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tings that are young and healthy. Plant out in sandy soil the young 

 stock, as soon as rooted. 



P each-forcing . — When the fruit is all gathered in the early house, 

 give the trees a few good heavy syringiiigs to clear them of red spider, 

 &c. ; keep the foliage in a good healthy state as long as possible ; by 

 tliis means the v\rood will be properly ripened, and this is a point of the 

 utmost importance, as on it depends in a great measure the success or 

 failure ot next season's crop. When late crops of fruit are swelling, 

 water must be supplied liberally, and where it is ripening it should be 

 withheld. 



Pelargoniums. — We are fast approaching the general cutting down. 

 Before doing this the plants should be gradually dried off. It is better, 

 both for the young wood intended for cuttings, as well as for the old 

 stool. Seed should be sown as soon as ripe enough. There have been 

 some fine new things shown this season by the principal raisers. 

 Foster, Hoyle, Beck, and Turner have each exhibited some very 

 promising seedlings. There appears to be a never-dying interest in 

 this most showy and most interesting greenhouse plant. Nothing, 

 certainly, can exceed the beauty of a well-grown house of Pelargoniums. 

 Fancy varieties may be cut down also, and used generally pretty much 

 hke the large-flowered kinds. The cuttings, when put in, should be 

 longer, or they are liable to dry up. They will break up at the bottom 

 — the plants will not be long. 



Pinks. — The bloom in the south will be drawing to a close ; the late 

 varieties are, however, good yet, as well as in colder districts. The 

 bloom has been very fine. Tlie showers experienced during May and 

 the early part of June have caused them to lace beautifully. Cardinal, 

 New Criterion, Sovereign, Purity, Mrs. Norman, Adonis, Mrs. Stevens, 

 Mr. Stubbs, Kuh-i-noor, Criterion, Brunette, James Hogg, have been 

 very finely exhibited. Finish putting in cuttings with all dispatch, in 

 the ordinary manner, under small glasses with a little bottom heat. 



Pleasure Ground. — Rolling, mowing, and sweeping are, at this 

 season, the principal matters to be attended to ; and, if the weather be 

 showery, they will often require doing, to keep up anything like an 

 appearance of order and neatness. 



Roses. — Where our previous directions respecting searching for 

 maggots and destroying them have been neglected, the large number of 

 the earliest flowers rendered imperfect is now apparent, and will, we 

 trust, be a lesson for the future. We never remember, either, so much 

 destruction being committed by the maggot, which bores the young shoots. 

 Where the ends of them are seen to flag, let them be cut off" below the 

 perforated part and trodden under foot. If fine blooms are required, the 

 buds must be thinned and copious doses of liquid manure freely adminis- 

 tered. When the sun is powerful, shading will be requisite. This may be 

 easily done by means of hoops of split hazel or willow, with cross 

 pieces to foi-m a dome, being covered with thin calico or paper, and 

 fixed in a couple of cleft sticks, the flowers being tied so as to pr-event 

 rubbing. In pots, where flowers are over, they should be cut back, 

 plunged in aslies, liberally top-dressed with decayed manure, and 

 watered as frequently as dry weather may render necessary. 



