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will bear a third crop. Cease pinching, let the young growths face the light, ventilate 

 freely, use fire heat only to prevent the temperature falling below 60 ; gradually inure 

 the trees to bear full exposure by increasing the ventilation, and take off the roof 

 lights in hot weather. This prevents the embryo figs getting too forward, and the 

 trees set as many fig-buds as they contain leaves for securing a full first crop after a 

 proper season of rest. Trees planted out in succession houses ought to have the points 

 of the shoots near the glass, and stopping should cease on the earliest started, in view 

 of securing a full first crop another year. Directly the first crop is finished, thin the 

 second crop liberally, syringe forcibly, and otherwise treat in swelling and ripening as 

 the first crop. 



Fourth Week in July. Ventilate thee arliest forced house of potted trees day and 

 night, remove the roof lights on showery days, thunder rain having a wonderful effect in 

 subduing red spider. Eemove any figs advanced beyond the bud. Portable trees may 

 be stood outside in a warm situation, but those intended for early forcing for the first 

 time should have the roots cut off by degrees from the fermenting material, and have 

 the wood thoroughly ripe before plunging in ashes outdoors. 



Second Week in August. When the points of the young shoots are properly ripened 

 syringe forcibly to eject red spider, removing scale with a brush dipped in a soft-soap 

 solution, 3 ounces to a gallon of tepid water. Planted-out trees started early in the 

 year require careful treatment as the nights are getting colder and more damp, and 

 ripening figs need full exposure to light, with a free circulation of warm dry air. Supply 

 water in the morning, for there must not be any check through deficiency of nourishment, 

 and ventilate liberally, affording sufficient air and warmth to prevent moisture condensing 

 on the fruit or it will be spoiled. "When the fruit is gathered, cut out the branches 

 which have reached the extremity of the trellis and elsewhere, so as to give the suc- 

 cessional growths more room, and let them grow up to the light, close tying down not 

 favouring the maturity of the points on which the first-crop figs next season are borne. 



Second Week in September. November- started pot trees having the run of a ferment- 

 ing bed may persist in growing ; such should have the roots cut through about a foot 

 from the pots, taking away the material thus detached. This will check further growth. 

 Smaller trees that require shifting into larger pots ought to be attended to. Eemove all 

 unripe fruits, and when the leaves fall, thoroughly cleanse the trees, taking care not to 

 injure the embryo figs, for, however slightly damaged, they will show it later in the 

 fruits. In succession houses useful figs may be produced some time longer and of 



