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CALENDAR FOR APRIL. 
sufficient number on a piece set aside on purpose to supply a 
proper quantity of strong and early runners for forcing. 
Forcing Garden. The temperature in the cucumber pits should 
continue to range higher as the sun gains power, but the night- 
heat should not be increased in the same proportion, or the 
result will be a weak straggling growth and indifferent fruit. 
Continue to stop, thin, and regulate the plants as they advance, 
and otherwise attend to previous directions. Treat melons in a 
similar manner, but with care in the use of moisture, which 
should be more sparingly applied, especially over head; when so 
applied of an afternoon, close the pits early; shade in hot, bright 
weather. Put out succession crops of both cucumbers and 
melons. Maintain a brisk heat among the growing pine-apples, 
so as to use both air and water freely as soon as the weather 
becomes bright and clear; the young plants should be shifted as 
often as they fill their pots, shading them until they begin to push 
again. The swelling fruit should be kept rather drier, and when 
they begin to colour should have little or no water. Peaches 
and nectarines should be freely syringed in the morning with 
clearwater, and the roots also regularly watered. Destroy green 
fly and red spider as soon as they appear. Continue to thin the 
fruit and branches as necessary, and maintain a temperature of 
about 75° or a little higher by day, giving plenty of air. The 
heat in the early vinery may rise to 80° in sunny weather, and 
air may be admitted freely. Continue to thin and regulate the 
fruit and rods, allowing neither to become crowded. Vines 
in pots should be shifted as they advance, and kept near the 
light, being occasionally supplied with liquid manure. Thin 
the trusses of strawberries of all weak flowers or fruit, and water 
more sparingly as the fruit ripens. Introduce succession crops 
to the coolest part of the house and water freely. 
Make additional sowings of French beans, and syringe the 
forward crops freely, using liquid manure to the roots about 
once or twice a week. Keep the temperature regular in the 
mushroom house, and remove all sea-kale, rhubarb, and other 
roots as they cease bearing. 
D. M. 
