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THE GARDEN MENTOR. 
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A niglit temperature of about 65°, fluctuating 2° oi: 3° above and below accord¬ 
ing to the weatber, with an increase during the day of 12° or 15° by sun-heat, 
must be maintained. Inside borders must be well watered when they require it. 
Stop and tie down shoots in the second house as they require it. Give air freely 
whenever the weather will permit. Prepare a late house for starting in rotation. 
—Peaches: When the fruit is all set the trees should be syringed night and 
morning; timely attention should be given to thinning the fruit, also to the 
disbudding and tying down of the shoots. The temperature should now be 
raised to about 60° at night, at which it should be maintained until after the 
stoning of the fruit, and to from 65° to 70° by day, with an increase of 8° or 10° 
by sun-heat; air should be admitted freely at every favourable opportunity. In 
the second house attend to previous directions.— Figs: These should be kept well 
watered ; a moist atmosphere, and a temperature of about 60°, with an increase 
by sun-heat, should be maintained. When the young shoots have grown flve or 
six joints, the terminal bud should be pinched out to stop the growth, and to 
facihtate the formation of the second crop.— Cherries: When the fruit is set, the 
trees should be syringed overhead every fine morning. Water carefully with 
tepid water.— Strawberries: When a suflScient number of the best blooms have 
set, all the rest should bo picked off, and the plants should be removed to a 
warmer house where they can be kept close and moist, whilst swelling off the 
fruit; give them liquid manure two or three times a week until they begin to 
colour, when water should be withheld, and air freely admitted. Advance suc- 
cessional batches in all stages. 
Hardy Fruit Garden. —When the planting of any Fruit-trees has yet to 
be done, it should be proceeded with without delay. If good plants can be 
obtained and they are carefully planted, are well midched, and are watered in dry 
weather during the spring, they may do very well; but as the autumn is without 
any doubt the best time for planting, it should be done then if possible. The 
pruning, dressing, and nailing-in of wall trees should now be proceeded with. 
As the fruit crops in many places were light last year, we shall in all probability 
have heavy crops this season ; at present, most kinds of trees are full of buds, and 
promise well. Protecting materials should be got ready to hand to be applied 
to Apricots^ Peaches, and Nectarines as soon as the buds begin to open. 
Raspberries should be pruned and tied, and have a good dressing of manure. 
The pruning of Gooseberry and Currant bushes should be completed forthwith. 
Flower Garden. — Plant Houses: Pelargoniums of aU kinds will now require 
attention; all plants requiring larger pots should be shifted, and the small leaves 
in the centre of the plants removed to admit the free circulation of air; the 
plants should be kept well tied out. The Pelargonium tent at Leeds last June 
was well worth going a long distance to see. A few of the more forward 
Cinerarias should now be removed to a warmer house, they will then soon come 
into flower, and will be very useful for bouquets and other ornamental purposes. 
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