By Mr. Patrick Flanagan. 



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or three smokings with tobacco, as directed before ; this will 

 totally destroy the insects. 



At this period (March) particular attention must be paid 

 to the regularity of heat, which may be progressively encreased 

 a degree or two as the season advances, but I do not allow it 

 to exceed the last named temperature until the fruit is per- 

 fectly stoned, when I increase it from 55° to 60° at night, and 

 from 77° to 80° of sun-heat. At the medium of these the 

 temperature should continue during the remaining part of 

 the season. 



Attention must be paid to the thinning of the young 

 shoots, as directed in the first year's management, and when 

 the young fruit are about the size of Damsons, they should 

 then be moderately thinned for the first time, leaving a 

 sufficiency for selecting a full crop by subsequent thin- 

 nings, which should be performed at two or more different 

 periods. 



It is to be observed that a few days before, and a few days 

 after, the crop begins to stone, is the most critical period in 

 forcing, and if strict attention is not paid at that time to the 

 due regulation of heat, and to the free admission of air at all 

 opportunities, a great portion of the fruit will fall off. I have 

 often seen three parts of the crops of Peaches and Nectarines 

 thus lost. 



The borders within the house must be occasionally watered, 

 after the stoning, until the fruit is arrived at full size, and 

 begins to change colour, then all watering should be left off, 

 both with the syringe, and on the borders. 



When this crop of fruit begins to ripen, which will be about 

 the second week in July, I gradually expose the house to the 



