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degrees to the maximum by 12 o'clock. Let vines from 

 wMch the fruit is aU cut he kept cool, and their foliage weU 

 syringed occasionally, to keep them free from red-spider, and 

 their foliage in health as long as possible. Thin all grapes 

 immediately they are fit for the scissors, as feuit advance so 

 quickly at this season that they soon get larger and thicker 

 than they ought to be T^hen thinned. K not already done, 

 pot-vines intended for fruiting early next year shoiild be 

 shifted into their fruiting-pots. 



Peaches. — Where the early crop is all gathered, give the 

 trees a thorough washing with clean water through the engine, 

 and continue to sjTinge or engine them two or three times a- 

 week, to keep the foliage fresh and free from insects through- 

 out the heat of summer. If the border is dry, let it also 

 have a good watering, and keep everything connected with 

 them tidy and clean. The starving of early-forced trees with 

 the idea of ripening them is injurious to them. Keep them 

 cool by giving an abundant supply of air at front and top. 

 Where fruit are swelling off, continue to syringe the trees on 

 the afternoons of fine days, shutting them up early and keep- 

 ing the temperature to 65°, as a minimum, with as little fire- 

 heat as possible. Tie in the growths and thin the fruit of 

 later houses ; and wherever fire - heat is applied, keep up 

 atmospheric moisture in proportion. 



Figs. — So soon as the first crop is gathered from early 

 trees, give them a heavy watering with liquid manure and 

 mulch with short dung, so as to support the second crop now 

 showing. Syringe freely on fine afternoons, and sprinkle the 

 border and paths frequently in course of bright days, for figs 

 delight in a moist atmosphere. Top-dress those in pots now 

 swelling their second crop, and water freely with guano- 

 water, and syringe the trees vigorously to keep down red- 

 spider. 



Melons. — Plant out a quantity for August supply. Give 

 them a good depth of soil ; a heavy loam with a very little 

 old cow-manure mixed with it is best, especially after this 



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