Round the Year in the Garden 



the bunch of grapes. Other secondary growths, called 

 sub-laterals, will form and should be " stopped " as soon as 

 one leaf has formed. Otherwise the trellis will become 

 covered with a thicket of useless shoots. 



If Peach trees were disbudded as has been advised, 

 some of the new shoots will be long enough to tie down to 

 the trellis there ought to be only two or three on each of 

 the older shoots. They must be tied parallel with the 

 existing stems which they are destined to replace. Except 

 when the fruit trees are in flower, the atmosphere of the 

 glasshouse must be kept moist by syringing once or twice 

 a day. The ventilators should be opened slightly early in 

 the morning, wider still as the day advances, and closed 

 between three and four o'clock in the afternoon. 



Melons and Cucumbers that were raised from seed 

 last month may now be planted in a bed of soil on a 

 hotbed in a frame or they can be grown in larger pots in 

 the greenhouse. Melons like turfy soil, Cucumbers half 

 loam and half leafmould. A little soil should be placed 

 over the roots in the form of a mound, this being added to 

 as the roots show through. When the plants are about 

 9 inches high the points are pinched out to cause side 

 shoots to grow, and on these the fruits will form. It is 

 necessary to fertilise the female flowers of the Melon with 

 pollen from the staminate or male flowers to obtain fruits ; 

 this ought only to be done when several female blooms 

 are open at the same time, otherwise the fruits will 

 be of irregular size. 



In the Kitchen Garden 



Runner Beans may now be sown out of doors in 

 deeply - prepared and enriched soil ; place the seeds 

 about 2 inches deep, and thin the seedlings to 6 inches 

 apart. The rows ought to be 5 feet apart. Prizewinner 

 and Hackwood Park Success are excellent varieties. 



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