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chance of becoming strong before winter, to bear abundantly next year. Continue 

 to bud stone fruit trees, for orchard and pot culture. Thin out weak spray on all 

 bush fruits, and foreright shoots on wall fruits. Maiden trees intended to be 

 trained should be stopped, to make them break into side shoots, as a whole 

 season's growth is thus saved. Rub off useless shoots on vines. Thin all fruit of 

 which fine berries are required, either for exhibition or dessert. 



GEEEXHOtJSE AND STOVE. 



The last lot of pelargoniums will be turned out this month, after being cut 

 dowD, and must be kept rather dry till they begin to break, and then be syringed 

 frequently. Shifc all greenhouse plants required to bloom late, and stop any that 

 are rather too forward. Cinerarias for winter bloom should have good culture 

 dow. Camellias may be repotted any time this month, but must have very small 

 shifts. As pines colour, keep them rather dry; pines shy of fruiting may be 

 induced to fruit by having water withheld from them, so as to check them for 

 awhile, and then be well soaked, and kept warm and moist, and they will be 

 pretty sure to fruit freely. In vineries, give plenty of liquid manure to plants 

 swelling their fruit, and be careful to keep the bunches shaded with a few leaves, 

 by tying the laterals over where necessary. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Peae Tbees. — J. B. T. — Your trees have no doubt sent their roots down 

 into an ungenial soil, and are touched with premature decay. When you cut 

 in the roots, you should also have mulched the surface round the stems with 

 rotten duDg to induce a growth of surface fibres. We should advise you to cut 

 close in a selected number of branches this season to get breaks next spring ; this 

 would produce a new set to be regularly laid iD, and next year we should cut in 

 another lot, and so renew the whole of the wood in the course of time ; but if the 

 trees were ours we should plant new ones, and plant them on platforms made by 

 taking out the soil, so as to form a circle of six feet diameter and three feet deep. 

 A layer of brick-bats, stones, chalk, cinders, or any other kind of paving material 

 is then to be thrown in a foot deep and rammed hard, and the whole tilled with 

 good loam, without manure. This should be done early, to allow the earth to 

 settle well before planting. Perhaps something might be done with your present 

 trees, towards promoting the formation of fruit buds for next season, by nipping 

 out at once the point ot every side shoot, and of course cleaning away all super- 

 abundant growth. This advice, however, is given in ignorance of the aspect in 

 which the trees are planted, the nature of the soil and climate, and the position of 

 trees in respect to each other. 



Geeenhouse Plants in Autumn. — Zinnia. — The best plants to make your 

 greenhouse gay, during the next few months, would be Scarlet Salvias, double 

 Petunias, Senecios, Crassulas, Abronias, Gesnerias, Statioallalfordii, Brugmansias, 

 Erica puk-hella, Asters, Balsams, Clintonia pulchella, and any showy annuals 

 sown in June. Later in the season Pompone Chrysanthemums will come in, and 

 make the stages very gay. 



Agave Ameuicana.— Subscriber. — All the Aloes require a soil composed of 

 rich loam, a little old dry choppy dung, leaf-mould, and a good admixture of 

 broken crocks, lumpy charcoal, and brick rubbish. The pots should be well 

 drained with large crocks at the bottom, then a layer of smaller ones, and then 

 ■ome of the roughest of the soil. They are propagated by suckers, which may be 

 taken oil' now it of moderate size, and stuck in sandy peat and loam with bottom 

 heat. They like sun, and during summer plenty of water ; iu winter very little, 

 or none; at all. Broken leaves may bo cut off close with a sharp knife, but the 

 less t hi: planta are cut or injured, the better. Do not shift to larger pots unless 

 tin' pots are already full of roots; but if they really require more room, shift at 

 once without breaking the ball, and give plenty of water and shade for a week. 

 July. 



