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CALENDARIAL MEMORANDA FOR JUNE. 
Kidney Beans .—Succession sowings of both dwarf and runner sorts 
should now be sown ; of the former thrice, and of the latter twice : the 
first in shallow drills, thirty inches apart, and sprinkled with water 
before sowing; the second in single, or if double rows, from four or five 
feet apart, and also assisted by watering, if necessary. The advancing 
crops should be hoed among, and timely sticked after earthing up. 
Cauliflowers — Are now in perfection. Preserve the colour by 
shading with their own leaves. Give water to the backward plants, 
if the weather or soil be dry. Prick out the seedlings intended for the 
Michaelmas crop in an open spot, to get strength before they are put 
out for good in July or beginning of August. 
Cabbage .—Moderate quantities of cabbage plants should be drawn 
from the previously sown seed or nursery beds, to keep up a constant 
supply of this vegetable in its most perfect state. Cabbage are apt to 
be stinted by drought, and disfigured by insects during summer; plen¬ 
tiful watering is the only remedy. Sow twice in this month, at the 
beginning and near the end; the first may, by proper subsequent 
management, be called autumn cabbage; the second, coleworts. 
Broccoli .—Now put in full crops of broccoli; all the sorts require well- 
dunged and deep-digged ground. Place the plants in rows, at distances 
according to their bulk of growth—say two feet every way for dwarfs, 
and from thirty to thirty-six inches apart for the strong-growing kinds. 
Dibbed in furrows drawn by the hoe facilitates watering, which is 
requisite at planting, as frequently afterwards in dry weather. Con¬ 
tinue to prick out seedlings from former sowings into nursing-beds ; 
this induces a stocky growth, and consequently finer heads. About 
the beginning of the month sow the latest hardy sorts, as the Siberian 
and hardy purple or green varieties. 
Leeks .—Draw from the seed-beds the strongest plants ; trim their 
tops and longest fibres a little; dip them in puddle made with rich 
earth and water, and dib them in furrows made by the hoe, six inches 
apart from each other, and twelve intervals between the rows. It is 
well to insert the plants rather deeply in the hollow, pressing the earth 
firmly upon the fibres, but leaving a hollow space round the stem; this 
effects the lengthening of the blanched part of the latter more than if 
planted on the surface. 
Carrots .—The advancing crops must be kept free from weeds, and 
carefully thinned, as advised last month; and if a moderate-sized bed 
for drawing young during autumn was not sown last month, it may 
now be done. 
Savoy Cabbage .—Plant out a succession crop of this vegetable for 
winter use; also all the kindred kinds of greens, namely, borecole, 
