Fourth Week

GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY.



Many of the finer kinds of hard-wooded plants--such as Boronias,

Epacrises, &c.--will now be out of bloom, and will require cutting in

rather closely, to form neat bushy plants. Some of the greenhouse plants

will most probably require shifting, and should receive that attention

now, or, at latest, by the middle of next month. Keep a sharp look out

for insects of all kinds, and also for mildew; and give the plants, if

the weather is dry, a sprinkling once or twice a-week from the syringe

or garden engine.



New Holland Plants.--If any are retained in the house, let them be

placed where they can have a sufficiency of light and fresh air, and at

the same time in a place where the sun has no power on the pots; but if

such cannot be avoided, place the pot containing the plant in another

two sizes larger, and fill the intervening space with moss.



Pelargoniums.--When out of bloom, they should be placed in the open

ground for a fortnight or three weeks to ripen the wood before they are

cut down.



Scarlet Geraniums.--To prepare them for winter blooming it is advisable

to place the pots during the summer on a hard bottom out of doors and

in the full sun, and to pinch out the flower-stems as they appear. To be

carefully attended with water.





STOVE AND ORCHID-HOUSE.



Keep up a kindly humidity by frequent syringings, and keeping the

floors, paths, &c., damp. Many of the stove plants--viz., Clerodendrons,

Erythrinas, Gardenias, Ixoras, Jasmines, Liliums, Pergularias,

Stephanotises, &c.--may be removed to the conservatory, where the

flowers will attain a deeper colour and retain it for a longer period



than if they had remained in the stove.



Euphorbias.--Propagate jacquiniaeflora and fulgens, and grow them

on a successional system of culture for furnishing the conservatory and

stove throughout the autumn, winter, and spring.



Gesnera zebrina.--Keep up a succession in various stages of growth, and

place another batch of tubers in a pan.





FORCING-HOUSES.



Give particular attention to the preservation of the foliage in houses

where the fruit has been gathered, keeping the atmosphere cool and

moist; and give the trees an occasional washing with the engine, to keep

down red spider and the leaves clean and healthy.



Cherries.--When the trees are planted in the house, and the fruit has

been gathered, give all the air possible by throwing it entirely open.

Give them a good washing occasionally with the garden engine. When the

plants are in pots, it is advisable to place them on a hard bottom on

the north side of a wall or fence.



Melons.--Bottom heat is necessary for their healthy growth; without it

a check would be given that would be sure to produce a most injurious

effect on the swelling fruit. Water to be given to the plants overhead

occasionally.



Peaches.--Continue to maintain a moist, healthy atmosphere while the

fruit is swelling. Give air sufficiently early in the morning, to

prevent the sun scorching the foliage. Syringe and shut up early in the

afternoon.



Pines.--Continue to provide proper bottom and surface heat, and give

attention to airing, watering, syringing, and shifting in due time. By

such means a large amount of healthy growth may now be secured for the

fruit-swelling and succession plants. The plants swelling their fruit to

be also favoured with a high temperature, a moist atmosphere, and plenty

of water, and occasionally manure water at the root. If worm-casts

appear in any of the pots, water with lime-water in a clear state.



Vines.--As the dry atmosphere necessary for the preservation of the ripe

bunches is conducive to the increase of red spider, the sulphur must

be immediately applied as advised last week. Discontinue the use of the

syringe as soon as the succession crops begin to ripen. Check the growth

of laterals by timely pinching. Give the final thinnings to the latest

Grapes; and as they are frequently required for winter use, a good

thinning should be given, as crowded bunches and berries will not keep

late in the season.