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In-Doors. —The instructions given last month for Pines will serve for this ; 
keep all the growing plants thin, that they may grow stiff and robust; shift any 
plants that may require it; give air freely, water liberally, and be careful the 
bottom-heat does not decline much below 85°. Attention should now be paid 
to the ripening of the wood in those Vineries where the fruit is cut; stop late 
growth; syringe the vines freely to keep the foliage clean and healthy, and give 
abundance of air at all times. In Vineries where the fruit is colouring admit 
air freely by day and leave some on at night also ; maintain a moist growing 
atmosphere where the fruit is swelling; continue to stop the laterals in late 
vineries, and if not sufficiently thinned, remove a few more berries. Attention 
should also be paid to the ripening of the wood of Peaches in the early houses 
as soon as the fruit is all gathered; keep inside borders well watered in houses 
when the fruit is swelling, and give abundance of air. Attend well to the 
watering of Figs that are swelling-off their second crop; syringe the foliage to 
keep down red-spider, and maintain a moist atmosphere by wetting the borders, 
floors, &c. See that Cucumbers and Melons have a nice steady bottom-heat; 
keep the shoots well thinned, as nothing is worse than allowing them to grow 
crowded. Water well when they require it, and give air freely at every 
favourable opportunity.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
GARDEN LITERATURE. 
« N Botany for Beginners* we have a most successful attempt to infuse a 
little freshness into a treatise on elementary structural Botany. By means 
f of a new series of objects, and a new set of illustrative figures, the subject 
is presented in a new form, and with attractions of its own. The plan of 
the author is to commence with the simplest forms of flowers, and pass on to the 
more elaborate—a plan which has this advantage, that it can be made progressive 
with the season. Hence the book will exactly fit the requirements of home 
study as well as meet the purposes of self-instruction, since the language is 
precise and definite. The illustrations are 78 in number. 
The Rev. W. Lea, in a small duodecimo entitled Small Farms|, endeavours 
to show how such a farm can be made to afford a very good living to its occupier. 
His hobby is fruit-growing, and a few years since he set about riding it, with a 
view to see whether or no such farms might be made to pay if planted with fruit. 
How far this was effected, and the means employed, form the subject of the few 
short chapters in which this sixpenny treatise is comprised. 
More about Fruit-Trees may be learned from M. Du Breuil’s book,! which 
is an excellent treatise on Grafting, Pruning, Training, Renovation, and Preser¬ 
vation in general, with special sections devoted to the Pear, Apple, Peach, Plum, 
* Botany for Beginners: an Introduction to the Study of Plants. By Maxwell T. Masters, M.D., F.R.S. 
London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co. 
\ Small Farms: how they can be made to answer by means of fruit-growing. London: 171 Fleet Street. 
t The Scientific and Profitable Culture of Fruit-Trees. From the French of M. Du Breuil, adapted for English 
cultivators by William Wardle. Second Edition, revised, by William Glenny. London: Lockwood and Co. 
