==Mushrooms== may be prepared for now.  The first step towards success is to accumulate a long heap of horse-droppings with the least possible amount of litter.  Let this ferment moderately, and turn it two or three times, always making a long heap of it, which keeps down the fermentation.  When the fire is somewhat taken out of it, make up the bed with a mixture of about four parts of the fermented manure and one part of turfy loam, well incorporated.  Beat the stuff together with the flat of the spade as the work proceeds, fashioning the bed in the form of a ridge about three feet wide at the base, and of any length that may be convenient.  Give the work a neat finish, or the Mushrooms will certainly not repay you.  Put in rather large lumps of spawn when the bed is nicely warm, cover with a thin layer of fine soil, and protect with mats or clean straw.  This is a quick and easy way of growing Mushrooms, and by commencing now the season is all before one.  Nine times in ten, people begin preparations for Mushroom growing about a month too late, for the spawn runs during the hot weather, and the crop rises when the moderate autumnal temperature sets in.

==Onions== to be sown for salading.  Forward beds of large sorts to be thinned in good time.  The best Onions for keeping are those of moderate size, perfectly ripened; therefore the thinning should not be too severe.

==Peas== may still be sown, and as the season advances preference should be given to quick-growing early varieties.

==Turnips== may be sown in variety and in quantity after Midsummer Day.  Sow on well-prepared ground, and put a sprinkle of artificial manure in the drills with the seed.  By hastening the early growth of the plant the fly is kept in check.

==July==

For gardeners July is in one respect like January; everything depends on the weather.  It may be hot, with frequent heavy rains, and vegetation in the most luxuriant growth; or the earth may be iron and the heavens brass, with scarcely a green blade to be seen.  The light flying showers that usually occur in July do not render watering unnecessary; in fact, a heavy soaking of a crop after a moderate rainfall is a valuable aid to its growth, for it requires a long-continued heavy downpour to penetrate to the roots.

==Summer-sown Vegetables for Autumn and Winter use.== As the month advances early crops will be finished and numerous plots of ground become vacant.  In many gardens it is now the practice to sow in July and August seeds of quick-growing varieties of Vegetables and Salads to furnish supplies through the autumn and early winter months, and this system is strongly to be commended.  These sowings not only increase the cropping capacity of the garden but they extend the use of many favourite Vegetables which from spring sowings customarily cease at the end of summer.  Two things are essential to success. =Early-maturing varieties only should be sown and the plants must be