the rows of strawberries and keep well
watered.
Sow vegetable seeds for succession.
Plant out gourds, marrows, etc.
If the weather is hot keep everything well watered.
Transplant violets to their cool Summer quarters.
Syringe frequently under glass.
JUNE.
_Average Temperature 59._
If the garden is not altogether dependent on bedding plants it ought to be
looking its freshest and best.
See that everything has enough water.
Continue to thin out flowering annuals as they increase in size.
Carefully stake larkspurs, carnations, etc.
If the leaves of Spring bulbs have turned quite yellow, cut them off, but
not before.
Give copious supplies of water to all wall plants as a slight shower of
rain scarcely touches them.
Give occasional doses of manure to rose trees, and pick off all faded
flowers.
Water rockeries.
Stake runner beans.
Sow late broccoli.
Sow more lettuce.
Water peaches, apricots, etc., copiously.
Mulch all fruit trees.
Protect cherries from birds.
Draw earth up round potatoes.
Water marrows well and often with liquid manure.
Early this month plant out tomatoes on a south or west wall.
Keep greenhouses well ventilated both day and night.
Harden off azaleas before being set outside next month.
Most plants under glass will want watering twice a day or they must stand
in a saucer of water.
JULY.
_Average Temperature 62._
Look out for rose suckers and cut them off.
Syringe rose trees.
Mulch those going out of flower to induce them to make fresh buds.
Keep faded flowers picked off.
Commence propagating carnations.
Take note of gaps in the flower beds and fill up from the nursery garden.
Place azaleas, heaths, etc., outside in a shady place to rest awhile.
Pansies which are blooming well on cool borders should have weak solutions
of guano water afforded them.
Cut down faded spikes of larkspur and mulch and water well.
This month bedding plants are valuable as July is not a good month for
herbaceous perennials.
Stake the later runner beans.
Plant out celery.
Sow more turnip seed.
Syringe both wall fruit and standards.
Make new plantations of strawberries.
Water lawn every day if possible.
Thin out the superfluous wood of fig trees and shorten gross shoots on all
fruit trees.
Keep everything well watered under glass.
Give air all night to greenhouses.
Tie up climbers to roof neatly and frequently syri
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