Cucumbers.--Although bright hot weather may prevail, it is advisable to
keep up a brisk, regular bottom as well as top heat. Strike cuttings of
choice sorts for winter bearing.
Melons.--The same as advised for _Cucumbers_, as they both delight in
plenty of heat to keep them healthy and in regular bearing. Give them
good soakings of weak manure water occasionally, and shut up early
on all fine days, sprinkling the sides of the pits or frames, and the
plants at times overhead. When watering the plants never allow any to
fall on the main stem. If gum, or canker, appears, apply lime to the
parts affected. Old plants cut back should be stimulated to grow freely.
Peaches.--Any tendency to premature decay in the leaves of those
from which the fruit has been all gathered to be arrested by liberal
waterings at the roots and by syringings.
Pines.--Keep up the temperature from 90 deg. to 95 deg. by day and from
70 deg. to 75 deg. by night, with plenty of moisture among the growing
plants and swelling fruit. Shift the successions as the roots fill the
pots.
Vines.--Uncover the house, or give all the air possible night and day as
soon as the Grapes are gathered, unless the wood is not fully ripened,
in that case the house should be closed in the afternoon at a good heat.
Stop the laterals on the later Vines, thin and tie up the bunches, and
maintain a steady, moist temperature, with plenty of air, but do not
syringe the bunches.