CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. 
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sary; and on any appearance of the green fly, fumigate them with 
tobacco. 
At the North, roses should be planted out in borders for summer 
blooming. 
If this month be at all forward, you may bud; and if you have 
wood given to you when you are not ready for it, put the ends in wet 
sand, and a hand glass over them; but the sooner you can use the 
buds after you have got them the better. The stocks must be put in 
completely all over, except one or two eyes beyond the bud on the 
branches in which the bud is inserted. All China Roses in pots or 
out of doors may be budded, and so also may all the smooth-barked 
kinds. 
Plant out the young seedlings potted last month, in beds tour feet 
wide, in the same soil, without disturbing the balls of earth; let them 
be six inches from the side of the bed, and a foot apart each way. 
Protect them from vermin by all ordinary means; shade them from 
the heat of the sun at mid-day ; wate,' if required. 
At the North , roses of all kinds planted in open ground, may be 
layered the last of this month. Perpetual Roses will bloom best in 
autumn, if they are pruned in after having opened their first flowers. 
August. 
Continue the budding, and use every precaution to prevent the 
stock from growing, and remove suckers the instant they appear 
above ground. Nothing should be allowed to grow, except, just 
beyond the bud; a shoot may be beneficial, as it draws the sap past 
the bud; but as soon as it is united and doing well, anything growing 
beyond it may be broken off, or bent down to check it a little. Cut¬ 
tings of the smooth-barked kinds will strike almost every month in the 
year; but at the end of this month, whatever you may be anxious to 
propagate may be struck in the shade, under a hand glass, or even 
quicker where there is a little bottom heat. 
The same directi 3ns will also appl/ to the North. 
