Divide the roots, and plant out suckers, or offsets of perennial border plants.  Make cuttings and sow seeds of biennials, as required; also a few annuals to be hereafter transplanted.  Sow also Geraniums.  Continue making pipings of Carnation, plant out, or transplant hardy perennials into the borders.

AUGUST.

This may be considered the best time for sowing the seeds of hardy shrubs.  Plant out Aralia, Canella, Magnolia, and other ornamental trees.  Transplant delicate and exotic shrubs.  Remove, and plant out suckers, and layers of hardy shrubs.  Prune all shrubs freely.

Divide, and plant out suckers, and offsets of hardy perennials, that have formed during the rains.  Plant out tender perennial plants, in the borders, also biennials.  Prune, and thin out perennial plants in the borders.  Put out in the borders such annuals as were sown in June, protecting them from the heat of the sun in the afternoon.  Sow a few early annuals.  Plant out Dahlia tubers where they are intended to blossom, keeping them as much as possible in classes of colors.  Make pipings of Carnations.

SEPTEMBER.

Prick out the cuttings of hardy shrubs that have been made before, or during the rains, in beds for growing.  Prune all flowering shrubs, having due regard to the character of each, as bearing flowers on the end of the shoots, or from the side exits, give the annual dressing of manure to the entire shrubbery, with new upper soil.

Remove the top soil from the borders, and renew with addition of a moderate quantity of manure.  Put out Geraniums into the borders, and set rooted cuttings singly in pots.  Plant out biennials in the borders, also such annuals as have been sown in pots.  Re-pot and give fresh earth to plants in the shed.

OCTOBER.

Open out the roots of a few Bussorah roses for early flowering, pruning down all the branches to a height of six inches, removing all decayed, and superannuated wood, dividing the roots, and pruning them freely.  The Madras roses should be treated in the same manner, not all at the same time, but at intervals of a week between each cutting down, so as to secure a succession for blossoming.  Plant out rooted cuttings in beds, to increase in size.

Sow annuals freely, and thin out those put in last month, so as to leave sufficient space for growing, at the same time transplanting the most healthy to other parts of the border.

NOVEMBER.

Continue opening the roots of Bussorah roses, as well as the Rose Edward, and Madras roses, for succession to those on which this operation was performed last month.  Prune, and trim the Sweetbriar, and Many-flowered rose.

Flower-Garden—­Divide, and plant bulbs of all kinds, both, for border, and pot flowering.  Continue to sow annuals.