Young plants that were shifted into their fruiting-pots three months ago will now have good hold of the fresh soil, and should be growing freely. With the stronger sunshine of midsummer and the full ventilation required, they will need much mure water, and should never be allowed to remain dry for any length of time, or they may get a check that will cause them to start into fruit. Consequently it is indispensably necessary that the soil be kept constantly moist; and every time they are watered, give them weak guano-water, not stronger than two ounces to the gallon, or just as much as well colours the water. The ventilation should now be carefully regulated, or with the rapid growth the plants ought to be making they may get drawn, and lack that sturdiness so desirable in all Pine-plants. Let the ventilation commence as soon as the thermometer rises to 75°, and increase until by eleven o'clock there is a free circulation of I air about the plants. Let the shutting up be done by degrees, closing the pits so that with sun the heat may touch 85° for a short time. Syringe the plants and damp the paths and walls at closing time, but do not carry syringing to excess, or the growth may be soft and watery from an accumulation of water at the axils of the leaves.

Just give sufficient tire-heat at night to prevent the temperature from falling below 65° in the early morning. If the pots are plunged in tan-bark and it has shrunk away from the pots, press it to their sides firmly. It the plants have been placed thickly together as a temporary arrangement, they should now be replungtd at 2 feet apart each way. The crowding of Pines thickly together is a great evil. An effort should be made to get plants intended to supply ripe fruit in autumn started by the end of the month; and provided they have been kept cool and dry, as directed in former Calendars, they are sure to come into fruit by applyiug moisture and increased warmth now. Let them have a bottom-heat of 90°, a night temperature of 70°, and a good watering; and if their roots are healthy, they will soon show fruit. Plants intended to supply fruit in winter should now be kept cool and dry for a month; and treated in the same way after that time, the result should be the same. Look over plants in fruit, and thin off all suckers not required for stock. Give ripening fruit a free circulation of dry warm air, but do not dry them off too severely at the roots. Fruit swelling off in various stages should be stimulated with liquid manure and a warm moist atmosphere.

Remove ripe fruit that it is desirable to keep in good condition for a week or two to a vinery where the fruit is ripe, and that is being kept cool and airy.