THE GAEDENERS' AND NATUR.4LISTS' CALENDAR FOR JUNE. 
J-j ferment together. After it has been mixed tM^o months, 
turn it, and add a little rotten cow-dnng in the process. 
This with a little peat or leaf mould will he found a 
good compost for most soft-wooded plants. H. E. 
I 
FLOWER-GARDEN.— OUT-DOOR DEPART- 
MENT. 
The forms and figiires of our flower gardens, however 
good the arrangement of the plants may be, are but veiy 
imperfectly seen, as yet, thi'ough the effect of colour ; 
indeed, the beds still wear a very incomplete appearance, 
and wiU. continue to do so, until the individual plants, 
which are distributed over the beds, are sufficiently 
grown to meet one another, and pass through, and 
intermingle with each other ; when there wiU be seen a 
oneness of expression in the beds, and a harmony and 
tranquillity conspicuous in the whole figure. This 
effect will be all the more striking, as studied care has 
been taken in the aiTangemeut of the plants and colours, 
to sufficiently fix the attention on each bed of colour, so 
that the eye may rest there, until it has determined 
something of the coloiu", before it passes on to the next 
mass in the figure. This is what may with propriety 
be termed an intelligible arrangement of colours, because, 
a knowledge of the parts necessary, leads us to an ac- 
quaintance with the whole. On the other hand, if 
variety has been inti'oduced into our fiower gardens, to 
the neglect of expression, and those points of rest indis- 
pensably necessary to all kinds of composition, as well 
as flower-gardening, there will not be observed any 
distinction worth mentioning among the pai-ts, but 
rather a kind of sameness of feeling resulting from 
looking at the whole. This is the work of small ai-tists ; 
it is endless in variety, but ending in nothing. That 
fullness and regularity, so essential to a beautiful effect 
in our flower-gardens, is what haunts the anxious 
gardener by day and by night, and, therefore, his mind 
rests not imtil these effects are observed in the flower- 
garden ; and hence the necessity of aU those means at 
oiu' command, to perfect the forms and colom-s of the 
masses. And, with a view to this, notice the relative 
difference among your bedded plants, and treat them 
accordingly. Some may require a partial shade in 
bright simshine, and others, if exposed to cmTcnts of 
cold di'y air. Verbenas in particulai', grow fast by this 
treatment. Use water fi-om tanks and ponds exposed to 
the sun, and apply it at night, and effectively too, rather 
than often. Attend to stirring of the soil amongst 
Calceolarias, and let the sticks be neat with which you 
stake them, and also of a green colour, like that of the 
leaves of the plant. Plants being light followers, we 
may take advantage of this tendency, by pegging them 
from the light, to cover the ground with lateral branches. 
Verbenas, Ageratums, Petunias, and Anagallises may 
be treated in this way. Plants interlacing the meshes 
of basket-work, require continual attention, not only 
as regards watering, but in training and directing their 
shoots, so as to give a regular sm-face of flowers to the 
sides of the baskets. If any vases are still unfilled, 
contrast the colom' of the plant with the vase, and cover 
the soil with some of the spreading Lobelias. Set out 
Orange trees in their places, and water them at times 
with liquid manrure. Keep all rambling, growing 
creepers within due bounds. Eemove Stocks, China 
Asters, Zinnias, and Marigolds to their appointed 
places, and sow annuals for autiimn flowering. 
Propagation. — Iberis saxatile should be increased 
abundantly by cuttings, which ai-e readily rooted under 
a hand-glass, placed in a rather shaded situation : it is 
a beautififl plant for an edging, or distributing about 
the groups on the grass, and may be cut like Box 
edging. Aubretias, and many other spring flowering 
plants, should be divided at this time, and planted in 
the reserve garden. J. C. 
Sose Garden. — This being the month that princi- 
pally rewards the cultivator of Eoses, spare no pains at 
the beginning of it to remove any bad shaped flower 
buds ; regulate and tie up any weak growing shoots, or 
clear away any insects, so that there may be no impedi- 
ment to their bloom being as perfect as possible. Go 
over them every morning while in bloom, and take off 
all the faded flowers, and also the hips or seed vessels. 
The Perpetuals, or autumn flowering kinds, as soon as 
the bunch has expanded all its flowers, and begins to 
fade, should be cut down to the most vertical eye, 
which by this time wUl, in all probability, have made 
a stai-t ; and, should the weather be diy, the surface of 
the soil should be lightly stin-ed, the gxound satiu-ated 
with manui-e water, or, where that caimot be had, some 
guano should be scattered over the siu-faee after it is 
stirred, and then any soft water may be applied ; the 
strength of the guano will then be earned to the roots 
with the water. 
The frosts on the 2nd and 3rd of May have been very 
injiuious to the young shoots in many situations ; 
where that is the case, it will be well to encourage any 
new shoots that may come from the main branches 
dm-ing the siunmer, so that there may be as much 
healthy wood as possible for another season. 
Keep aU wild shoots cut off as soon as they make 
their appearance, and keep the ground perfectly clear 
of weeds and Jitter. 
During the blooming season, those who wish to add 
to their rosetirms should visit the various collections 
that are cifltivated for sale, so that they may make their 
own choice ; but it wiU be well to ask, if the state any 
particular variety is seen in, is its general character ; 
as Eoses vary very much, paiticidarly some kinds. 
Towards the end of the month many shoots will be 
firm enough for budding, and many kinds will give no 
better buds for working than those on the flowering 
shoots, which must be taken before the flowers are 
quite done, or the wood will adhere to the bark too 
much to be separated readily. In selecting shoots to 
take buds fi-om, take those that are of moderate size, 
avoid the very strongest, clean off the thorns, and cut 
the leaves off, leaving about half-an-inch of the petiole 
to take hold of ; then with a shai-p knife take out the 
bud, beginning about half-an-inch above the eye, and- 
cut clean through, about half the thickness of the shoot, 
bringing the knife out about the eighth of an inch 
below the bud ; then, with the point of the knife, sepa- 
rate the piece of wood left in from the bark, and divide 
the small piece of wood that goes into the eye, without 
loosening the part that is to remain, and lea'\ing suf- 
ficient wood, that, when the bud is inserted, it may 
touch the wood of the stock. Then with the point of 
the knife (harag previously removed the thorns from 
that part of the shoot where the bud is to be inserted) 
open the bark of the stock, in the most convenient 
part of the shoot, fi-om the stem towards the top in 
a straight line, long enough to put in the bud, and 
■with the footstalk of the leaf that is left push the bud 
down as close to the stem as possible, and -with a piece 
of soft bass, or what is better, carpet worsted, tie it 
in, leaving the eye so that it may be just seen, and leave 
it to itself for three weeks or a month, when it. may be 
loosened a Kttle. When the buds have been sent a 
distance, or when, fi-om any other cause, they -wiU not 
run — that is, the bark -will not part fi-om the wood 
readily — they may be pared down as thin as possible, 
and put in without taking the wood out; but they 
make much the neatest plants when the wood is taken 
out. Look after the growing shoots of last year's bud- 
ding as they wiU want fi-equently tying. H. M'M. 
Arboretum and Shrubbery. — Here, for the present, 
the work will be principally routine. Attend to water- 
ing, staking, and mulching newly planted ta-ees, re- 
membering that a good soaking, so as to wet the soil 
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