Thrid 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.





STOVE AND ORCHID-HOUSE.



Keep up a liberal supply of humidity, with ventilation, at favourable

opportunities. The plants here should now be growing very freely, and

should, therefore, receive frequent attention as to stopping, training,

&c. Keep them properly accommodated with pot room, and allow them

all the sunshine they will bear without scorching; also, allow them

sufficient space for the development of their foliage. Plenty of

moisture is now requisite to encourage a free growth in Orchids, to get

their pseudo-bulbs firm, well nourished, and ripened in good time.

Free ventilation in favourable weather and a slight shading in bright

sunshine are also requisites for their healthy growth.





FORCING-HOUSES.



Cherries.--When the fruit is ripening, air to be given freely, even to

the drawing the lights off completely in favourable weather. Fires may

be discontinued altogether, unless the nights are very cold.



Figs.--Give them plenty of water in all their stages of growth;

discontinue the use of the syringe during the ripening process. They

frequently require attention in stopping all long young shoots.



Melons.--If there is a sufficient depth of soil for the plants, they

will not require any large supplies of water after the fruit is swelling

off; but it will be necessary to sprinkle the plants overhead, and to

shut up early every fine afternoon with a good heat. Lay the fruit on a

tile or piece of slate.



Peaches.--When the fruit is swelling off, or beginning to ripen, admit

air freely in favourable weather, even to the drawing off the lights

entirely, so as to admit a free circulation and the direct influence of

the sun, by which flavour and colour are best attained. Continue to stop

all very-luxuriant shoots, and thin out the young wood. Some persons

lay in plenty of young wood to select from in winter pruning; but

fruit-bearing wood, regularly disposed all over the tree, is best

attained by the judicious and successive thinning of useless shoots

during their growing season. Continue to tie in the shoots of the late

houses.



Pineries.--When the repotting of the plants has recently taken place it

will be necessary to shade for several hours, during bright sunshine,

for a few days; but for the general stock shading should be dispensed

with as much as possible--as short, stiff leaves and sturdy growth are

best attained by judicious airings and humidity. Do not water much at

the root immediately after repotting. Maintain a brisk bottom heat to

the succession plants. Admit plenty of air during favourable weather.



Vineries.--As the fruit in the early houses become coloured, it is

advisable to remove all superfluous or rambling shoots; but to retain

and to preserve with the greatest care the principal leaves--as the

good quality of the fruit and the healthy condition of the tree for

the ensuing season will depend upon the number and healthy state of the

principal leaves.