_Kitchen Garden._--Watering will be necessary in each department, if
the weather is hot and dry. In the first week, sow peas for the last
crop of the season; also Longpod beans and French beans. In the last
week, sow red globe or Chirk Castle turnip for a full winter crop,
spinach for an early winter supply and Enfield Market cabbage for
early summer use. Sow endive, for autumn and winter use, in the
beginning and end of the month; also successional crops of lettuce and
small salads. Make up successional mushroom beds. Plant full crops of
celery, celeriac, endive about the middle and end of the month; late
crops of broccoli, cauliflower and coleworts in the last week. Gather
and dry herbs; also propagate these by slips and cuttings.
_Fruit Garden._--Continue the pruning and training of wall and
espalier trees, and the destruction of noxious insects. Pot
strawberries for forcing next winter, and make new beds out of doors
as soon as well-rooted runners can be obtained. Propagate the
different sorts of stone fruit trees by budding on other trees or on
prepared stocks. Gather fruits of all kinds as they ripen.
_Forcing._--Prune melons and cucumbers, giving air and water and
maintaining heat, &c. Continue the routine treatment in the
tomato-houses. Feed the plants artificially as soon as good crops are
set; do not wait for signs of distress. The forcing-houses ought to
have abundance of fresh air and moisture where required, along with
the necessary heat.
_Plant Houses._--Ventilation will be necessary to keep down excessive
heat; and attention must be paid to potting, shifting and putting in
cuttings, and giving abundance of water to the potted plants, both
indoors and out. Sow seed of herbaceous calceolarias; shift heaths, if
they require it; cut down pelargoniums past flowering, and plant the
cuttings.
_Flower Garden and Shrubbery._--Take up the remaining tuberous roots,
such as anemones, ranunculuses, &c., by the end of the first week;
fill up their places, and any vacancies that may have occurred, with
annuals or bedding plants from the reserve ground. Repot auriculas,
and sow auricula seed in boxes under glass. Propagate herbaceous and
other plants that have gone out of flower, by means of cuttings and
slips, especially those required for spring bedding; propagate also
the various summer bedding plants increased by cuttings. Increase
roses and American shrubs, by layering, budding or cuttings, and go on
with the layering of carnations and picotees. Stake and tie up dahlias
and strong herbaceous plants.