Garden Notes for June. 
June is tlie harvest month for early 
crops, and it demands a large amount of 
good management and energy to clear the 
early crops and the weeds away in season 
to make room for the late ones, which will 
soon cover the land. It is now the time to 
market spring spinach, kale, cabbage 
greens, radishes, lettuce, forced cucumbers, 
onion sets, cauliflowers and early cabbages, 
rhubarb and asparagus, green peas and 
strawberries. 
The crops which are planted this month 
are cabbage seed from 1st to 15tli, for late 
crop for winter market; squash from 1st 
till the 20th or 25tli, the later the planting 
the less danger is to be feared from bugs. 
Melons and cucumbers transplanted from 
hot beds about the 5tli to 10th. Melon seed 
may also be sown the first week in June in 
the field. Cucumber seed for pickling need 
not be put in till the 20th to 80th. Tomato 
plants set out the first week in June often 
do as well as those set earlier. 
The warm weather of June is pretty sure 
to make plenty of work in destroying 
weeds; if possible this should be done by 
the cultivator or shove hoe, or the common 
hoe, leaving as little as possible to be done 
by hand; but where double crops are 
grown, such as spinach or radishes between 
the crops of roots, etc., it often becomes 
necessary to pull the weeds by hand when 
clearing off.the early crop, before the hoe 
can be used safely. In general, it is far 
easier and better in every way to take the 
weeds when small and easily killed, than 
to wait until they are large and require 
hard pulling. Such weeds as chickweed 
and purslane, which very quickly go to 
seed, should be carefully removed from the 
land, in order to destroy the seeds they con¬ 
tain; the safest way is to dump them in 
some out of the way corner, where they 
can do no harm, or to compost them care¬ 
fully with hot horse dung, which will 
effectually destroy the seeds, if the com¬ 
post is turned carefully so as to bring all 
parts into the heat of the central portion 
of the heap. The outside of the heap does 
not become hot enough to destroy all the 
seeds, but the middle does. 
If a cold storm should occur just as the 
cucumbers and melons are coming up, they 
often die. The only remedy is to replant, 
and this may be done with melons as late 
as June 10 or 12, and with cucumbers for 
pickling, as late as July 6. 
Celery plants are transplanted in June to 
the fields, where they are to grow among 
the onions, cabbages, etc. A cloudy day 
is best, and if hot weather follows, the 
plants will need watering for a few days. 
The celery plant is quite delicate and wilts 
easily, and often perishes for want of hav¬ 
ing the earth well pressed around the root 
in setting. 
Pepper plants are transplanted from the 
hot bed to land that has been cleared of 
early lettuce, radishes, or spinach, about 
the middle of the month; they are a vig¬ 
orous plant and easily grow in warm 
weather. 
CARE OF MANURE. 
The gardeners who handle a large amount 
of fresh horse manure throngh the hot 
weather find it necessary to take care of it 
immediately, to avoid loss by excessive 
heating and drying up; there are three 
ways of doing this. First, by ploughing it 
under, using a large plough, two men fol¬ 
lowing the plough with forks and poking 
the straw and coarse dung into the furrow; 
this is perhaps the best way, but it can not 
always be done. The second method is 
to throw the manure into hog yards to be 
trampled and worked over by the swine, 
who soon manufacture it into a compound 
having all the elements of plant food com¬ 
bined after the most approved chemical 
proportions and warranted to give satis¬ 
faction, when applied in sufficient quantity 
to any garden crop. The third method is 
to compost the manure with night soil and 
loam in sufficient quantities to prevent 
overheating, and to work it over from time 
to time in wet weather; a laborious meth¬ 
od, but one which gives excellent results. 
The gardeners who use a good deal of 
glass and haul a good deal of horse ma¬ 
nure, usually have enough of such com¬ 
posts to supply the wants of nearly all 
crops raised by them; they have, however, 
used the standard fertilizers of the market 
