The Garden Under Glass

326 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS plants should be removed, especially those which are likely to require much water. Sub-laterals should be cut back to the first leaf, but in the case of grapes splitting it is well not to be too severe in this respect. Give a further topdressing to tomatoes ; cut back the leaves and expose the fruit to the ripening influence of the sun. Save the best-shaped fruits for seeds, setting them on a sunny shelf to become dead ripe, when the seeds may be extracted and Diagram 73.—July: 1. Stopping vines: a, growth stopped beyond bunch with laterals throwing out; b, lateral pinched back to first leaf; c, sub-lateral treated in similar manner. 2. Protecling peach-trees from ants : a, grease band lied round stem; b, cotton wool lied round the stem. 3. Cuttings and seedlings: a, heliotrope culting; b, put into small pot; c, seedling Stocks for winter flowering ; <7, strong seedling for pricking off. cleaned. July is the recognised month for securing the best layers of strawberries destined for forcing. As in-timated in the chapter devoted to this subject, I much prefer layering directly into the fruiting pots, using as a compost one barrowful of loam chopped to the size of a