The Garden Under Glass

3i6 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS Maintain a drier atmosphere while they are flowering, and shake the rod briskly at noon to ensure a freer setting of fruit. A slight chink of air may be left on at night until flowering is over. Thin, stake and top-dress successive batches of strawberries. They may now be fed with soot- Diagram 70.—April: 1. Planting cucumbers: a, on mound in frame (the better way) or on flat (Æ). 2. Cyclamen removed from 3-inch to 5-inch pot. 3. Achimenes corm potted singly or severally in a pot. 4. Cuttings of coleus thyrsoideus: a, good cutting; l>, potted singly, or c, severally in pot; d, position on open staging. 5. Border carnation tied up to flowers inside. Others planted from frames to prepared ground. water and liquid cow manure until they begin to colour. Those which are ripening should be given a fairly airy situation, and when the fruit has been picked the plants may be hardened off and planted outside. Peaches must be disbudded if not already done, and after flowering of the vines they, with peaches and figs, should receive a good watering. Pot melons along so that they can be planted from 6-inch pots to the frames. Pot tomatoes