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tunity to put half a barrowful of rich compost at every station, for the 
plants (or seeds) to be plunged in. 
Cardoons .—Where this vegetable is required, if not sown last month, 
it is not too late to sow in the beginning of this. The seeds may be 
sown in shallow trenches made in the manner of those for celery, and 
made rich by digging in dung or compost in the bottom. When the 
seedlings have advanced three or four inches high, thin them to ten or 
twelve-inch distances, in order to give room for each to be tied up and 
blanched at the proper season. 
Asparagus .—Shoots continue to rise, but they should be sparingly 
cut at this season; and, indeed, cutting should cease after the middle 
of the month, otherwise the strength of the roots would be too much 
exhausted, and hurt the crop of the next year. 
Onions .—Should be kept perfectly clean, and not too much crowded 
together. When the largest sized are wanted, a portion of the crop 
may be left very thin—say eight or ten inches apart, to encourage 
luxuriance. A small bed may be sown to draw young for salad. 
Herbs. — Propagate sage, hyssop, &c., by cuttings ; and thyme, 
borage, marigold, savory, and sweet marjoram by seed. Any that were 
sown last year, standing too thickly, should be thinned. 
The general business of this month, besides what has been specified 
above, is destroying weeds everywhere, together with slugs, snails, and 
all kinds of hurtful insects in and about the garden. 
MANAGEMENT OP WALL AND FORCED FRUITS DURING JUNE. 
Apricot Trees .—Although we might refer to what was advised last 
month respecting these and other wall-trees as the rule for the manager’s 
duties in this, yet the treatment of such trees, both in the last and 
present month, is a matter of so much importance, that we cannot help 
again alluding to it. It has already been hinted that the form, health, 
and fruitfulness of a wall-tree depends much more on the summer than 
on the winter pruning. By regulating the growth in the latter season, 
the rising sap is kept in the desired channels, and none allowed to run 
to waste in the production of useless luxuriance. The state of a tree, 
whether of a weakly or over-luxuriant growth, enables the manager, at 
this season, to assist the one, or check the other. The stinted or feeble- 
conditioned tree may receive additional vigour by being permitted to 
produce a diminished number of well-placed shoots only; and if fruitful, 
as such trees generally are, a very diminished number of fruit. If, 
moreover, the shoots thus reduced in number be laid in in as erect 
positions as possible during the summer growth, will very much assist 
