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manure -water. Remove all old and tarnished foliage and 

 unproductive wood as fast as they can be replaced with 

 that which is young and healthy. Syringe regularly on fine 

 afternoons, and shut up with strong sun-heat, so as to do 

 with as little fire-heat as possible. In the south they do well 

 at this season in cold frames, but in Scotland they are pre- 

 carious and short-lived without more or less fire-heat. 



Strawberries in Pots. All should be in their fruiting-pots 

 by the middle of this month at the latest earlier if possible. 

 Place them where worms cannot molest them. Give them 

 plenty of room. Remove all runners as they appear, and 

 see that they never suffer from want of water. Syringe or 

 water them overhead through a rose-pot every evening when 

 the weather is hot and dry. 



AUGUST. 



fines. That portion of the stock which are intended for 

 early summer supply next year, should, by the end of this 

 month, have their pots well filled with roots, and be of a 

 stocky well-matured growth. If kept growing late into the 

 autumn, there is little certainty of getting them to start in 

 time to yield ripe fruit next May and June. Care must be 

 taken, while inducing a stubby well-matured growth and a 

 pot full of roots, that the plants do not suffer from dryness 

 at root and an arid atmosphere ; and though towards the end 

 of the month moisture requires to be decreased, avoid by all 

 means the "drying- off" system. Those intended to start, 

 after making a growth in spring, must still be encouraged to 

 grow, and be managed as directed for succession plants last 

 month. Smooth Cayennes, and other late varieties now out 

 of bloom and swelling off, encourage with waterings of guano- 

 water, a moist atmosphere, and a high temperature in the 

 afternoon and evening when sun-heat can be stored. Fruit 



