Aug.] 



THE FORCING GARDEN. 



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treatment will be the r.icans of keeping the plants in a fine 

 growing state without endangering their starting- into fruit, 

 which, of all things at this season, should be guarded against ; 

 for those which start into fruit at this time, may be considered 

 tantamount to being lost. 



The plants in the nursing-pit will now have to be put in 

 order to bring into the succession-house, to be there for- 

 warded for fruiting-plants in the course of a year. Many, if 

 not all of them, will require to be repotted, at least most of 

 the strongest of them. The bed in the succession house should 

 be prepared for them, as already directed on former occasions, 

 still keeping down the new or fresh tan or leaves towards the 

 bottom. The flues of this compartment should also be 

 cleaned, and all necessary repairs done to the walls, flues, 

 and roof of the house ; the walls should also bo whitewashed 

 with lime and water, to give the whole a lighter and neater 

 appearance. 



The plants being potted into pots suitable to their respective 

 sizes, should be arranged in the bed in a regular manner, 

 keeping the tallest towards the back and the smallest in front. 

 After bein^y all arrano^ed, the whole should be watered at their 

 roots, and be syringed over-head. 



The crowns and suckers, which have been collecting and 

 rooting in the frames or in the front of the nursing-pit, should 

 now be all potted ; that is, all those which are rooted and 

 brought into the nursing-pit, to be there forwarded to occupy 

 the succession-pit the ensuing year, and the bed there made 

 ready for their reception, as already directed for the succes- 

 sion-pit. After the plants are plunged, and watered ak the 

 roots, let them be syringed over-head, but not immoderately, 

 as they will not be able to resist so much water as those which 

 are farther advanced in growth. Those crowns and suckers 

 which were taken off' the old plants, and had been laid by at 

 the commencement of the regulating of the fruiting-pit, should 

 now be planted in the frames in rotten leaves or tan ; these 

 beds having also been previously forked up, or renewed for 

 their reception. Some of the strongest suckers may be potted 

 at once in small pots, in light vegetable mould, and they will 

 strike root as freely as those in tlie rotten tan or decayed leaves. 



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