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and increase the ventilation by degrees to the maximum by 

 12 o'clock. Let vines from which the fruit is all cut he 

 kept cool, and their foliage weU syringed occasionally, to 

 keep them free from red-spider, and their foliage in health 

 as long as possible. Thin all grapes immediately they are 

 fit for the scissors, as fruit advance so quickly at this season 

 that they soon get larger and thicker than they ought to be 

 when thinned. If not already done, pot-vines intended for 

 fruiting early next year should be shifted into their fruiting- 

 pots. 



Peaches. — Where the early crop is all gathered, give the 

 trees a thorough washing with clean water through the 

 engine, and continue to syringe or engine them two or three 

 times a-week, to keep the foliage fresh and free from insects 

 throughout the heat of summer. If the border is dry, let 

 it also have a good watering, and keep everything connected 

 with the trees tidy and clean. The starving of early- 

 forced trees with the idea of ripening them is injurious. 

 Keep them cool by giving an abundant supply of air at 

 front and top. Where fruit are swelling off, continue to 

 syringe the trees on the afternoons of fine days, shutting 

 them up early and keeping the temperature to 65°, as a 

 minimum, with as little fire-heat as possible. Tie in the 

 growths and thin the fruit of later houses; and wherever 

 fire-heat is applied, keep up atmospheric moisture in pro- 

 portion. 



Figs. — So soon as the first crop is gathered from early 

 trees, give them a heavy watering with liquid manure, and 

 mulch with short dung, so as to support the second crop 

 now showing. Syringe freely on fine afternoons, and spr i nkle 

 the border and paths frequently in course of bright days, for 

 figs delight in a moist atmosphere. Top-dress those in pots 

 now swelling their second crop, and water freely with guano- 

 water, and syringe the trees vigorously to keep down red- 

 spider. 



