FEBETTARY — FIRST AND SECOND WEEK. 19 



Pines. — If any indications of the presence of worms 

 appear on the surface of the pots a watering with clear lime 

 water will remove them. The same steady temperature 

 to be kept up in the fruiting-house or pit as lately advised. 

 Although it is sometimes recommended we would not 

 advise to withhold water at the roots for the purpose 

 of starting them into fruit ; for if, by proper manage- 

 ment, they are good, healthy plants, they will have formed 

 their fructiferous parts before this time, and therefore 

 should not be allowed to get dry, but be watered when 

 they require it with tepid water. 



Vines. — The successional houses to be treated nearly 

 in all respects the same as the early houses ; the tempe- 

 rature may now be increased in accordance with the 

 increase of light rather more rapidly at an early stage of 

 their growth than that of the house in which forcing was 

 commenced in December. When Vines for the early 

 crops are grown in pots, put the eyes in 60-sized pots, 

 and plunge them in a dung-frame or pit, with a bottom 

 heat between 70° and 80°; The Hamburghs, Blade 

 Prince, Muscadine, and Sweetwater are the kinds to be 

 preferred for that purpose. 



SECOND WEEK. 



geeenhouse and conservatory. 



As plants naturally, after their season of rest during 

 the winter, now begin to grow, it is advisable to shift the 

 young stock, and all others that require it, into fresh 

 soil, by which they will be the better enabled to progress 

 to a healthy -blooming state without check or hindrance. 

 Although from this time to the middle of March is to be 

 considered the most favourable season for a general shift, 

 nevertheless it may be necessary to shift some plants 

 more than once or twice during their season of growth. 



Climbers. — To be attended to, removing weak and 

 dead wood, and cutting back to three or four eyes where 

 an increase of young shoots is desirable. To be fre- 



