256 THE FLORIST. 



Mixed Greenhouse. — See last month's Calendar. 



Peach House. — When the crop is gathered go over the trees and cut 

 out all the wood not required for next year's bearing, tying in that left 

 neatly, for it to have the benefit of sun and air ; by this plan your wood 

 will ripen much better, and leaving only what is required for bearing, 

 will materially strengthen. Keep the house rather hot on bright days, 

 and give all the air you can by night till the wood assumes a brownish 

 tinge, when the sashes may be taken off entirely. If the wood does not 

 ripen kindly, through over luxuriance or owing to wet or dull weather, 

 employ fire heat by day to assist the process. The foundation for next 

 year's crop must be laid now, and the most important of all things to 

 ensure success next year is well ripened wood. 



Pines. — Directly the principal part of the summer crop is cut, 

 preparations must be made for refilling the pits with plants to fruit 

 next season. If grown on the planting out system all the exhausted 

 soil should be removed, and as the plants are turned out the spaces 

 between them should be filled in vdth fresh compost. When grown in 

 pots the forwardest successions should at once be placed in their fruiting 

 pots, and arranged as near the glass as possible in the fruiting pit ; in 

 both cases a little additional bottom heat should be applied after, to give 

 the plants a start in the new soil, and they should be kept rather closer 

 for a week for the like purpose. Afterwards give air plentifully ; fire 

 heat will hardly be necessary this month except the weather becomes 

 very wet. Winter fruit should be encouraged to swell by a moist 

 temperature, and attention to the state of the roots as regards heat and 

 moisture. Pot on the young stuff and suckers, &c., for growing on. 



Pinks. — Prepare a bed free from wireworm for transplanting the 

 young stock as soon as rooted. Pipings may still be put in of those 

 sorts that are scarce or shy to produce cuttings. The late, or what is 

 termed "water grass," strikes freely. 



Roses. — The branches that have flowered should now be shortened, 

 and the strong shoots some of the Hybrid Perpetuals throw up in the 

 summer should also be pruned to half their length to ensure a late 

 bloom, and, as a rule, all blossoms should be cut with long stems. 

 Where budding is to be performed this is the most favourable season, 

 and well ripened short jointed cuttings of Hybrid Perpetuals and 

 Bourbons may now be planted in the open ground. 



Strawberries. — ^The young runners either layered in pots or the open 

 beds for forcing should now be transferred to their fruiting pots. Now 

 is the best time for forming new plantations ; select the best loamy 

 piece of ground you have ; trench this two feet deep, and add a liberal 

 supply of manure, well mixing the whole together. When the surface 

 becomes dry fork in very shallow some well decomposed dung or leaf- 

 soil. The runners, which should have been layeied for the purpose, 

 should now be carefully transplanted with their balls of roots entire ; 

 the stronger growing sorts should be planted not less than three feet 

 between the rows, and 18 inches from plant to plant ; for the weaker 

 growing ones a less distance wiU suffice. Water freely when the weather 

 is dry, and keep them clean ; a good crop may thus be obtained the 

 first season. 



