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quired, remove the plants to a cool dry room, where they 

 will keep in good condition for two or three weeks, and so 

 keep up a succession 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 ahout 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 over- 

 head every fine day when shut up, and give air more liber- 

 ally 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 careful management. No more water 

 should be given than is sufficient to keep them from sufier- 

 ing 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° will be a night temperature sufiiciently 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, and that are not now so forward, 

 require to be encouraged to grow more freely for another 

 month at least, and consequently require to be kept more 

 moist, and be shut up with more heat on the afternoons of 

 fine clear days. Avoid as much as possible a forcing-heat on 

 dull days and at night, and take advantage of sun-heat when 

 it can be had. All syringing of growing stock overhead 

 should now cease. 



Grapes. — Late grapes intended to hang through the winter 

 should be quite ripe by the end of the month. In keeping 

 grapes successfully, it is of great importance that the foliage 

 be healthy as long as possible. And if there be any red- 

 spider about the vines in patches, as is not unfrequent, get 

 rid of it at once. In wet localities, where heavy autumn 



