CALENDARTAL MEMORANDA FOR JUNE. 
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Cardoons may yet be sown. Cease cutting Asparagus after the 
middle of the month. Herbs may be propagated; and the general 
business includes destroying weeds, slugs, snails, and all hurtful 
insects. 
Fruit Trees. — These, whether on walls, espaliers, or otherwise, 
require at this season constant attention, not only for the purpose of 
displacing irregular growths, but for freeing the trees as much as 
possible from the myriads of insects with which they are this year 
infested, owing, no doubt, to the very dry summer of the last. Fre¬ 
quent washings with water or soap-suds, and hand-picking, are the 
only and most efficient means to disperse the insects, and in some 
measure to prevent the same annoyance in another year. Thinning 
fruit is a part of the labour of this month, and lucky are those who 
have this business to do. The gooseberry caterpillar appears to be 
plentiful, and, if not attended to, will injure both trees and fruit. 
Slugs and snails must be banished by drenchings of lime-water, or, 
where it can be applied, with hot powdered lime. Birds must be kept 
off the early strawberries and cherries; for, though small birds do 
much good in a garden, by destroying thousands of insects with which 
they feed their young, they reward themselves by taking a full tithe of 
the earliest fruit. 
Flower Garden. —Dahlias must now, if not done already, be 
placed in their blooming stations. Stakes will be required for their 
stems; their situation should be sheltered rather than shady, and they 
should always have a fresh compost of rich loam and road-sand to grow 
in. Pot off seedlings, if not already done. Auriculas may now be 
shifted; and Tulip, Hyacinth, and Ranunculus beds may still require 
attention, to preserve the beauty of the late flowers, by shading or 
other care. Carnations require good nursing, to ensure vigorous growth 
and perfect bloom. Tender and half-hardy annuals may be placed in 
the open borders, as well as any greenhouse plants that may be spared 
for that purpose. Transplant annuals previously sown too thick. Sow 
biennials; and propagate, by cuttings, every plant of which a supply 
may be wanted. 
Greenhouse plants, now in their summer station, will require water 
daily; and all necessary steps should be taken now, to ensure a full 
bloom of every sort of flowering plant, till the frost of winter sets in. 
