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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[June, 
state and size of the vine; if too many bunches are left, small berries and a want 
of colour will be the result. Spare no pains to keep the foliage clean and healthy. 
Peaches: When the fruit begins to ripen a drier atmosphere must be maintained, 
and aii\ in abundance, should be given. Attend to the stopping and tying down 
of the shoots in the late houses. Syringe once or twice daily to keep down the 
red spider; it is a great point to keep the foliage clean and healthy, in fact, 
without it there can be no successful fruit-growing. Figs : When the first crop 
of fruit is all cleared off, every attention should be given to the second crop ; keep 
the borders well watered, and persevere in syringing the foliage to keep it clean. 
Cacumhers and Adelons: See that these have a proper bottom-heat; keep the 
shoots stopped and trained ; attend to watering and air-giving. Plant for late 
crops. 
Hardy Fruit Garden. —This is an important and busy month in this 
department, as fruit trees of all kinds now demand attention. Continue the 
disbudding and stopping of the shoots ; nail or tie in the young shoots as they 
require it. No quarter must be given to insects ; the moment any are perceived 
prompt measures should be taken to eradicate them. Attend to the proper 
thinning of the fruit. The crops of all kinds of fruit promise to be heavy this 
season, and therefore thinning should be attended to early, and well persevered 
in. Stop and thin out the strongest shoots from the interior of Gooseberry and 
Currant trees. Put some straw between the rows of Strawberries^ to keep the 
fruit clean. 
Flower Garden. — Plant Houses: —Observe the greatest cleanliness in these, 
otherwise insects will soon become troublesome. Give air at night as w'ell as 
during the day. Soft-wooded Plants intended for specimens should now have 
plenty of room, and should be turned round occasionally; attend carefully 
to tying, training, and watering, and shift any of the plants that require it. 
All the hardier Hard-wooded Plants not in flower should be placed in a some¬ 
what sheltered, shaded situation out-of-doors. The young stock will do best in 
a cold pit or frame, with plenty of air day and night; shift any plants that 
require it. 
Pits and Frames. —Attend to the potting of seedlings as they require it, also 
to potting-off cuttings. Balsams., Cockscombs, Globe Amaranths, &c., will now 
be growing freely ; keep them near the glass, and give plenty of air and water ; 
shift them when they require it, using a rich compost. 
Out-Doors. — Anemones., JRanunculuses, Tulig)s., Jonquils., &c., should be taken 
up as soon as the leaves wither, and be dried and stored away. All Bedding 
Plants should now be got out without delay. Plant Dahlias and tender Annuals, 
and other plants in the borders. If the weather should be dry, keep all newly- 
planted things well watered, until they get established in the beds, and begin to 
grow away freely. Propagate Wallflowers., Rockets, Arabis., Iberis., Alyssum, 
Aiibrietia., Myosotis, &c. Look well to the Roses; regulate and tie up weak 
