Round the Year in the Garden 



there until September. They are then taken up and 

 repotted. When established in the flower-pots they may 

 be brought into bloom slowly or quickly, as desired, and 

 according to the warmth of the greenhouse. 



In the Fruit Garden 



Watering Fruit Trees. Fruit trees growing against 

 walls often fail to produce satisfactory crops of fruit, and 

 the gardener is at a loss to determine the cause. This 

 may frequently be traced to allowing the trees to get dry 

 at the roots in early summer. Even during winter the soil 

 close to the wall is often comparatively dry, and as spring 

 advances the roots are liable to suffer from lack of 

 moisture, unless watering is practised. Should a period of 

 dry weather set in, all trees growing against walls must 

 be thoroughly watered, otherwise the small fruits are 

 likely to fall off.' 



The same advice applies to Roses and other shrubs in 

 similar positions. 



Thinning Fruits. It often happens that hardy fruits 

 form or "set" in such numbers that it becomes necessary 

 to remove some of them. Small ones and those that are so 

 placed as unlikely to develop properly as for example 

 between a branch and the wall should be removed first. 

 It is usual to allow, on Peach and Nectarine trees, one 

 fruit to each square foot of wall space, though they are 

 not necessarily evenly distributed. Such as Apple, Pear, 

 and Plum, of which the fruits are in clusters, must be 

 thinned as common sense dictates ; it is a mistake to allow 

 a tree to bear an abnormally heavy crop. Disbudding 

 must be continued, especially with Peach, Nectarine, and 

 Morello Cherry, though it is an excellent plan to look over 

 all fruit trees occasionally at this season and to remove 

 superfluous shoots. If this were done more frequently 

 fruit trees would not become full of weak, useless 



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