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now he more than for early crops, as it is very undesirable to 

 be obliged to water often •when the fruit is swelling. As 

 soon as the fruit begin to' ripen give more air, and no more 

 water at the root. 



Cucumbers. — Plant out for late summer and autumn sup- 

 plies. Those now in full bearing will require copious supplies 

 of water, and if from long-continued bearing they should 

 show signs of flagging energy, top-dress the bed with well- 

 decayed manure. Keep thrip, green-fly, and red-spider at bay 

 by the prescribed preventives and remedies. Those that have 

 been in bearing all winter may, if others are sufficiently ad- 

 vanced to keep up the supply, be torn out and their place 

 occupied with melons, or, if required, planted again for cu- 

 cumbers. 



Straroberries. — Those will now be very troublesome with 

 red-spider should the weather be hot, and particularly if the 

 plants are standing on shelves, and, except when ripening, 

 will require to be regularly syringed on fine afternoons. AU. 

 plants that are now done bearing may, after being properly 

 hardened, be planted out in well-trenched and manured soil, to 

 give runners for another year's supply, and also to bear out- 

 doors next year, for which they are invaluable. 



JUNE. 



Pines. — Succession stock will now have well taken with 

 their shift, and make rapid progress, and will require careful 

 management to prevent them from making a soft watery, 

 growth on the one hand, and on the other from a wiry weakly 

 growth. Give just enough of water to keep the soil regularly 

 moist without being sloppy ; and instead of syringing the 

 plants heavily overhead and about their centres, rather damp 

 the surface of the plunging material, and just dew the plants 

 gently overhead through a fine rose. They may now be 

 more freely aired, opening the ventilators and shutting them 

 gradually. The fires may be allowed to go out, or nearly, 

 so, ia steady hot' weather, but always kindle or set them 



