Peaches.—Give a liberal supply of air, with less water, to trees, the fruit of which are ripening.
Pines.—Continue the previous instructions in the management of the plants in the different stages of growth.
Vines.—Thin and stop the shoots, and thin the berries in good time. Attend to the late crops, and set, by hand, the blossoms of Muscats, West’s St. Peter’s, and other shy setters. Be sure that inside borders are properly supplied with water, giving sufficient quantities to thoroughly moisten the whole mass of soil.
THIRD WEEK.
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY.
Attend carefully to the stock of plants for summer and autumn decoration, and do not allow them to suffer for want of pot room and water.
Azaleas.—Continue to encourage all that have flowered by timely potting, syringings, and applications of weak liquid manure.
Camellias.—Introduce a gradual declension of artificial heat amongst all that have completed their growth. A curtailment in the supply of water, giving merely sufficient to keep them from flagging, will induce the production of blossom-buds.
Epacris.—Repot with a pretty large shift the early-flowering sorts that have freely commenced their growth. Use good fibrous heath soil, rejecting any of a spongy or greasy nature. Such plants, for some time after being newly shifted, require particular attention in watering, that the soil may not become soddened. Let the plants be placed in a cold pit, and be slightly shaded during bright sunshine. The stopping or pinching out the points of strong shoots must be regularly attended to during their growing season, to establish a uniformity of sturdy growth.
Heaths and New Holland Plants.—All that have flowered, and have made their season’s growth, may be removed to cold pits, or frames, to allow those that remain, and are promising to flower, more air, sun and light.