By Mfa Patrick Flanagan. 59 



red spider make their appearance > two or three strong fumi- 

 gations with tobacco, and frequent spunging will keep the 

 trees clean. 



If the trees appear to make luxuriant shoots in any part 

 where bearing wood is wanted, the shoots should be stopped 

 at the third or fourth leaf, and if they are still inclined to 

 grow strong, they must be stopped a second time ; this will 

 obtain kindly wood. Two or three times in the spring the 

 whole should be looked over, and the shoots moderately 

 thinned out, leaving those which are most kind and well 

 placed at regular distances for the next year's bearing. The 

 first thinning of the young shoots should be just after the 

 fruit is set? and when they are eight or ten inches long ; 

 when at that length, they must be laid in at such distances 

 as to admit the sun and air to ripen the wood destined to 

 bear in the ensuing season. 



The principal business of the first season is to keep the 

 young wood regularly laid in, to attend to the top and bot- 

 tom waterings, and to the free admission of air at all oppor- 

 tunities. If all this has been done, and the plants have been 

 kept clean, they will in this season have made plenty of good 

 bearing wood for the next year, and they will have nearly 

 covered half the extent of trellis within the house. 



I generally take off the whole of the sloping lights for the 

 winter months, and cover the borders and flues with five or 

 six inches of light litter, to prevent severe frosts doing injury 

 to either. 



Commencement of the Second Season of forcing. 

 The glass should be put on in the last week in January, 

 the house be well cleaned all over, and the flues, as far as 



