THE GARDEN WEEK BY WEEK 



Aug. are so thick that sun and air cannot get at them, they 

 ^"^5 should be shortened. Successional vineries with the 

 fruit hanging ripe will prove a powerful attraction to 

 wasps, and means of baffling them must be resorted to, 

 or they will spoil a good deal of fruit. Perhaps the 

 simplest plan is to cover the ventilator openings with 

 hexagon netting, which large seedsmen supply. Bottles 

 containing sour beer may be hung outside the house as 

 traps. Late Grapes will be advancing towards the 

 ripening stage, but they have a good deal to do yet, and 

 careful attention should be devoted to the ventilation. 

 Close and damp down about three o'clock, and open the 

 ventilators again early the following morning. 



Ripening Figs. — Outdoor Figs will be ripening now, 

 and as the fruit is of very little flavour unless quite ripe, 

 it will have to hang for some time at the mercy of the birds 

 ^ unless netted, and 



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fastidious. When the 

 fruit is quite ripe a 

 point should be made 

 of gathering it early 

 in the morning, and 

 keeping it in a cool 

 place until the time 

 comes for it to be put 

 on the table. 



Pruning Peaches. — 

 Most Peach and Nec- 

 tarine trees under 

 glass will have been 

 and the pruning and 

 We saw a few 



Fig. 59.— Tying in Peaches. 



a. How to tie in the main branches. 



b. How to tie in the young shoots. 



cleared of their fruit by now 

 training may be proceeded with 

 weeks ago that a shoot was to be allowed to grow 

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