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Till. ri;.v<. 1 U AL GARDENHR. 



However, ill the earlier stages of tlieir growth, hquid manure 

 may be appUed to their roots ; but it should be discontinued 

 when the berries are about one-third of their size. Clearwater 

 should be supplied to them until they have nearly attained 

 their full size, gradually withdrawing it as they begin to color ; 

 from which time none should be given at their roots, unless 

 the borders arc very dry indeed, and even then with a sjKiring 

 hand ; the syringing of the leaves should also be abandoned, 

 as it is sure to destroy the fine rich bloom upon the berries. 



But at this period of their growth, now under consideration, 

 water from the engine should be applied abundantly over their 

 leaves, to suppress or destroy the red spider; which, without 

 this precaution, would be highly detrimental to the foliage. 

 Water, thus applied, should be sent out with considerable 

 force, first from the right-hand end of the house, and then 

 from the left, so that both sides of the leaves may be tho- 

 roughly scourged with the water once every day, and in 

 warm days once in the morning, and again in the evening. 

 The house should be regularly steamed every evening, accord- 

 ing to directions previously given. The green fly seldom 

 attacks the vine as it does the peach, but the thrips are often 

 found curled up in the leaves ; which, on account of their per- 

 forating them in thousands of holes, soon destroy them, and 

 cause them to assume a shrivelled and dead appearance. 

 When these enemies make their appearance, the fumigations 

 of tobacco must be had rc^'ourse to. 



The utter destruction of both the red spider and thrips 

 should be completed before the fruit attains its full size, and 

 particularly before it begins to color, as the agents employed 

 for their destruction, tobacco, fumigation, and water, camiot 

 be then applied without injury to the fruit. 



The directions noticed last month regarding prunmg and 

 training in the young wood, must be duly attended to through- 

 out this month, in order to prevent any uimecessary waste of 

 the strength of the vines by producing shoots, only to be 

 taken off either soon or at the winter pruning, as well as to 

 prevent confusion and too much sluide, into which the vine, 

 from its habits of rapid growth, is subject to run. 



