulation 
of air, and considerable moisture, while in a 
growing state : as soon as the foliage of 
any of the species begins to wither, withhold 
water. 
Cephaloh'S follicularis (New Holland Pit- 
cher-plant) must be kept moist both at root 
and top, but a free circulation of air is also 
necessary to guard against excessive damp. 
Cinerarias. — Continue to propagate and 
pot off seedlings ; grow them in cool frames, 
and shade them from the sun, but expose them 
freely at night. 
Chrysanthemums should be grown in a free 
airy place, and not urged too much yet : those 
turned out should be kept free from weeds, 
and watered occasionally in very dry weather : 
shift a few of the earliest sorts so as to encou- 
rage them to bloom early. 
Crassidas. — Those past blooming should be 
grown on freely, in order to gain time to ripen 
them thoroughly before autumn : an occa- 
sional watering with manure water may be had 
recourse to, when they are in full growth. 
Cyclamens. — Shift those growing freely; 
or, what is better, plant them out, especially 
seedlings, in a free soil and shady situation, 
where they will grow rapidly. 
Epacris. — Water freely until they complete 
their growth, when the supply must be short- 
ened, but by no means withheld : tie them 
out regularly, and stop over-luxuriant shoots. 
Ericas. — These may still be shifted where 
necessary. Protect the pots of such as are set 
out of doors from the direct rays of the sun, 
and also from dry currents of air, either of 
which conditions is very fatal to these fine- 
rooted plants ; a good plan is to plunge them 
in coal-ashes, or moss, keeping this material in 
a rather damp state, and allowing the heads 
of the plants to be freely exposed, except to 
the mid- day sun. Attend very particularly 
to the state of the roots, and keep the tops 
well stopped back, to form neat compact heads. 
Fuchsias. — Shift the plants as they require 
it, shading them for a time afterwards : water 
abundantly, and keep them neatly trained. 
Gompholobiums, and similar creeping plants, 
should be encouraged in their growth, and 
brought into the requisite shape as they ad- 
vance ; keep the roots cool, and water carefully. 
Hatvortliias, Apicras, &c, should be en- 
couraged in growth, but not so as to commence 
a second start : as they appear to arrive at 
maturity, the supply of water should be 
reduced, but the plants should still be sub- 
mitted to intense light and heat. 
Helichrysums require careful watering, and 
their roots and pots should not be exposed to 
the direct action of the sun ; regulate such as 
are growing freely, by stopping the most lux- 
uriant shoots. 
Leschenaultias. — Shift such as require if, 
making sure of a porous soil, so that water 
may be freely administered, and may as freely 
