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The fires, if any are made at this season, should 

 be very moderate. The flaes sliould never be heat- 

 ed so as to feel much warmer than the hand after 

 having been kept a few minutes in the bosom, 

 that is to say, they should seldom be above blood- 

 heat, or wliat is termed milk-warm. But a more 

 proper time for the application of fire-heat to fined 

 walls, is the latter-end of summer, and in autumn ; 

 and that in order to mature the fruit, to further the 

 growth of, and perfectly ripen the shoots, that they 

 may the better produce a crop next season. See 

 this subject resumed in August. 



The management of the trees, in other respects, 

 differs nothing from that of nectarines and peaches 

 on common walls, treated of throughout the Fruit 

 Garden, except that the foliage must be more fre- 

 quently and severely scourged by the garden en- 

 gine, in order to keep down the red-spider, which, 

 on account of the application of fire-heat, will breed 

 more plentifully here than on trees trained against 

 other walls. 



THE PINERY. 



Of the Nursing and Succession Pits,. 



The respective temperatures of tliese compart- 

 ments of the pinery are to be continued, as direct- 

 ed last montli ; and air should be freely admitted 

 every day, in the manner there noticed for the fruit- 



