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Apples.— As soon as they change colour, 
keep a sharp look out after woodlice, slugs, 
&c; strew cut potatoes, lettuce leaves, bean 
stalks, or brewer's grains, to decoy them, 
when they can be easily destroyed. The 
choice sorts of apples can be increased by 
budding. Break off all the breast-wood of 
trained trees, and shorten the leading shoots 
of standards. 
Apricots. — All watering must now be with- 
held until the fruit is gathered ; make provi- 
sion for those which are ripe to fall into 
mats, nets, or upon moss ; look over the trees 
every morning, and pick the ripe ones, and 
lay them in a cool place. 
Budding. — Loosen all the bandages of 
those put in last month. Now is the prefer- 
able season, and some recommend beginning 
with cherries, apricots, &c, leaving pears 
and apples to the last ; but this has to be 
determined by the state of the buds and 
shoots, so that no rule can be given. 
Cherries. — Give the early trees a good 
syringing, and see that the Morellos are net- 
ted in time. Remove the nets from the trees 
as soon as the fruit is gathered. Lay in all 
the young wood of old trees, as the fruit comes 
better than on old spurs. 
Currants. — See that those which are mat- 
ted up are quite secure, and kept from damp. 
Figs. — Remove all fore-right shoots ; pinch 
off the points ; regulate and nail in the shoots, 
using the knife as little as possible. 
Gooseberries. — Attend to those which are 
netted or covered up, allowing no mode of 
entrance for the birds, &c. 
Nectarines, fyc. — Again look over, and 
nail in any branches that may, in the least, 
require support, especially in young trees. 
Take off some of the leaves from the fruit, so 
as to give it the more sun ; prepare to catch 
the ripe fruit by hanging mats or nets below, 
or moss along the bottom of the wall. 
Peaches. — Give a final look over, until the 
fruit is gathered, and see that they are well 
nailed and thinned, both in wood and fruit ; 
withhold water as soon as they take their last 
swelling. "When ripe, provide for their fall- 
ing, as with Nectarines. 
Pears. — The weather has been most propi- 
tious for the finer sorts of pears. Take off 
all unshapely fruit, &c. ; thin them where 
there is a probability of an overload ; divest 
the trees of all the breast wood, conducting 
all the strength of the tree to the buds and 
fruit. Mulch and water those that have 
heavy crops. 
Raspberries. — Thin out the canes to four 
or five ; it would assist them to water with 
liquid manure. Stop the strong shoots, and 
secure the whole with stakes. 
Vines. — Thin out the berries as soon as 
they are set, and return to thin them a second 
time. Take off all laterals, and stop the 
shoot two eyes above the bunch ; keep the 
wood very thin, so as to allow free scope for 
the sun and air. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THIRD EXHIBITION FOE 1846. 
The third and final exhibition for the 
season, took place at Chiswick, on July 11th. 
As July exhibitions always are, it was inferior 
to the former ones in the display of flowers, 
but superior as far as regards fruit. There 
was a good display of carnations and picotees. 
Stove Plants. — Many of the same kind of 
plants noticed at p. 321, were again produced, 
especially Clerodendrons, of which there were 
many magnificent plants from Ealing Park. 
Mr. Robertson's best plant was a specimen of 
C. fallax, about four feet high, with a single 
stem, the large heart-shaped leaves and 
smaller branches occupying a diameter of 
four feet ; this plant had twelve panicles of 
its rich scarlet flowers. From the same place 
several of the same kind were nearly as fine, 
and with them was a good plant of C. pani- 
culatum, with an immense central cone-shaped 
mass of orange-scarlet blossoms. Mr. Ayres, 
of Brooklands, had a good specimen of the 
variety of C. fallax, called superbum. Of 
Ixoras, Mr. Green, of Cheam, had a plant of 
I. coecinea, three feet high ; and Mr. Fraser, 
of Lea Bridge, a larger one, both with very 
numerous heads of vermilion-coloured flowers. 
Mr. Ayres had a different one named I. crocata, 
with bunches of orange-scarlet blossoms ; this 
was a neat bush two feet high. Rondeletia 
speciosa — a fine shrub with bunches of orange- 
scarlet flowers, was shown in good condition 
by Mr. Green, and Mr. Robertson : the latter 
had a large plant of Cuphea Melvilla, which 
bears bunches of tube-like red flowers just 
tipped with green. There were some pretty 
specimens of Gardoquia Ilookeri, a slender 
sub-shrub with light-red, salvia-like flowers ; 
the best were from Mr. Stanley, of Sidcup, 
Mr. Fraser, and Mr. Bobertson ; they were 
about two feet high, and something more in 
diameter. vEschynanthus parasiticus, a plant 
with sub-trailing stems and scarlet tubular 
flowers of great beauty, was from Mr. Bruce, 
of Tooting. Mr. Stanley had a tolerably good 
plant of Gloriosa superba. Numerous speci- 
mens were produced of that dcliciously-scentcd 
white-flowered climber, the Stephanotis llori- 
bunda, trained on trellises of various forms; 
Mr. Green had one six feet high ; Mr. Fraser 
had one about the same size; and Mr. Robert- 
son, Mr. Eyles, of Roehampton, and Mr. 
Carson, of Cheani, had plants considerably 
larger: Mr. Young, of Cambcrwcll, had a 
