THE RETARDING HOUSE. 99 
other, securing the right aspect of the house, which is fully 
explained, page 37. It is also essentially requisite to give 
free ventilation, both day and night, excepting in severe 
weather, during the whole of the spring months, by which 
a cool temperature may be maintained, and the early flow 
of the sap prevented. When it is seen that the buds car 
be no longer kept from bursting, the house may be closed, 
but as it is not advisable to raise so high a temperature in 
this, as in the other successions, there ought not to be so 
much water applied, because, if it be too liberally suppliea 
in this counteraction of the natural energy, there would 
be too much moisture absorbed from the atmosphere by 
the leaves, and from the soil by the roots; the consequence 
of which would be too great a ‘cimedacanes of fluid 
matter, without an equivalent amount of carbonized and 
solid material, and hence, a plethoric ~~ of the whole 
strueture—a liability to disease—want o I 
blossoms—a bad set of inferior reste aeabe consequently, 
poor quality of badly flavored fruit. Water may, how- 
ever, be administered with discretion. According as the 
growth progresses, as it is more or less active, or the 
weather is wet and cold, or dry and hot, so let the water 
be given or withheld. When the leaves are fully develop- 
ed, the shoots stopped, mt the biessows ne expenvied, syring- 
oe 1. 
bright mornings, for, unless due uitlen be exercised 
is more likely to 
attack the Retarding House than any other, and conse- 
quently, greater vigilance is necessary. It is most gener- 
ally to oe —— while the fruit is swelling, and 
matter has become so far concen- 
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