Figs.--Trees in pots to have their shoots stopped when they have made
three or four joints, and to be supplied occasionally with liquid
manure.
Melons.--The fruiting-beds to be prepared and in readiness for the
reception of the young plants as soon as they have nearly filled their
pots with roots.
Peaches.--If a house were started, as advised at the beginning of the
year, a second should now be set to work. Syringe the trees several
times a-day in clear weather, and once or twice in all weathers until
the flowers begin to expand. Attention to be given to the early house,
when the fruit is set, to thin it partially, but to leave one-third more
on the trees than will be required to ripen off. If Peaches are intended
to be grown in pots for next season, the maiden plants should now be
procured, and potted in nine or ten inch pots. The _Royal George_ Peach
and _Violette Hative_ Nectarine are the most eligible for that purpose.
Pines.--If any indications of the presence of worms appear on the
surface of the pots a watering with clear lime water will remove them.
The same steady temperature to be kept up in the fruiting-house or pit
as lately advised. Although it is sometimes recommended we would not
advise to withhold water at the roots for the purpose of starting them
into fruit; for if, by proper management, they are good, healthy plants,
they will have formed their fructiferous parts before this time, and
therefore should not be allowed to get dry, but be watered when they
require it with tepid water.
Vines.--The successional houses to be treated nearly in all respects
the same as the early houses; the temperature may now be increased in
accordance with the increase of light rather more rapidly at an early
stage of their growth than that of the house in which forcing was
commenced in December. When Vines for the early crops are grown in pots,
put the eyes in 60-sized pots, and plunge them in a dung-frame or pit,
with a bottom heat between 70 deg. and 80 deg.. The _Hamburghs_, _Black
Prince_, _Muscadine_, and _Sweetwater_ are the kinds to be preferred for
that purpose.