CALENDAR!AL MEMORANDA FOR MAY. 
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swell off. Sufficient bottom heat and due supplies of water must be 
afforded, as well as sufficient night coverings, even at this advanced 
period of the season. 
Strawberries. —In pots should he forced in regular succession either 
in houses or in frames ; and the crops in the open garden, if the weather 
he dry, should'receive copious waterings at this time to ensure a full crop. 
BUSINESS OP FLOWER GARDEN IN MAY. 
Sow a succession of hardy annuals and biennials ; and thin and 
transplant some of those sown in March. See that all the tender 
annuals in frames are duly potted. Such as are intended to be placed 
in the open borders may he put out about the end of the month. 
Auriculas —Must be carefully guarded against slugs and caterpillars 
at this time; and when they are done flowering they may be shifted. 
Those plants intended to ripen seed should not be shifted at this time, 
but set under a south wall, and be well supplied with water till the 
seed is ripe. 
Cereus and other allied succulent plants are watered sparingly, and 
treated as hereinbefore recommended. 
Camellias being now in a growing state will require a temperature 
of from sixty-five to seventy by day, and from fifty-five to sixty on 
nights. If about the end of the month the young shoots are perfected, 
increase the heat to eighty or eiglity-five degrees by day, and seventy 
to seventy-five by night, to assist the development of flower-buds. 
Carnation. —Seed may be shaken out of the capsule and sown about 
the middle of the month in pans or pots of light soil, and very slightly 
covered with earth. 
Chrysanthemum Indicum. —Separate the best suckers from the old 
stools in this month, and pot them in sixty-sized pots for flowering 
plants next season. 
Dahlias. — Plant out seedlings, and turn out such as have been 
forwarded in frames or houses about the end of the month, into the 
borders or places where it is intended they shall flower. 
Ranunculus. —If the roots of these plants be planted now, instead of 
earlier in the season, they will yield their flowers in August. 
Violets. —New beds or patches may now be made ; runners from the 
old stools make the best new plants. 
Rose Trees .—The common roses which were left unpruned at the 
usual pruning season, may now be cut back, in order to obtain a late 
show of flowers. This practice may be continued for a month or two 
later in the summer. 
Cuttings of heaths, passion-flowers, and many other ornamental 
plants may now be put in with every chance of success. 
