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syringe to keep the foliage healthy. Cherries .—Reduce the moisture 
when the fruit begins to colour, at the same time increasing the tempe¬ 
rature to hasten their ripening. Water well at the root. When the 
crop is gathered remove the trees to a shady situation. Pines .—Shift 
the succession plants as they may require it, and keep up a moist growing 
heat ranging about 70° at night and from 80° to 90° during sunshine; 
by all means avoid a burning bottom heat. Give plenty of air in warm 
quiet weather, but always avoid a draught in the pit, for giving 
front and back air to the pits at the same time is the principal cause 
why the plants sometimes assume a brown and unhealthy appearance. 
Give water freely to all plants and liquid manure occasionally, especi¬ 
ally to those in fruit. All plants intended for winter fruiting should 
have their final shift, and give them more heat and less moisture, to 
encourage them to start into fruit. Keep up a moist heat in the fruiting 
pit, and the temperature should range from 75° to 80° through the 
night, with an increase of 10° by sun-heat, Syringe and close the 
house early in the afternoon. Vinery .—Continue to apply artificial 
heat to all except the late houses, so that the temperature does not fall 
below that previously maintained. When the fruit is perfectly ripe 
the houses may be kept cool, to prevent the fruit from shrivelling. 
Keep the latest Vines retarded as much as possible until they show for 
fruit, when the usual treatment must be given. Clear out all plants 
such as French Beans, Strawberries, &c., from the Vineries, other¬ 
wise red spider may be troublesome on the Vines. Assist pot Vines 
by mulching with strong manure and watering with manure water. 
Cut away all useless growth. Strawberries .—Introduce the last lot 
of plants under glass early in the month ; this crop will keep up the 
supply between the forced fruit and the ripening of those in the open 
ground. Give plenty of air and water to those in bearing, and syringe 
frequently to keep down red spider. Kitchen Garden .—Now that 
many of the crops, such as Onions, Potatoes, Parsnips, &c., are progressing, 
the hoe should be kept moving amongst them, and at the same time 
thinning should commence. Plant out Cabbage, Lettuce, Walcheren, 
and other Cauliflowers, and sow again for the succession crop. Look 
over the seed beds, and if any failures sow again immediately. Sow 
Beet, Cardccns, Salsafy, and Silver Onion, on poor soil, to have them 
small for pickling. Carrots may be sown at any time through the 
month, and Turnips on a cool border. Sow Dwarf Beans in light soil 
on a warm border. Also Scarlet Runners and succession crops of Peas ; 
these should be sown sufficiently wide to admit of two rows of winter 
Greens or Broccoli between them by-and-bye. A drill of summer 
Spinach may be sown in the middle for the present crop. Prick out 
Celery in about three inches of rich earth placed on a hard surface ; 
prepare trenches for the early crop; plant out as soon as the plants are 
sufficiently strong. Water well after planting. Sow Radishes and 
small Salad in succession. Cut oat seed spikes from Seakale and 
Rhubarb. Plant out tender herbs at the end of the month; also 
Tomatoes and Egg-plants. Prepare ridges for Vegetable Marrows 
and Cucumbers, and plant under handglasses. Dutch Cucumbers for 
pickling may be sown in rich light earth in the open ground. 
