Figs.--Continue to stop all shoots when five or six joints long. Never
allow the trees in tubs, or pots, to want water; they now require daily
attention.
Melons.--Shade them during bright sunshine for a few hours in the middle
of the day. If the red spider appears, rub sulphur vivum, mixed with
water, on slates or tiles, and place them in the pit, or frame, where
the sun's rays may fall upon them.
Peaches.--Admit plenty of air when the fruit is ripe, or nearly so. When
the crop is gathered, give them a good washing with the syringe. Those
changing for ripening, if the trees are young and vigorous, to have a
general stopping of the strong shoots all over the higher parts of the
tree. To keep down red spider, it is advisable to wash the walls, pipes,
or flues, with sulphur vivum reduced to the consistency of paint; or to
paint some slates, tiles, or common saucers, with the mixture, and to
place them in different parts of the house, where the sun can shine upon
them.
Pines.--If the pot plants in fruit are in a healthy condition, well
furnished with roots, an occasional supply of clear manure water, in a
warm state, may be given with advantage to them.
Strawberries.--As it is necessary, by early attention, to ensure a
healthy, vigorous growth, therefore, as soon as the runners have emitted
the least portion of root, take them off, and prick them out on a rich
piece of ground, or on an old hotbed where Radishes or early Potatoes
have been grown under hoops, where, when the weather is hot, they are
more convenient to shade, and require less water.
Vines.--When the fruit is cut in the early houses, ripen the wood
by exposing it night and day, except during heavy rains. Water to be
gradually withheld as the growth of the plants declines, and somewhat in
the proportion in which you would have vegetation stop, not all at
once, but gradually. The Vines with fruit now stoning may be allowed to
produce a few redundant shoots if there is sufficient room to lay them
in without crowding, or overlapping the old wood, or shading the old
leaves. The late Grapes to be finally thinned, their shoulders to be
tied out, and every useless shoot to be removed. Keep the Vines in pots
trained, and exposed to light, and apply weak liquid manure frequently.