| Most of the really pressing chores should be done by | | | | cloth; they will look healthy but be smaller if they are |
| now in the northern garden, so you can take time out | | | | kept on the verge of starvation. |
| to enjoy your garden. I realize that this is a difficult thing | | | | Other planting to do in June: Gladiolus, dahlias and |
| to do, for every year I say to myself, "Slow down, | | | | bedding plants such as begonia, pelargonium (geranium) |
| take it easy; don't be a slave to the garden and | | | | and lantana can be planted now. In the vegetable |
| landscape." But every year it's the same old story: In | | | | garden celery can be planted and, if the garden is a |
| common with about fifty million other gardeners, I | | | | small one, follow-up crops can be planted in the |
| always bite off more than I can chew. I have only a | | | | spaces vacated by early maturing crops such as |
| little time to really look at and enjoy the late spring | | | | spinach, lettuce and radish. Incidentally, one of the best |
| beauty of Oriental poppies, delphinium, lilium and the | | | | of all crops to replace spinach is bush limas or bush |
| rest of the June flowering perennials. | | | | snap beans. |
| Planting water-lilies: It is not too late to plant hardy | | | | Removing seed pods: One of the pleasant chores, |
| water lilies, and in most places it is not too early to set | | | | which can be done at odd times or when you want a |
| out the tropical kinds. Usually by June 15, in the vicinity | | | | change from hard work, is the removing of immature |
| of New York City, the weather is settled and warm. | | | | seed pods from mountain-laurel, rhododendron and lilac. |
| The treatment of water-lilies depends on the size of | | | | This task has a double purpose: that of neatening the |
| the pool: if it is a small one, say about 7 x 10 feet, and | | | | plants and also conserving their energy for future |
| you want to grow several kinds of water-lilies in it, | | | | growth. |
| avoid using rich soil and large containers. If you provide | | | | Thinning fruit trees: After the June drop of fruits of |
| these favorable conditions, the water lilies will grow so | | | | apple, plum and peach - the trees may still bear more |
| big that you won't be able to see the water for the | | | | fruit than they can carry to maturity; the excess should |
| water-lilies. | | | | be removed. Leave apples and peaches spaced 6 to |
| In a small pool landscape, if the water-lilies are grown in | | | | 8 inches apart, plums spaced 3 to 4 inches apart. |
| ordinary garden soil and placed in containers 6 x 14 | | | | Other chores to be done in the landscape: Spray the |
| inches, there will be room for two tropical varieties or | | | | roses. Sow seeds of biennials. Shear the deciduous |
| three or four hardy kinds. Waterlilies have the | | | | hedges. |
| admirable faculty of cutting their coat according to the | | | | |