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be exposed to as mucli sun as they will bear without 

 scorching the foliage, to induce stocky growth. Nothing 

 is more injurious to stove plants than to keep them grow- 

 ing late in the season, and thus to prevent the ripening 

 of the wood, which will render them more liable to in- 

 juries in winter and more unproductive of flowers the 

 following season. 



FORCING-HOUSES. 



Melons. — The plants on which the fruit is ripening 

 to be kept rather dry at the roots, with free exposure to 

 the air in favourable weather. A steady bottom heat to 

 be kept up to the late crops. 



Peaches. — If the lights have not been taken off the 

 early-forced houses, it would be advisable to remove 

 them as soon as possible, that the air, rain, and dews 

 may have free access to act both beneficially on the trees 

 and to keep down red spider. In those houses which 

 have been treated as advised in former Calendars, the 

 principal object now should be to get the wood properly 

 ripened. The late houses to be treated in a similar 

 manner when the fruit is gathered. Where the trees in 

 peach-houses have been recently planted, and are not 

 yet in a bearing state, the shoots will require to be trained 

 carefully, and insects to be kept down. 



Pines. — The plants growing in beds of soil to be care- 

 fully attended to with water, giving at each application 

 sufficient to penetrate the whole body of soil, as it fre- 

 quently happens that the surface is moist while the bottom 

 is quite dry. Pot a portion of the strongest successions 

 for early forcing next season. 



Steawbeeeies. — Continue to lay the runners of the 

 kinds you wish to force in pots until you have a sufficient 

 number. 



Vines. — Muscats, now beginning to ripen, will gene- 

 rally require a little fire heat to push them on; when 

 ripened in good time they are better flavoured and keep 

 longer than when the ripening process is delayed to a 

 late period of the season. Continue to remove the stray 

 laterals that begin to shade the larger leaves ; to be done 

 a little at a time, as disbudding on an extensive scale is 

 prejudicial to fruit trees. The young Vines in pots to 



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