GARDENING CALENDAR FOR JULY. 
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ripens, and pot off the plants as soon as they 
have formed about three rough leaves. 
Primulas. — Sow the seeds now for a main 
supply ; use a compost of free loam and peat, 
with a sufficiency of sand to keep it porous ; 
sow thinly and cover lightly. Propagate the 
double varieties by parting the old plants into 
separate crowns or shoots, and pot them, or 
make cuttings of them, as they may have roots 
or not ; keep them close in a pit, and rather 
dry until they commence to grow again. 
Protects, Banksias, Dryandras, &c. — Water 
carefully, and regulate their growth so as to 
form neat plants ; if placed out of doors, pro- 
tect from high winds and heavy rains. 
Rhododendrons. — Plunge the pots in earth 
or ashes, and mulch the surface with moss or 
other material, to prevent the action of the. sun 
on the young roots at the side of the pot. 
Water regularly and copiously, and keep the 
leaves clean by syringing. 
Roses. — Young plants of the Chinese and 
related sorts should be shifted as they require 
it, and the shoots should be shortened so as to 
produce a regular head : protect the pots of 
those placed out of doors in a similar way to 
that recommended for Rhododendrons. Use 
manure water occasionally, and syringe with 
dilute tobacco water whenever the green fly 
appears. 
Salvias. — Shift, stop, and regulate the 
plants as they advance, and remove the flowers 
from such as are wanted for late bloom. 
Propagate by cuttings in a slight bottom heat. 
Stapelias. — Continue to water freely as they 
advance, keeping them in a wai'm airy place, 
and strong light ; watch the drainage, that no 
stagnant water may lodge about the roots. 
Tropceolums. — Dry off the bulbs as the 
foliage decays, and keep them dry until they 
break naturally. Care should be taken that 
after being dry some time, they do not get 
accidentally wetted, as they are liable to start 
off into a weak spindling growth. 
THE CONSERVATORY. 
Temperature. — From 60 to 70 degrees by 
day, and from 55 to GO degrees by night. 
Ventilation. — Maintain a free circulation, 
and leave considerable air on all night in hot 
weather : allow no openings on the sides 
affected by strong winds. 
Watering. — Water should be applied freely 
to all plants in bloom, or making their growth; 
such as are planted out should be carefully 
examined at the root, and well soaked : 
syringe night and morning, cleaning up all 
water from the paths in the morning, that they 
may be early dry. 
Arrangement. — As a great portion of the 
plants now in flower here, consist of annuals, 
great variety may be obtained by continually 
altering, contrasting, and harmonizing the 
various colours, placing them sometimes in 
masses of one colour or sort, at others, blend- 
ing all together, of course avoiding as far as 
possible all straight lines. 
General Directions, — Gontinue to maintain 
the most scrupulous neatness in every respect. 
Watch for insects, especially the red spider, 
and apply immediate remedies. Constantly 
tie up, stop, and regulate the climbing-plants, 
taking care that they are properly thinned, so 
as not to present a heavy appearance in the 
house. Remove all plants as soon as they look 
at all past their prime, especially annuals, 
which soon present a shabby appearance at 
this season. 
THE PLANT STOVE. 
Temperature. — From 70 to 85 degrees by 
day, and from 60 to 70 degrees by night. 
Ventilation. — Give air freely, as far as the 
weather permits, closing the house early in the 
afternoon. Open very little on the windy 
side, not at all in high winds. 
Watering. — Use water abundantly to the 
roots and leaves, by the syringe and as steam. 
Keep the floors flooded, and the evaporating 
pans full. Syringe night and morning, and 
fill the house with steam at the same times. 
Potting. — Continue to shift all such as re- 
quire it, apportioning the size of the pots to 
the strength of the growth. . Stake, stop, and 
otherwise regulate the plant at the same time. 
Keep them close and shaded until they make 
fresh root. 
Insects. — Use every exertion to keep these 
under, as soon as they show themselves ; plants 
very foul with scale or mealy bug should be 
destroyed, or kept apart from the others, and 
not admitted to the collection until perfectly 
clean. 
Achimenes. — Pot any bulbs which may be 
left, or shift such as have been grown in a low 
temperature, and exrfte them to increased 
growth ; they will be useful in autumn and 
winter. Shift such as require it, and remove 
those in bloom to the conservatory. 
Allamanda, Beaumontia, Eckites, and other 
strong growing climbers, must be regularly 
stopped and trained as they advance. Water 
liberally, and syringe as often as possible. 
Alpinias, Hedychiums, and other reedy 
plants, should be shifted as they require it, and 
any in bloom should be removed to a warm 
part of the conservatory ; abundance of water 
should be given until the leaves begin to 
decay. 
Aflielandras, Justicias, Ruellias, &c. — Shift 
and regulate as they advance in growth ; 
water copiously, and syringe often, as they are 
very subject to red spider. 
Amaryllids. — Diminish the supply of water 
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