_A Monthly Journal of Floriculture and Horticulture, for Professional, Practical, and Amateur Gardeners 
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OPERATIONS FOR MAY. 
All beds and borders should be hoed 
and raked to make them neat! for the 
winter. The pruning of shrubs and the 
clipping of edgings may now be done. 
Hardy plants of all descriptions should be 
put in at once. Plant hardy annuals of 
all kinds, and, sow seeds fos successive lots. 
Plant hardy bulbs at once. Edgings of 
box, thyme, rosemary, fairy rose, and 
lavender may be put in, using either 
rooted plants or cuttings, the latter being 
quite as reliable as the rooted if made six 
inches long and planted within two inches 
of the tips. 
Divide and replant at once violets, 
primroses, perennial phlox, penstemions, 
agapanthus, and other herbaceous plants. 
These all delight in rich oils, and should. 
be well mulched with short, decayed 
manure. Sow and plant out all hardy 
annuals. Plant ‘evergreen trees and 
shrubs at once, watering well as soon as 
planted. Prune, manure, and dig around. 
roses. A few plants of the tea varieties 
may be left unpruned for autumn flowers. 
Continue planting hardy bulbs and tubers, 
such ag anemones, ranunculi, snowflakes, 
nerines, hyacinths, and gladioli. Put in 
cuttings of verbenas, petunias, pelargo- 
niums, lobelias, cupheas, &c., for planting 
out in the spring. Mark the best chrysan- 
themums for propagation whilst in bloom. 
Prepare ground at once for tree and shrub 
planting, manuring liberally where the 
soil is poor. 
may now be pruned, leaving evergreens 
until midwinter. In pruning dwarf roses 
atl old stems should be cut out, leaving 
only those of last season’s growth, 
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These hints may serve as suggestions as 
to how you may practise practical garden- 
ing; and, moreover, you may find this the 
solution of the problem of expenditures 
whereby you are producing the maximum’ 
of results with a minimum, of cash—a 
strong factor of appeal to your employer. 
Do not allow the tendency to follow 
paths of earlier training all your days pre- 
vent your varying your methods or ideals. 
If not adapted to your present needs on 
the requirements of your employer, doubt. 
less this earlier training was fully up: to 
date those times; but with! new) methods 
and new ideals you must give such careful 
attention and apply them to your personal 
use. Immense strides are being made in 
horticulture; the painstaking methods of 
the old gardening training of the European 
countries is excellent in the same way that 
the study of botany is excellent training, 
even if in after life you make little applica- 
tion of the technical knowledge. No coun- 
try ati present is advancing’ in horticulture 
as fast as this, however, especially in the 
line of new investigation. It is true that 
much time and money have been, spent by 
the experiment stations and the Govern- 
ment departments in lines that have seem- 
ingly been a waste. It is not easy for the 
college professor to abandon theory for 
practice; yet we are hardly in a position 
to criticise him for his accurate, investiga- 
tions which are bound in the long run, to 
tell, and already far-reaching results are 
being accomplished. Pure mushroom: cul- 
ture ig a recent and very important result ; 
nitro-culture will prove of far wider import- 
ance. Fertiliser investigations, the study 
of soils, irrigation, and forestry ; the reme- 
dies for plant diseases; the control of in- 
sect pests—all are very largely attributable 
to Government effort, and this knowledge 
