42 FRUIT CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 



is injurious to the progress of the young plants. To 

 say the least of it, it is attended with a loss of time. 



When it is desirable to have the fruiting plants of 

 which I am now treating to ripen earlier than the 

 beginning of June, they must, of course, have heat 

 applied to them in I)ecember instead of January ; 

 and with properly constructed and heated pineries 

 there is nothing to prevent this. But where the 

 houses are not light, tight, and well heated, it is a 

 matter of no small difficulty, and it is much safer to 

 wait for the " turn of the day." The other half of 

 the set of fruiting plants of which I have been treat- 

 ing should be kept quiet till the end of February. 

 Introduced into heat, and managed in the same way 

 as the early half, they will come in as a succession 

 lot. And, as is always likely, a good many of them 

 which the experienced eye rejected while selecting the 

 earliest, make a growth before starting, and in that 

 way still further lengthen out the succession of ripe 

 fruit from this portion of the stock. For this purpose 

 Queens are most useful in all respects, and can be 

 had in good order from May till November. 



I have considered it the best way to follow out the 

 treatment of this one set of plants, without mixing iip 

 with their management that of different sets of plants 

 necessary to supply ripe fruit in winter and spring. 

 Of these latter I wUl now speak. 



HOW TO KEEP UP A CONSTANT SUCCESSION Or RIPE 

 FRUIT ALL THE YEAR. 



Where a regular supply of fruit has to be kept up 

 with the least possible intermission all the year round, 

 it is more certainly accomplished by potting a quan- 



