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especially during hot weather, or such a check may be 

 given as no after-treatment can put right. 



Syringe freely during dry weather, especially near towns. 



Use good but not too rich soil. 



Pot firmly. 



Apply artificial manures very carefully. 

 If these plain instructions are properly carried out, and no 

 fads and fancies indulged in, successful Chrysanthemum culture 

 will not only be found easy, but will bring pleasure and bright- 

 ness and joy to rich and poor alike, whether in town or in 

 country, during the dullest season of the year, when the sight of 

 beautiful flowers is always so cheering and hopeful. 



LATE -KEEPING GRAPES. 



By Mr. T. H. Ceasp, F.R.H.S. 



[Read November 28, 1893.] 



The importance of having a long and continuous supply of 

 Grapes during the winter months is fully recognised by all 

 gardeners, as well as by growers for market. As a matter of fact, 

 some hundreds of tons of well-ripened, finely coloured, and good- 

 flavoured Grapes are now grown for the chief markets in Britain ; 

 and in nearly every populous district will be found men who 

 have gained something more than local fame by the enormous 

 quantities of handsome late Grapes they produce every year. 



To the manager of a private garden it has become of even 

 greater importance to have a plentiful supply of late Grapes 

 than to endeavour to obtain by hard forcing, with considerable 

 expense and risk, a few extra early bunches, too often of in- 

 different quality. It is, therefore, evident that the subject of 

 late Grapes is well worth our consideration. 



There is a popular fallacy among some amateurs (and we 

 have met gardeners who are not entirely free from it), to the 

 effect that to obtain late Grapes it is only necessary to grow late 

 varieties; that they do not require any special treatment — indeed, 

 that rather less than ordinary care is quite sufficient to insure 



