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work either of insects or parasite plants, should be picked off and 
destroyed. If the trees have had any kind of protection it may be 
removed, but not before the middle of the month. 
Peach and Nectarine Trees .—Require to be looked over in this 
month to regulate the growth. This business is usually performed in 
June, or even later, but as the symmetry and perfect health of the 
tree depends entirely on the summer regulation, it cannot be done too 
soon. Far better it is to displace a bud than allow it to grow two 
or three inches in length and then to break it off; the first induces a 
moderate movement in the system favourable to fruitfulness; the 
second causes an unnecessary excitement which can only be by repeated 
mutilations checked. This care should be bestowed on all wall trees 
and espaliers, which being confined to a limited space and in a position 
so unlike their natural forms, require to have their natural energies 
(prompted, perhaps, by a rich soil and fine situation,) kept in subjection, 
by discouraging the production of superfluous shoots, or flowers, or fruits. 
Peachery. —The fruit here, if fire was put to in December, will now 
be swelling off. A higher temperature is now necessary, say from 
seventy to seventy-five degrees of Fahrenheit’s scale by day, and from 
sixty-five to seventy during night. Guard against the attack of the 
red acarus. 
Vinery .—Training reserved shoots and divesting them of tendrils, 
of lateral shoots above the first joint, stopping redundant growths, 
thinning the bunches and tying up the shoulders of the largest, giving 
seventy degrees of heat, but at the same time plenty of air, and keeping 
free from insects, is the usual attention bestowed at this time. Vines 
in pots may be brought into the house ; the fruit will be ripe about the 
first of August. 
Chei'ry House. —About this period the fruit will probably be stoning. 
This is a critical time, and much care is required to keep an equable 
degree of moist temperature. This should never exceed sixty degrees 
by day, and fifty-five on nights. When the fruit begin to swell off the 
heat may be gradually increased to seventy by day, and allowed to sink 
to sixty-five at night. Give plenty of fresh air, and keep the trees and 
air of the house moist by frequent syringing till the fruit are nearly 
ripe, when this must be discontinued. 
Pinery. —The grapes in this house being forward will require thin¬ 
ning, and the trees to be relieved from all irregular or unnecessary 
growth. The pines of every degree must have the due share of heat 
both at bottom and top; fresh air and water whenever necessary. 
Melons and Cucumbers .—The frames of these fruits, particularly 
the former, will now require particular attention in regulating the 
number of fruit, and giving assistance to those which have begun to 
