The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-09 00:00:00

FORCING.

Pines —Succession plan-IS-InTended for fruiting early neat
year must be shifted into the fruiting pets at once, to enable
them to make a sirmg growth And get the pots well tided
with roots early in the autumn. When potted late, the
growth is not sufficiently matured before the short date,
and the plants, instead of "throwing up," make a second
growth when started in January. This IA also • good time
for a general repotting and revision of the several compart-
ment.. Shade slightly for an hour or so during the hottest
part of the day, especially after a day or so of dull weather.
One thick.ss of hexagon net or very thin tiffany will au
quite sufficient, as a thick shade will do more harm than
good. Keep plants that are Well rooted properly supplied
with water, and the atmosn'tsre of all the houses well
charged with humidity. Water fruiters that are swelling
their fruit with weak guano-water.
Voice —Keep the houses in which fruit is hanging cool
and dry with free ventilation. To keep out fitee and wasps,
tack very coarse Can.' or perforated Lille over all the
openings. The laterals on vlues from which the crop has
been gathered Amid be allowed to have free growth for
the present, and the borders to be kept sufficiently moist to
enable the buds to swell op properly. Crops swelling to have
frequent supplies of manure-water, and the borders must be
moist enough when the grapes Milin to colour to render any
further supplies unnecessary until they seeripe.
Pip —Give copious supplies of water to the trees lost
swel Mg up their second crops; if the trees show signs of ex-
haustion and are not growing freely, use liquid minute at
about every third watering. Pot tress should have the old
manure with which they were mulched in the spring removed
and replaced with fresh. Use the syringe freely, otherwise
the red -spider will soon infest the foliage and ruin future

crop..
Melons ripening must be elevated above the foliage, so
that they are fully exposed to the sun, and the aimoaphere
of the pit kept dry. Where the foliage of plants from which
the crop is gathered is fresh awl healthy, the vines may be
thinned out and cut back, and the frames kept close and
moist until the young shoots begin to push. Good Gut hi
occailonally obtained In tots way, but it is very seldom
Indeed that we see *second crop equal to the first; so that
the best way undoubtedly is to pull the old plants up, and
after emptying and thoroughly cleansing the pit to plant
young ones, which should be grown on ready for turning out.
Keep the foliage of growing plants healthy by the vigorous
use of the ryriuge, and atop all useless laterals, so that they
do not choke up the foliage of the main growth. The laterall
on which the fruit Ii growing do not require itoPldng•

Cucumber/I.—Plant soon for a fate autumn supply, for
those which have been in full bearing for the last three
months will soon begin to show signs of exhaustion, and it Is
certainly better to have young plants full of health and
vlgour to cut from than to depend upon old wormout stuff
that Is past Its best. Others le full bearing to have frequent
supplies of manure-water, aud to be regularly stopped and
trained. The water need for syringing or waterlog should
be exposed to the atmoepbere for some time before using,
and should here the chill taken off. Cold hard water lathe
cease of hundreds of plants dying off prematurely every year.