June.'\ 



THE FORCING GARDEN. 



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month, or beginning of August, as the state of the crop may 

 determine. Such phints as are coming in for successional 

 crops to ripen in autumn, and any that may have remained 

 without showing fruit in the fruiting-pit, should be supphed 

 with water, and otherwise managed, as has been ah'eady directed 

 for such plants in the former months. 



FORCING PEACHES. 



The fruit will now be approaching fast to maturity, if the 

 directions given in the preceding months have been fully acted 

 upon, and other circumstances equally fiivorable have occurred. 

 Air should be admitted now in large portions every day, and 

 when the fruit is ripening, the sashes (if moveable) should be 

 drawn down every fine dry day, that the fruit may enjoy as 

 much as possible of the influence of the sun and air, to im- 

 prove its flavor and color. It is a well-known fact, that 

 peaches ripened in houses are n^ver so fine-flavored, nor yet 

 so well-colored, as those upon the open walls ; therefore, the 

 more they are now exposed to the free action of the sun and 

 air, the finer will the fruit be. Care must be taken that, upon 

 the approach of rain, the house be covered up, as wet would 

 be highly injurious to them at this time. The waterings must 

 now be discontinued ; beginning first by withholding the bot- 

 tom watering, and by degrees the use of the syringe, until 

 the whole be left off*. The leaves which shade the fruit, and 

 which were directed last month to be left on, should now be 

 displaced. If they cannot be pushed aside sufficiently to pre- 

 sent the full exposure to the sun, let them be entirely taken 

 off', leaving about an inch of the lower part of the leaf, to- 

 gether with the foot-stalk of the leaf, which may, in some 

 cases, mature the bud at its base. To have high-colored and 

 fine-flavored fruit is the ambition of every gardener ; no 

 means, therefore, are so likely to produce those effects as the 

 removal of the sashes from the roof of the house at this pe- 

 riod ; but, as it has been already observed, care must be taken 

 that they be shut up again upon the approach of rain. 



When the fruit is ripe and beginning to drop, nets should 

 be suspended under tlic trees for the fruit which falls to drop 



