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winter should be carefully examined, and if the berries 

 are at all likely to be too thick when they attain their 

 full size, thitt them a little more. Muscats, even in the most 

 favoured localities, should still be fired at night, to keep the 

 minimum night heat from falling below 75°, and the atmos- 

 phere from becoming stagnant and unwholesome. Leave a 

 little air on all vineries throughout the night, especially as 

 soon as the grapes show the first signs of colouring. Eemove 

 all fresh lateral growths as they appear. Stop young vines 

 intended to bear next year, when they reach the top of the 

 house, and their lateral growth confined to two leaves 

 from each joint, one of which may be removed when the 

 wood begins to get brown. It is not yet too late to plant 

 vines struck from eyes this spring. If borders can be pre- 

 pared for them any time this month, they wUl run the whole 

 length of the roof, and make fine vines next year. If pot- 

 vines have been forwarded as directed, they wiU now be 

 strong canes, with fuU buds, and their wood changing to a 

 brownish hue. Give them an increased circulation of air : 

 do not allow them to make any fresh lateral growths, and see 

 that they are fully exposed to the sun ; for unless their 

 growth be thoroughly hard and well ripened, no great suc- 

 cess can be counted on in the way of fruit from them next 

 year. 



Peaches. — Give fruit that are colouring abundance of air 

 night and day, and see that none of them are shaded with 

 leaves. Copiously water with manure-water, and mulch the 

 surface of the borders of those swelling off their fruit, and 

 syringe them freely on fine afternoons till they begin to change 

 colour, after which syringe no more till the fruit are aU 

 gathered. Let no amount of care and trouble be con- 

 sidered too much in order to keep the foliage of the 

 early trees from which the fruit are all gathered healthy and 

 clean. Keep them cool, and mix a little flower of sulphur in 

 the water with which they are syringed. This is an excellent 

 preventive of red-spider, and peaches seem to like sulphur 

 about their leaves. Attend to the borders, and see that they 



