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JULY. 



intended for a later supply. When potted, 

 place them in an open situation exposed 

 to the sun, placing them on boards, or a 

 prepared bottom, to prevent worms from 

 getting to the roots. 



July. Glasshouses for Fruit, 

 &c. 



/jt^y. Trees that are swelling off their 

 second crop should be assisted with liquid 

 manure freely, more especially if growing 

 in pots or tubs. As the fruit ripens, care 

 must be taken to preserve them from 

 damp, which the frequent syringing to 

 keep down insects induces ; it should, 

 therefore, be a rule to look over and pick 

 the ripe fruit every morning, and syringe 

 directly afterwards. Admit air freely, and 

 pinch out the points of the young wood 

 when grown sufficiently long. This will 

 assist the swelling of the fruit, and produce 

 useful spurs for bearing next year. It 

 should be a rule so to manage figs during 

 the summer, that nothing further than a 

 slight thinning out should be wanted in 

 the winter pruning. 



Nectarines and Peaches. Any tendency 

 to decay of the leaves when the fruit has 

 been gathered should be prevented by 

 syringing and watering the roots. Fruit 

 coming to maturity will be all the more 

 delicious for a comparatively cool tem- 

 perature while ripening. Examine daily 

 and gather before it is over-ripe. The 

 great object now is to get the wood 

 properly ripened j and that will be best 

 promoted by a full exposure to the sun, 

 the air, the rain, and the dews, by remov- 

 ing the sashes and top lights. 



Pinery. Plants Ripening Fruit. Still 

 continue to supply fruit swelling with water, 

 and syringe frequently, but not during bright 

 sunshine, unless the shading is immediately 

 put on. Young plants growing fast will 

 require liberal waterings, in addition to 

 ftir in large quantities by day; the tem- 



perature will allow them to have a good 

 portion by night. During hot weather 

 forced fruits of all descriptions will be 

 benefited by this practice. 



Pines for Autumn and Winter Fruit- 

 ing. About the second week, the plants 

 selected in the spring for autumn and 

 winter fruiting will be showing fruit ; 

 and if they are in a pit by themselves, 

 will require, if a steady bottom heat is 

 kept up, but little attention for some time, 

 except slight shading, plenty of air, and a 

 liberal allowance of water. On no account, 

 however, let the plants be wetted while in 

 bloom. Some pines having large flowers, 

 as the Jamaica, &c., frequently cut up with 

 black spots in the middle, although ap- 

 parently sound outside, which arises from 

 a small quantity of water passing through 

 the bloom to the fruit cells, and causing 

 the latter to decay. 



Pines for Succession* Let succession 

 plants have abundance of air day and 

 night, to encourage a stocky growth, and 

 water freely when the pots become full of 

 roots. Keep the bottom heat steady. At 

 this season the young staff" may be potted 

 whenever they require a shift. Where it 

 is intended to plant out the fruiting stock 

 for next year, a sufficient quantity of loam, 

 peat, and sand should be in readiness for 

 use. Directly the present crop is cut, the 

 stump should be cleared out, and either 

 all or part of the soil removed, according 

 as it may appear exhausted. 



Pits t Management of. As soon as the 

 principal part of the present crop is ripe, 

 the pit will most likely be required either 

 for fruiting the winter stock, or for the 

 succession intended for next season's fruit- 

 ing. Whatever fruit, therefore, may yet 

 remain to ripen should be carefully re- 

 moved to one. end of the pit, unless cir- 

 cumstances enable you to transfer them to 

 a house devoted to fruiting the autumn 

 | and winter supply, in which case the house 



