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for principal batch, and cinerarias and primulag for late bloom. 

 Shift on, as it becomes necessary, those sown earlier, and do not let 

 them get pot-bound at this stage. 



Forcing. — Keep muscats going "with a little fire-heat in 

 unfavourable weather. In the late houses, where the grapes are 

 swelling, the laterals must bo kept stopped ; but where they are 

 stoning, a considerable extension of laterals can be allowed. The 

 earlier houses, from wliich the crop has been gathered, must be 

 thrown open as wide as possible, and the laterals allowed to grow 

 freely fo» a short time, to help to swell up the buds. The foliage of 

 peaches and nectarines must be washed with the syringe frequently 

 after the crop is gathered, and all the air possible admitted. 

 Cucumbers and melons must be kept well thinned out ; the former 

 should be stopped regularly at one joint beyond the fruit. The 

 fruit-bearing laterals of the melons must be allowed to grow, and the 

 others nipped oft' as fast as they make their appearance. Keep both 

 well supplied with water, and give air early in the morning, to 

 afford the foliage a chance of getting dry before the sun acts power- 

 fully upon it. 



NEW BOOKS. 



VEET nice book by Mr. Burbidge, "entitled Domestic 

 Floriculture, has been published by Messrs. Blackwood 

 and Sons. It treats of the cultivation of all the more 

 useful window and balcony plants, and the employment 

 of flowers for various decorative purposes, and contains 

 a sort of dictionary of the more useful ferns, grasses, palms, and 

 flowering plants, with brief hints on their cultivation. Mr. Bur- 

 bidge, we are bound to say, is a practical man, and writes agreeably, 

 and he has illustrated his very acceptable book with a lot of nice 



pictures. Wood and its Uses, by Messrs. Eassie, of Gloucester, 



contains a mass of most valuable information on commercial timber, 

 floorings, girders, roofing materials, joiners' work, contractors' plant, 

 horticultural structures, emigrants' huts, and other temporary 

 buildings, and tables of the strength of scantlings, etc. For such as 



need the information it olFers. it will prove invaluable. Messrs. 



F. Warne and Co. have commenced the publication of a new and 

 elegant edition of Miss Pratt's Floicering Plants and Ferns of Great 

 Britain, which is to be completed in twelve divisions. We recom- 

 mend those of our readers who want an entertaining and useful 

 British Flora, to make acquaintance with this work, for it is one of 



the best of its class, both for fulness of information and accuracy. ■ 



Will a Sewage Farm Fa jj ? by Lieut-Colonel A. S. Jones, is of course 

 intended to answer the question ])roposed in the title. It is the 

 most useful (because most practical and not at all speculative) of 

 the many pamphlets of its class that have been published within 

 the past few years. It is published by Messrs. Longmans. Mr. 



