306, FRUIT CULTLfRE UNDER GLASS. 



pKed. Give a little air on all favourable occasions. Keep 

 young growths regularly stopped, and do not allow any 

 crowding of foliage. If green-fly attack them, destroy it 

 by two moderate smotings with tobacco on two consecutive 

 nights. 



Strawberries in Pots. — These should now be plunged in 

 cold frames, or removed to cold late peach-houses, where they 

 wiU be sheltered from rains. Or where no such protection 

 can be made available for them, build them into stacks, 

 laying the pots on their sides with the plants outwards, and 

 fill up the space between them with ashes or sawdust. Put 

 up in this way, they can readily be protected from severe 

 frost by throwing mats or litter over them. 



DECEMBER. 



Pines: — ^Early autumn-potted suckers that are well rooted, 

 and wintering in dry light pits or houses, with bottom-heat 

 supplied by hot-water pipes, wiU require to be carefully ex- 

 amined at intervals, and watered before they become " dusty" 

 dry. This must be guarded against by watering those that 

 require it at intervals. This applies most forcibly to a time 

 of cold weather, when more firing is required to keep up the 

 proper temperature, which should now be at its minimum, 

 the days being generally sunless and short. Toung stock 

 winter with the best results at a temperatiire not exceed- 

 ing 55° for at least six weeks at the dullest part of the year. 

 At this season, when autumn fruit has been mostly cut, more 

 room can generally be given to young stock. Where early 

 pines are an object, a number of the earliest and most likely 

 to start should now be subjected to a temperature of 70° at 

 night, with 8° or 10° more when there is a blink of sun by 

 day, the bottom-heat to be kept ranging from 85° to 90°. 

 They wiU be dry at the root, and require to be watered, after 

 being a few days in the temperature named. Keep the at- 

 mosphere generally moist, but not to such an extent as will 

 cause condensed moisture to fall into the centre of the plants. 



