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ORCIIIDEOUS HOUSE. 
wood of the bud when cut otF. With a sharp 
budding-knife cut a slit just to the bottom of 
the bark, an inch and a half long, in the pre- 
sent year's wood of the stock, the nearer to 
the trunk the better; half-way, or in the 
middle of this slit, cut one across it ; with the 
thin handle of the budding-knife raise the 
bark of the stock ; then cut a piece an inch 
long, and thin, only just rather thicker than 
the bark itself, having a leaf in the centre of 
it, from the piece you mean to bud ; tuck this 
dexterously under the bark which you have 
raised, so that the bark will hold it in. This is 
to be tied down upon it, so that the leaf of the 
new piece of wood comes in the centre of the 
cross cut; bind it thus, with the bark down 
upon it, with a bit of worsted or matting, and 
it is done. 
The operations in the Flower Garden are so 
very similar to those in May, that very few 
subjects require separate notice. Generally 
speaking, all the annuals sown in heat or in 
beds for planting out, are planted out in May 
and June. Those in heat, (unless continued 
to grow in pots for the purpose of advancing 
them more before they are placed out) would 
be chiefly planted out last month, but this 
present month will require the bulk of the 
annuals to be completed. The bedding out 
of all the tender and half-hardy plants grown 
on purpose, or saved under cover, for beds and 
borders, can hardly be completed too soon; 
Fuchsias, Verbenas, Geraniums, Heliotropes, 
Petunias, Salvias, Calceolarias, especially the 
refuse of seedlings, from which the best are 
taken, and all other subjects which require 
protection in the winter, are alike in this re- 
spect. Herbaceous plants in pots may be also 
placed in the borders ; and biennials in pots, 
if they have not already bloomed, will be 
useful in ornamenting the garden. Petunias, 
Verbenas, and some other of the subjects, 
planted last month in clumps, may require 
regulating by pegging the shoots to the ground 
in the way they are to grow. A writer, in one 
of the public newspapers, suggested some time 
since, that pegs may be superseded by means 
of lengths of bast matting; a few inches of 
which, forming a loop over the shoot, could 
be made a complete holdfast. By taking a 
dibber, making a hole, into which the two 
ends might be placed as far down as to make 
the loop close to the ground, and then by 
squeezing the soil, as in the case of planting 
out, the ground would hold the bast tight. It 
is a much more troublesome way ; but as we 
have done it with dwarf-growing Verbenas, 
Ave cannot say it may not be useful when pegs 
are not to be obtained. Stocks may be planted 
out as last month ; and scarcely a single opera- 
tion recommended for May, will be out of 
place in June, unless it has been done already. 
Tuurs, as they go out of bloom, may have 
all the weather given to them, by removing all 
sorts of covering; and they should not be dis- 
turbed until the leaves are turning brown, and 
the stem has decayed half way down. This 
will have happened to some exposed beds last 
month ; but many more, and those of the 
most choice kind, grown in covered beds, will 
not have arrived at any such state until the 
end of the month, or thereabouts. In the 
mean time, the Tulip beds must be weeded as 
clean as any crop in the world; for if weeds 
are once allowed to grow to any size, they can 
hardly be removed without disturbing thebulbs. 
The taking up was fully discussed last month, 
and the same will apply to the best beds left 
in the ground to the present period. The 
removal of the pods of seed the instant the 
blooms fade, hastens the ripening of the bulb, 
and the decay of the foliage; and therefore 
should be attended to as jealously this month 
as in May. 
ORCHIDEOUS HOUSE. 
As the sun becomes more powerful this house 
must be well shaded, and the moisture be the 
more carefully kept up, by syringing the 
plants and cuttings, wetting the floors and 
pipes, and the moss that may be about the 
walls and the blocks, or other places on which 
the plants are growing. If you have no other 
means of growing these plants than the ordi 
nary stove affords, you must attend particu- 
larly to the plan recommended last month; for 
the dry atmosphere which would prevail, with- 
out"! the syringing, would inevitably stunt the 
blooms, and completely alter their character. 
Heat and moisture are the great means by 
which the finest specimens are produced, and 
these must be given. These, however, can 
only be imperfectly supplied in an ordinary 
stove, where there are many other plants. 
We have very recently seen a shallow tank, 
occupying a considerable space, in a common 
stove, at the warmer end of it, and a trellise or 
barred top to it, on which, and over which, the 
orchideous plants were standing, or suspended. 
The water was heated from the pipes, by a 
branch going through it; and the plants, which 
were almost enveloped in wet moss, were 
doing pretty well. A partition, to shut this 
off altogether, would have completed a very 
useful contrivance. When the orchideous 
plants have perfected their flowers, they may 
be kept cooler, and, indeed, will remain in 
perfection in an ordinary conservatory, or a 
drawing-room, for a considerable time. 
PITS AND FRAMES. 
These structures, being emptied of their 
winter stock, may be variously employed : 
in one way, by filling them with tan, a 
