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two leaves from each joint, one of 

 which may be removed when the wood 

 begins to get brown. Care, however, 

 must be exercised in so doing, that the 

 main bud intended to bear next year's 

 crop does not start. If there be any 

 signs of this, let them make lateral 

 growth to counteract it. Vines planted 

 and intended to be cut down this 

 year, should be allowed to make as 

 much growth as there is room for, 

 without crowding their foliage, as the 

 more they grow this season, the more 

 strongly rooted they become, and the 

 finer their next year's growth. It is 

 not yet too late to plant Vines struck 

 from eyes this spring. If borders can 

 be prepared for them any time this 

 month, they will run the whole length 

 of the roof, and make fine Vines next 

 year. If pot Vines have been for- 

 warded as directed in former Calendars, 

 they will now be strong canes, with full 

 buds, and their wood changing to a 

 brownish hue. Give them an increased 

 circulation of air ; do not allow them 

 to make any fresh lateral growths, and 

 see that they are fully exposed to 

 the sun ; for unless their growth be 

 thoroughly hard and well ripened, no 

 great success can be counted on in the 

 way of fruit from them next year. 



Peaches. — Give fruit that are colour- 

 ing abundance of air night and day, 

 and see that none of them are shaded 

 with leaves. Copiously water with 

 manure-water, and mulch the surface 

 of the boi'ders of those swelling off their 

 fruit, and syringe them freely on fiue 

 afternoons till they begin to change 

 colour, after which syringe no more 

 till the fruit are all gathered. Let no 

 amount of care and trouble be con- 

 sidei'ed too much in order to keep the 

 foliage of the early trees from which 

 the fruit are all gathered healthy and 

 clean. Keep them cool, and mix a 

 little flower of sulphur in the water 

 with which they are syringed. This 

 is an excellent preventive of red- 

 spider, and Peaches seem to like sul- 

 phur about their leaves. Attend to 

 the borders, and see that they do not 

 become too dry and crack. Attend 

 carefully to the growths of young 

 growing trees, and tie them in their 

 proper places, avoiding crowding them. 

 Figs. — Where fruit are ripening cease 

 syringing, and give a free circulation of 

 warm dry air. Where the first crop is 

 all gathered, and a second advancing, 

 see that the trees are well fed. Give 

 the border a mulching of rich manure, 



and water copiously. This of course 

 applies to plants that are in large pots, 

 or that have their roots cramped in a 

 limited border, circumstances under 

 which Figs bear most freely. The 

 syringe must be used freely every fine 

 afternoon to prevent red-spider, except, 

 of course, where fruit are ripening. 

 Figs are not fit for table till they have 

 ripened into a soft pulpy condition, 

 and are almosc ready to drop from their 

 stalks. 



Melons. — See last month's directions 

 respecting ripening crops, and former 

 calendars as to the training and stopping 

 of growing plants. Melons, especially 

 those now swelling their fruit, require 

 much more water than is good for 

 thetn when the days are shorter, and 

 the sun less powerful ; but at the same 

 time avoid frequent dribblets, and give 

 a few thorough soakings instead. Keep 

 the surface of the soil fresh, and pre- 

 vent its cracking — or fill up the cracks, 

 should they occur, with fine soil, A 

 final watering should be given before 

 the fruit begins to ripen, putting a thin 

 Inyer of Mushroom-dung over the sur- 

 face of the bed. Remove all superfluous 

 growths, and slightly syringe the foliage 

 on fine afternoons up till the time the 

 fruit begins to ripen, then keep the 

 house or pit dry, give more air, and ex- 

 pose the fruit to the sun. Plant out 

 for a late crop about the middle of the 

 month. Melons may be planted later, 

 and ripened late in autumn, but they 

 are seldom much worth, and it is not 

 generally done. 



Cucumbers. — Water those in full 

 i bearing copiously with manure-water. 

 Piemove all old and tarnished foliage 

 and unproductive wood as fast as they 

 can be replaced with that which is 

 young and healthy. Syringe regularly 

 on fine afternoons, and shut up with 

 strong sun-heat, so as to do with as 

 little fire-heat as possible. In the south 

 they do well at this season in cold frames, 

 but in Scotland they ai e precarious and 

 shortlived without more or less fire- 

 heat. 



Strawberries in Pots. — See last 

 month's Calendar, All should be in 

 their fruiting-pots by the middle of this 

 month at the latest ; earlier if possible. 

 Stand them where worms cannot molest 

 them. Give them plenty of room. Re- 

 move all runners as they appear, and 

 see that they never suffer from want of 

 water. Syringe or water them over- 

 head through a rose-pot every evening 

 when the weather is hot and dry. 



