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Cucumbers. — Plant out for late summer and autumn sup- 

 plies. Those now in full bearing will require copious sup- 

 lies of water, and if from long-continued bearing tbey should 

 show signs of flagging energy, top-diess the bed with well- 

 decayed manure. Keep thrip, green-fly, and rgd-spider at 

 bay by the prescribed preventives and remedies. Those that 

 have been in bearing all winter may, if others are sufficiently 

 advanced to keep up the supply, be torn out and their place 

 occupied with melons, or, if required, planted again for 

 cucumbers. 



Strawberries. — Those will now be very troublesome with 

 red-spider should the weather be hot, and particularly if the 

 plants are standing on shelves, and, except when ripening, 

 wUl require to be regularly syringed on fine afternoons. All 

 plants that are now done bearing may, after being properly 

 hardened, be planted out in well trenched and manured soil, 

 to give runners for another year's supply, and also to bear 

 outdoors next year, for which they are invaluable. 



JUNE. 



Pines. — Succession stock will now have well taken with • 

 their shift, and made rapid progress, and will require careful 

 management to prevent them from making a soft watery 

 growth on the one hand, and on the other from a wiry 

 weakly growth. Give just enough of water to keep the soil 

 regularly moist without being sloppy ; and instead of syring- 

 ing the plants heavily overhead and about their centres, rather 

 damp the surface of the plunging material, and just dew the 

 plants gently overhead through a fine rose. They may now 

 be more freely aired, opening the ventilators and shutting 

 them gradually. The fires may be allowed to go out, or 

 nearly so, in steady hot weather, but always kindle or set 

 them agoing in time to prevent the thermometer from falling 



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