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PRESERVING GRAPES IN BOTTLES OF WATER. 
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quantity of Strawberry plants required for forcing next season should, without 
delay, now be laid in small-sized pots; those laid last month will be fit for 
potting. Attend to the instructions given last month for Cucumbers and Melons. 
The removal, stopping, regulating, and nailing of the young wood of fruit-trees 
should be persisted in, since the summer training and management are of the 
highest importance ; all superfluous growth should be removed. Gooseberry and 
Currant bushes should be thinned; and the young shoots of Raspberries thinned 
to the number required for next year. Insects are often very troublesome 
at this season ; spare no pains to keep the trees clear of them. New plantations 
of Strawberries made now will bear fine fruit next season. Net Cherries to 
protect them from birds. 
Any Hard-wooded plants that require shifting should now be potted without 
delay ; those that have been shifted some time ago will now be growing freely, 
and should have full exposure to the sun. The greatest attention must be paid 
to the watering of all plants out-doors ; copious syringings in hot dry weather will 
be very beneficial. Look well to the young plants in pots, give them abundance 
of air, and shade for a short time during the heat of the day. Fuchsias , Pelargoniums , 
Cinerarias , and all descriptions of Soft-wooded plants intended for late blooming 
should at once have their final shift; stake, stop, regulate, and tie as the plants 
require it; attend well to the watering, and keep down green-fly by occasionally 
fumigating with tobacco-paper. Young plants of Primulas should be shifted 
when they require it; they will do best during the hot weather in a pit having a 
north aspect. 
Bedded-out plants have had an unfavourable start this season, the cold cutting 
northerly winds having been very much against their making progress. Much 
watering has been necessary to keep the plants moving. Every care and attention 
should now be given, in order to get the beds full and gay as soon as possible. 
Attend to picking off dead leaves, pegging down shoots of Verbenas and similar 
plants, and staking and tying up of all tall-growing plants ; all creepers should 
be carefully regulated. Keep all faded flowers picked off Roses daily. Budding 
should now be done when the stocks are in a fit state. Mow lawns once a week, 
and sweep and roll walks frequently.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
PRESERVING GRAPES IN BOTTLES OF WATER. 
HAVE been cutting Lady Downe’s Seedling grapes up till this period in 
very good condition. They were placed in bottles of water some time in 
March, and the bottles hung on the shelves of a fruit-room where the light 
was partially excluded. A few bunches are still left, and - will keep till 
July. Three bunches which I sent to the meeting of the Fruit Committee at 
South Kensington on June 7th, were awarded a Special Certificate. I formerly 
let my latest Lady Downe’s grapes hang on the vines till May ; but this system, 
when pursued year after year, injures the vines, whereas by cutting the bunches off 
