CALENDAR. 297 



SEPTEMBER. 



Pines. — Smooth Cayennes, and other varieties that are 

 most suitable for autumn and winter supply, will now he 

 swelling rapidly, and should have every encouragement and 

 attention. A top-dressing of horse-droppings wiU assist in 

 stimulating them, and in keeping them uniformly moist at 

 the root. Water them with weak guano-water every time 

 they require watering, and keep the atmosphere moist. Shut 

 up early in the afternoon, with sun-heat to a temperature of 

 90° for a time, allowing it to fall to 75° by 10 o'clock p.m. 

 Syringe them overhead at shutting-up time, when the weather 

 is bright, but avoid the crowns as much as possible with the 

 syringe. Give late Queens that are colouring a free circula- 

 tion of warm dry air about them, and keep them dry at the 

 root. Should more ripen at one time than are required, re- 

 move the plants to a cool dry room, where they will keep in 

 good condition for two or three weeks, and so keep up a suc- 

 cession of fruit. "Now is a good time to put in a second lot 

 of suckers, from plants which have ripened and are ripening 

 their fruit. Plunge them in a bottom-heat of 85°, and keep 

 the air at about 70°. If the soil is moist when they are potted, 

 water will not be necessary till they have formed roots an 

 inch long. Dew them lightly overhead every fine day when 

 shut up, and give air more Uberally after they have 'rooted 

 and commenced to grow, and avoid crowding them in the 

 bed. The stock of plants that are intended to start into 

 fruit at the commencement of the year, will now require care- 

 ful management. No more water should be given than is 

 sufficient to keep them from suffering either from aridity of 

 atmosphere or over-dryness of soil. Give a liberal supply of 

 air on fine days. By the end of the month they should be in 

 as complete a state of rest as is possible. 65° wiU be a night 

 temperature sufficiently high to begin October with, and it 

 should be gradually lowered to this as the nights lengthen 

 and become more cold. Those plants that are intended to 

 start next spring, as a succession to those just referred to, 



