Green-House

Air, admit freely to all plants detained in the house. - Bud, oranges, lemons, etc. - Camellias, syringe and water frequently; shade in hot days. -Cuttings, slips, etc, water. - Dress and give fresh earth as required. - Heaths, plant, slips. - Layers may be made. - Moving out of house (see June). - Oranges and Lemons require water daily; thin fruit if thick; remove blossoms where fruit is thick enough; give earth; air, admit freely. - Peat plants, examine almost daily to see that they do not dry. - Propagate by cuttings, slips, etc. - Seedlings, prick into small pots. - Shade during hot bright days; calico frames are best. - Shifting, complete, b. - Stove plants (hardier) may be moved into green-house. - Stake, trim, and train as required. - Succulent plants, cultivate by cuttings, slips, and suckers. - Watering and cleaning are now the chief occupations ; apply water early in the morning by the engine.

July-Flower

Prosopis julifiora.

June

June is also a busy month.

Hot-House

Air, admit freely during every mild day; but exclude as evening approaches. - Bark Beds, occasionally will require stirring; water and ventilate freely. - Grapes, thin; ripening keep dry. - Heat, keep up as required. - Pines are now ripening; plant crowns as they occur; give liquid manure; syringe; shade in very hot days. - Propagation, continue as requisite, by seed, suckers, slips, layers, cuttings, offsets, etc. (See May.) - Steam, admit almost daily. - Strawberries done forcing, allow to dry; remove into larger pots with new earth, and keep for second forcing. - Syringe Pines, and other plants, frequently. - Tobacco fumigations, give occasionally. - Vines, push forward by warmth, liquid manure, etc.; mulch round roots outside the house; stop laterals. - Watering attend to duly; it is required generally oftener and more liberally than in preceding months; apply it in the morning early.

Juniperus

Juniper. Nineteen species besides varieties. Hardy evergreen trees and shrubs. Seed and cuttings. Sandy loam. See Coniferce.

Jupiter's Beard

Anthyllis bar-ba-jovis.

Justicia

Sixty-four species. Stove and green-house plants; some shrubs, others biennials and annuals, and a third group trailers. The biennials and annuals require to be sown in a hot-house or hotbed; the others are increased by cuttings, and all delight in light loam and peat.

Kageneckia

Kageneckia cratcegoides. Half-hardy evergreen tree. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.

Kalanchoe

Seven species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam and peat.

Kale

See Borecole.

Kalmia

Five species and more varieties. Hardy evergreen shrubs. Seed and layers. Sandy loam and peat.

Kalosanthes

Eight species. Green-house evergreen succulents. Cuttings dried for forty-eight hours; sandy loam and peat.

Kanguru Vine

Cissus antarc-ticus.

Kaulfussia

Kaulfussia amelloides. Hardy annual. Seed. Sandy loam.

Kelp

Kelp is the ash remaining after seaweed is burnt, and has been used with great advantage as a manure to potatoes, brocoli, and other species of bras-sica. It is composed of carbonate of soda, and iodide and bromide of potassium, carbon, sulphates of lime and magnesia, and other matters of trivial importance. See Green Manure. .