Handy Book of Fruit Culture Under Glass Author:David Thomson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1881 Original Publisher: W. Blackwood Subjects: Fruit-culture Greenhouse management Gardening / General Gardening / Flowers / General Gardening / Fruit Gardening / Garden Design Gardening / Greenhouses Gardening / Regional / General Gardening / Techniques ... more » Gardening / Vegetables Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: It is often found, in the case of those who have next to no experience in pine - culture, that young pines after they are shifted are kept far too wet. I have taken the soil out of the pots and squeezed the water out of it. No more fatal course can be pursued at any stage of their growth, but particularly in spring when newly shifted. SUCCESSION PLANTS SUMMER AND AUTUMN TREATMENT. Eaise the night temperature by the end of April to 70 when the weather is dull, but when the pineries can be shut up with sun-heat the thermometer may range to 75 at 10 P. m. with advantage, falling to 70 towards morning. With a proportionate amount of atmospheric moisture the plants will now begin to grow freely. The increase of light and sun-heat will render a less amount of fire-heat sufficient, and, as a general rule, the state of the weather admits of a more liberal supply of air being given. This enables the cultivator to push forward his early plants without the danger of drawing them, which exists at an earlier period of the year. In order to keep up the temperature with as little fire-heat as possible, air should be given early in the morning, almost as soon as the sun strikes the glass, and increased as formerly directed, so that the shutting up may take place at an earlier hour than is usual. This allows of the maximum temperature wh...« less