42 FRUIT CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 



tight, and well heated, it is a matter of no small diffi- 

 culty, and it is much safer to wait for the " turn of the 

 day." The other half of the set of fruiting plants of 

 which I have been treating should be kept quiet 

 till the end of February. Introduced into heat, and 

 managed in the same way as the early half, they will 

 come in as a succession lot. And, as is always likely, 

 a good many of them which the experienced eye rejected 

 while selecting the earliest, make a growth before 

 starting, and in that way still further lengthen out the 

 succession of ripe fruit from this portion of the stock. 

 For this purpose Queens are most useful in all respects, 

 and can be had in good order from May till November. 

 I have considered it the best way to follow out the 

 treatment of this one set of plants, without mixing up 

 with their management that of different sets of plants 

 necessary to supply ripe fruit in winter and spring. Of 

 these latter I wiU now speak. 



HOW TO KEEP TIP A CONSTANT SUCCESSION OF EIPE 

 FRUIT ALL THE YEAR. 



Where a regular supply of fruit has to be kept up 

 with the least possible intermission all the year round, 

 it is more certainly accomplished by potting a quantity 

 of suckers at frequent intervals. Supposing that a 

 number of suckers are potted August 1872, these will 

 give the earliest fruit for ] 874. And those that ripen in 

 September and October, give the suckers that wiU suc- 

 ceed the earliest lot, so that these two sets supply fruit 

 for six months of the twelve. The other six months of 

 winter and spring — particularly spring — are those in 

 which pines are most valued, as other fruits are then 



