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JUNE — THIED WEEK. 



few hours in the middle of the day, If the red spider 

 appears, rub sulphur vivura, mixed with water, on slates 

 or tiles, and place them in the pit, or frame, where the 

 sun's rays may fall upon them. 



Peaches. — Admit plenty of air when the fruit is ripe, 

 or nearly so. "When the crop is gathered, give them 

 a good washing with the syringe. Those changing for 

 ripening, if the trees are young and vigorous, to have a 

 general stopping of the strong shoots all over the higher 

 parts of the tree. To keep down red spider, it is advisable 

 to wash the walls, pipes, or fiues, with sulphur vivum 

 reduced to the consistency of paint ; or to paint some 

 slates, tiles, or common saucers, with the mixture, and to 

 place them in different parts of the house, where the sun 

 can shine upon them. 



Pines.— If the pot plants in fruit are in a healthy con- 

 dition, well furnished with roots, an occasional supply of 

 clear manure water, in a warm state, may be given with 

 advantage to them. 



Steawbeeeies. — As it is necessary, by early attention, 

 to ensure a healthy, vigorous growth, therefore, as soon 

 as the runners have emitted the least portion of root, 

 take them off, and prick them out on a rich piece of 

 ground, or on an old hotbed where Radishes or early 

 Potatoes have been grown under hoops, where, Avhen the 

 weather is hot, they are more convenient to shade, and 

 require less water. 



Vines. — When the fruit is cut in the early houses, 

 ripen the wood by exposing it night and day, except 

 during heavy rains. Water to be gradually withheld 

 as the growth of the plants declines, and somewhat 

 in the proportion in which you would have vegetation 

 stop, not all at once, but gradually. The Vines with 

 fruit now stoning may be allowed to produce a few re- 

 dundant shoots if there is sufficient room to lay them 

 in without crowding, or overlapping the old wood, or 

 shading the old leaves. The late Grapes to be finally 

 thinned, their shoulders to be tied out, and every use- 

 less shoot to be removed. Keep the Vines in pots 

 trained, and exposed to light, and apply weak liquid 

 manure frequently. 



